Friday, 13 March 2015
Sunday, 8 February 2015
Gamer raided by Swat team in front of 60,000 viewers
Title: Gamer raided by Swat team in front of 60,000 viewers
Summary:
Air Force veteran, Joshua Peters, was targeted by
anonymous attackers in the middle of a Twitch stream of the browser game
Runescape. The veteran was confronted by 10 armed SWAT team members where they
had arrived at the veteran’s house and was in shock.
Facts/Phrases:
Ø Before
ending the show, the streamer turned back to the audience, and addressed his
attacker. “I see you posting my address. I had police point a gun at my little
brothers because of you. They could have been shot, they could have died.
Because you chose to swat my stream. I don’t give a shit about what you have
against me, or what I did to you. For that I am at a loss for words. Your gripe
is with me. But do not involve my family in this. They don’t deserve it.”
Opinion:
In my opinion, this was caused by
the development of New and digital media; this is because the rise has
introduced newer crimes and forms to which crimes can be committed and since the
attackers had attempted it again it was a personal vendetta.
The mobile phone emoticons that could wipe the smile off your face :-(
Title: The mobile phone emoticons that could wipe the smile
off your face :-(
Summary:
This article is about how Users
of some older smartphones including those from Samsung and reportedly
Apple and HTC are finding that when they send a text message that includes a
smiley face or other emoticon, the handset converts the SMS to a picture
message.
Facts/Phrases:
Ø “The
problem is that MMS is stuck in a time warp,” said Ernest Doku, a telecoms
expert at uswitch.com. “You have now got lots of data-driven services, such as WhatsApp,
where people can send messages that are as long as they like with low charges.
Ø Britain’s
biggest network, EE, charges 40p for an MMS, compared with 12p for a standard
text. Three charges 31p for an MMS and 2p for an SMS on its pay-as-you-go
tariff.
Ø The
case of a woman who racked up a £1,200 bill over four months through the use of
emoticons in texts.
Ø In
a recent survey into unexpectedly high bills the watchdog found that 4% of the
5,700 people surveyed said they had received a high bill caused by unexpected
charges for emoticons.
Opinion:
In conclusion, this a very intriguing article as it shows
how even new and digital media can backfire, and fall flat on its face causing
issues with sending simple emoji’s on an SMS. That fact that phones can rack up
$1,200 bill just by doing something simple.
Thursday, 5 February 2015
Post Colonialism Theory- TASK
In this scene, a black man is being pranked however, the way he looks is dangerous and what he does is attempts to punch a guy in the face. This shows he is Dangerous from Alvarado's theory.
This scene demonstrates how black men are humorous as he is smoking a joint, completely out of his mind, and randomly saying "Wazzup!", this is according to Alvarado's theory.
This is a music video where several women, mostly black, have large cleavage and have large asses, and are twerking, this links to Alvarado's theory as he had stated that black people are represented as exotic.
This is an advert about donating money in order to save children in Africa, and they utilise black children in order to look cute and touch the hearts of people to donate money. In accordance to Frantz Fanon's theory the representation is Infantalized.
This video is footage of Black people being violent on buses and it primitivizes them as it portrays them as fighting animals, that will spark up out of control for dominance and other domination characteristics.
This video is footage of 6 black men jumping a white couple, this shows who decivilized they are- in accordance to Fanon's theory.
Post-Colonialism Task
1)
Alvarado
Alvarado’s theory of
post-colonialism, suggests that there are 4 racial representations of minority
groups. The representations are:
1) Pitied
- looked down upon
2) Exotic
- groups from a good and rich culture
3) Dangerous
– groups that appear as a threat and can cause harm
4) Humorous
– an image that is created for the amusement of the white
Frantz Fanon
Fanon came up with the quote “black
skin, white mask”, this means black people would put on white masks in order to
become like the White man and mock them. Also Fanon had realized that the
majority of black youths. He came up with four ways of stereotyping them:
Ø Infantilize-
portray them as children, small and cute, for example using them in Aid
commercials.
Ø Primitivize- the exotic tribal warriors or ‘bare
breasted maidens’ with a natural sense of rhythm.
Ø Decivilize- The ‘gangster’ pimp.
Ø Essentialize-
Clumping the group together, undifferentiating them.
Edward Said’s Orientalism
Said argued that the west- in
particular colonising Europe- constructed a meaning of the East (Middle East )
that suggested it was different, dangerous and uncivilised.
West v/s East = Civilised v/s
uncivilised =superior v/s inferior
2)
Does it
offer a positive or negative view of British Muslims? To what extent does it
reinforce or challenge Edward Said's theory of Orientalism - that the west is
superior to the exotic or uncivilised east?
Yasmin offers both a positive and
negative view of Muslims. Positive as the beginning shows the boy singing in
his language and shows them as peaceful, minding their own business, but when
the white locals begin to move away they are presented as a nuisance, which
show negativity and that they aren’t very helpful but annoying. Also, the facts
that the elderly man is cleaning “Paki, Go Home” off the shutter shows them as
docile and calm, as well as refusing to retaliate at the fact that they are
unwelcome there. To a major degree, the theory of Orientalism, that the west is
superior to the exotic/uncivilised east as the woman is changing from her religious
clothes in a field, which is an insult in itself as women in the Islamic community
are supposed to keep their bodies covered, furthermore the women is changing in
to western clothes, meaning jeans and a t-shirt.
Sunday, 1 February 2015
YouTube staff too swamped to filter out all terror-related content
Title: YouTube staff too swamped to filter out all
terror-related content
Summary:
This article is about how the volume
of content regularly uploaded to YouTube makes it tough for the
video-sharing website to catch all terror-related content, and how it is
different for nudity for certain videos depending on its content.
Fact/Phrases:
Ø About
300 hours of video material is being uploaded to YouTube every minute, said Google policy
manager Verity Harding, who stated: “To pre-screen those videos before they are
uploaded would be like screening a phone call before it’s made.”
Ø When
a Scotland Yard unit recently told Google about material that did not comply
with the company’s own guidelines, de Kerchove said 93% of that content was
removed. But when individuals flag up problems only a third of it is taken
down.
Ø “YouTube
has clear policies that prohibit content like gratuitous violence, hate speech
and incitement to commit violent acts, and we remove videos violating these
policies when flagged by our users.”
Opinion:
In my opinion, this article highlights censorship and how
important it is in terms of protecting sensitive audiences from harmful content,
like porn and the beheadings.
Google Glass is on a strategic 'reset' and eight other things we learned
Title: Google Glass is on a strategic 'reset' and eight
other things we learned
Summary:
This article is about Google glass
and 8 stories that have come up in the past week. Google glass is being reset
and going further in to RND for further development. The next story is about
how Facebook was trumpeting its video growth and hitting the 1bn daily video
views milestone. The third story is about the growth of YouTube partners
and partners increasing by 50%. The fourth story is about the super bowl
commercial. The fifth story is about how Google Play and YouTube drove the
majority of those sales for the success of the film the interview. The sixth
story is about how mobiles have become behaviour rather than just a device. The
seventh story is about how Google Play and YouTube drove the majority of
those sales. The eighth story is about how Google is now getting into the
money transfer game in the UK.
Facts/Phrases:
Ø Cast
in the light of $4.76bn (£3.16bn) in fourth-quarter profits, up nearly 30%
year-on-year, missing Wall Street expectations doesn’t seem so bad.
Ø Google
blamed the strength of the dollar for a lot of it, saying revenues would have
been $541m greater if the exchange rate had been more favourable.
Ø It
has been publicly reported that the film generated over $15m in its first
weekend, and that Google Play and YouTube drove the majority of those sales.”
Ø Google
didn’t give any updated sales figures for its Chromecast device beyond saying
that last week “we saw our one billionth tap of the ‘Cast’ button”, and that
“usage per device” has increased by 60% since it launched, thanks to new apps
and features.
Opinion:
In my opinion, the fact that
Google glass is being unsuccessful and being sent right back to the research and
development division is ironic of its future heading right back to the bottom
which is similar to the fall of News Corp. Google is still flailing to survive
as the dominant conglomerate as its began to enter the money transfer industry,
but the simple matter of the fact is that its only one way Google is heading
and that is down.
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