
Additional sources for this week’s tutorial:
http://www.seevibes.com/en/tv-audience-measurement-for-dummies-tv-ratings-101/
(from 2.55)
Additional sources for this week’s tutorial:
http://www.seevibes.com/en/tv-audience-measurement-for-dummies-tv-ratings-101/
(from 2.55)
The course is centred around two aims:
To examine strategies and campaigns to address global inequalities in media and information flows; and
To explore the rights and responsibilities of global media citizenship through case studies of media regulation, and citizens’ media initiatives.
It is a good idea to keep coming back to these ideas, and refer back to them as a touchstone throughout the semester, as you write your case studies, and plan out your activities for peer teaching. Ask yourself – how do the examples you have chosen relate back to these aims?
The digital divide – Broadband access in India. Watch this:
What did you learn from this?
How might it relate to the issue of the ‘digital divide’?
Have a look at this report on digital inclusion in Australia.
What makes you happy? Would you rate yourself as being happy?
Try this:
http://www.oprah.com/spirit/take-the-happiness-test-quiz_1
Denmark has it all figured out!
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/welcome-to-the-happiest-country-on-earth/
Do you think they have the balance right?
Focus questions:
– How has happiness become a business?
– how does happiness intersect with consumption?
Work Work Work Work Work Work
– What do you think of, when you think of work? (how does the idea of work shape society?)
Focus Questions:
– what is the cultural significance of work?
– how does technology enable work? What changes in work has it enabled?
– why is there not more resistance to work?
-what is the role of gender in relation to work?
– What is the protestant work ethic?
What do you expect/hope for from work?
Focus Questions:
Sexting:
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/nsw/2016/04/07/sexting-laws-in-nsw–criminalising-teens-.html
http://www.lawstuff.org.au/nsw_law/topics/Sexting
Porn in Public?
http://theconversation.com/youre-watching-that-here-the-politics-of-porn-in-public-8394
Protest or Porn or Empowerment? Pornification of Popular Culture
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-11/kim-kardashian-nude-selfies-and-empowerment/7310348
Art or Porn?
Playboy:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/18/playboy-nude-photos-bunny-gender-feminism
Other types of ‘porn’:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-03/young-inspiration-porn/4107006
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/04/what-food-porn-does-to-the-brain/390849/
Porn: Good for us?
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/28803/title/Porn–Good-for-us-/
Moral judgement about garbage?
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life/all-too-much-the-people-who-cant-let-go-20130809-2rnca.html
Cult of tidying?
Throwaway fashion?
Focus Questions:
– how is waste part of the moral economy?
– consider the paradox of waste in regards to consumer culture?
– what waste do we feel responsible for?
– how is waste an index of taste?
http://www.vulture.com/2015/10/30-best-pop-songs-about-telephone-drama.html#
(Turkle to 5.05)
Moral panic? https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wicked-deeds/201507/moral-panic-who-benefits-public-fear
The Attention Economy:
http://fortune.com/2015/08/12/attention-economy/
https://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2016/jul/06/attention-economy-demise-middle-ground
Extra Reading: Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto
Focus Questions:
-how does technology influence our understanding of time?
– how have mobile phones changed us as humans?