Reflection on Media Culture class

Despite its name, Media Culture can be quite an enjoyable class. The course teaches us to look deeper into matters and, especially, to understand better the power of media. I'm not sure about the importance of this class as a core subject, perhaps it is way too specific and there is little to learn despite the long hours of class; it's the same method taught over and over again- the ability to explain our thoughts, to understand ourselves and the power of media, as well as to find our own words to stand up for our beliefs. I think the class has been repetitively teaching these skill sets. Not that I have a problem with it- other subjects has been way too intense and this was good off the hook as a more relaxing subject.

Unlike others, I managed to keep up with Mr. Yap Sau Bin's lectures from the first class and I actually find his lectures interesting. Although I did not understand the question very well and I've only learned it when Mr. Yap Sau Bin gave a more thorough example of what should be in the report when we've finally sent it... I guess that's the only downside to it. Obviously, I would choose Assignment 2 over Assignment 1 because of this. Also, the fact that Assignment 2 was broken into three questions week by week and the short post requirement makes it way easier and preferable compared to Assignment 1.

All in all, this subject has been quite an interesting journey. Thank you Mr. Yap Sau Bin and Ms. Helena for being so kind to us and devoting yourselves so passionately in teaching this subject.

Reflection on media culture class

When I first enter the class, it feels like usual, nothing interesting much. But after we are having the first lecture session, I found it is actually fun the way how the lecturer teach us, especially Mr. Yap Sau
Bin. Although sometimes, his story confuses me.. but I actually enjoy. For Mdm Helena, she would always keep the lecture simple and easy to understand. 

For the 1st assignment, I DON'T really like it since I don't really enjoy writing a long essay. I don't know why but it is hard for me to get and write the points into the essay. But for the 2nd assignment, I REALLY like it. Blogging makes me feel as if you are not actually doing assignment... Like normal people blogging everyday and it is easy for me to write what I want according to the assignment.

For the overall class, I REALLY enjoy it. I learned a lot about our society from this class and I love watching the movie during the lecture session. It is quite sad that the class is going to an end. I thank you to both my lecturer for giving us the guide and information while we are doing assignment! I hope to meet them in another class. (HOPEFULLY) 8D!

MEDIA CULTURE CLASS THIS TRIMESTER....

Ooohhh, You want to know my opinion about this course?

for the first three weeks, I was trying to give out my focus 100% to what Mr. Yap Sau Bin lecture in front of the class. 

Yeayyy.. 100% auto-focus.

My first impression about this class is we all gonna learn about the cultures like Kadazan and Murut. While the media in 'Media Culture" stands for their cultural stuff as the dances, songs their language and others. 

After a while, i've found out that this class is about the media culture in our society nowaday. Anyway i've defined my personal definition of media culture in the report submitted not so long ago.. 

The next three weeks, the enjoyable parts started. We started to understand that media culture is a part of our life. The best is when we started to use E-theatre as our lecture class, so comfortable, relaxing and sometime we can sleep, Lol.

The next three weeks, we turned out to be more serious as Mr Yap Sau Bin bought a Sarawak documentary producer to show us something. That day, we knew the dark side of the media culture in Malaysia.

Mdm Helena, i think she is so kind while lecturing us.. She lecture our lesson straigh to the point, unlike mr Yap Sau Bin. He usually will walks around and tell us some stories first.

And now, the class is almost over, I shall miss this relaxing class...

 

Internet Regulations and Censorship by Athirah Azhar

Who regulates the internet? 

For me I think there is no specific organization or person that regulates the internet because everyone is free using the internet anywhere and anyhow they want. But there are some organizations that took steps to deal with this new frontier like FCC. 


Do you think there should be internet censorship? Why? 

Im sorry for sharing this video but for me it is a good example why there should be internet censorship. As we all know that internet are being used by people of all ages. Ask yourself "is this appropriate for the youngsters under 18 years old to watch. Even for us it isn't appropriate to watch something that can make someone's reputations gone bad. This may not jest be in the pornographic aspect but in general in keeping the ring way of using the internet. (=^-^=)y

Who regulates the internet? 

Internet regulator? Mmmm.. I think the SOPA and the PIPA and ACTA regulate the world wide internet network, but I dont think we have an internet regulator in our country, Malaysia. The only body that exist in Malaysia that control (but not entirely) the internet issues in Malaysia is SKMM ( Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia ). But, they not filter what we did to the internet, they just react to the cyber-criminal only.

Do you think there should be internet censorship? Why? 

Internet censorship,  i think internet censorship is relevant and not relevant! I know maybe some of us can do bad thing on the internet. Still, it is individual independence to decide on what they are doing. Maybe malaysia should do like this, before we connect to the internet, they should ask for the IC number first. That is because I think the internet should use censorship to avoid under-18 kids to explore bad stuff that is not relevant to their age. It will be bad if the internet influenced the kid with bad thing that resulting in negative social living and bad attitude development.  

Dirty Harry? LOL

lm sure you've heard about the Naked-Harry. 

lt was trending few weeks ago. Why they dont censor it away, it is such a humiliation for the royal family.. well, he is a public figure. We all want to know about him, but still, why dont they censor it away from the internet?!

Source:

 http://www.skmm.gov.my/index.php?c=public&v=main

http://www.marginlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Prince-Harry-Meme.jpg

http://mashable.com/2012/01/26/acta-more-dangerous-than-sopa/

Topic Discussion 3: Who regulates the internet? Personally, do you think there should be internet censorship? Why?

Who regulates the internet?

http://hallcrossmedia.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/internet-censorship.jpg%3Fw%3D640

From the reading resource that I got, each contry has regulated the internet by their own based on the laws that they have but there are some resource says that the goverment US regulated the internet and some information state that no one regulated the internet.

Personally, do you think there should be internet censorship? Why?

https://ict4bop.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/internetcensorship061208.gif

For my opinion, there should be internet censorship because for example nowday there are to many thing that we did't even need to know and see have in the internet. When this thing happend, we refer back who are the user and audience of the internet. There are not only adult but also teenager and child that using internet and this thing will effect them. What if they make that bad thing as their example for their life?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071221080206AAoxP8B

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Topic Discussion 3

Who regulates the internet? Personally, do you think there should be internet censorship? Why?

Who regulates the internet?
No one regulates the internet, which mean there is no specific entity who regulates the internet. Internet can be use by everyone and they regulates on their own by posting and downloading a stuff.

Personally, do you think there should be internet censorship? Why?
Yes. I think there should be internet censorship because internet not really safe and there's alot of crime case that can we see through the news on television and newspaper about the internet crimes. 

By putting censorship it can also protect children online from being exposed to harmful material found on the internet, which is to avoid them from open a things that not suitable with their ages. 






Just like Prince Harry case on his nude pictures, I think that this kind of thing should not happen to him because he is a part of royal family which an example for people observation. But I hope this can be a lessons to all people for not to trusting the internet by posting something too personal for audience to watch. Hopefully he become more careful about what he's doing now.

References:
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/owns.html
http://law.freeadvice.com/intellectual_property/communications_law/internet_regulation_law.htm
http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=11338
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/26/rupert-murdoch-defends-sun-prince-harry-pictures


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Topic 3: Internet Regulation and Censorship

Who regulates the internet?

Different countries have different regulators, most of which are government act in order to stop its users from the access of political content. The only country that succeeds in governing the internet is China. A proof of this is the internet censorship that has been going on for years now.

Because each country has their own regulators, all of which do not belong to a single company, the best conclusion is that no one regulates the internet. Even the World Wide Web Consortium are made up of several companies.

A lot of act has been proposed as the US government's attempt to take control of the internet; SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA, all of which had been strongly opposed.

Personally, do you think there should be internet censorship? Why?

Yes, I believe there should be internet censorship to some extent. However, as adults, it would be a shame if they do not possess the knowledge of these so-called illegal contents. What I'm trying to say is, there are things kids do not need to know until they grow up. A while ago, I watched a video of a whole village reporting the discovery of a huge mushroom which turned out to be... well, something else.

Among one of the episodes from the TV series Law & Order, one of them was about a child who raped his own classmate. All it took to save him from severe punishment was by claiming he was a victim of media influence. Now this is a very good example of why there should be internet censorship; it influences children to do things that are prohibited to their age.

Besides that, issues about the power of internet has only come to a wider range of attention after the naked picture of a member of the royal family was distributed. Obviously, this damages the royal family reputation. But I'd like to think that should be a different case; a case of which it is against the privacy policies that is directed to the people responsible.


References:
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/owns.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China
http://www.tv.com/shows/law-order/episodes/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpHagyl_VZs

Topic Discussion3: Who regulates the internet? Personally, do you think there should be internet censorship? Why?

Is there someone who regulates the internet? Some said yes, some said no. This debate on who regulates the internet have been going on until today. Basicly there is no one regulates the internet.. Although there are few group of society that actually try to do the work. For example, Internet society, InterNic and few more.
(source: http://websearch.about.com/od/whatistheinternet/a/internetrules.htm )

I think that there should be internet censorship. Why? It is for the sake of the young children. Today, most children don't really go on the computer and play the card games or paint. I know because I have a younger brother and I have seen him got on to the internet to play online games or search images for his school works. What I am worry about is when he want to search for images, some naked pictures might accidently appear on the search result.This will make him being all curious on what that picture is about and innocently click on it to view it. 

Image source: http://world.time.com/2012/08/23/prince-harry-the-butt-of-jokes-raises-serious-issues-for-britains-media/

For the Prince Harry issues, The newspaper company blamed the internet for having no censorship and having widespread of images, thus, used the picture of  Prince Harry to  promote back their newspaper.

(information source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/26/rupert-murdoch-defends-sun-prince-harry-pictures)

Who Regulates the Internet?

Who Regulates the Internet?

There is no one who regulates the Internet. Internet is like a Wikipedia which we can post up information, upload pictures and also can be edited. But Internet Service Providers (ISP) has been given a responsibility to monitor and regulate the content that has been published to the Internet. Besides that, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will track the ISP whether they are doing their works in order to make sure the content is not too over.

Regarding the Prince Harry's naked issue, there should be a censorship because Prince Harry is one of the Royal Family. But what 'The Sun' newspaper trying to say behind the naked pictures that has been printed is the ISP and FCC need to give more attention on the Internet Regulation. My opinion, they need to censor all the unnecessary things on the Internet especially the naked, porno n etc. Its not good for children and teenagers below 18 years old. They really didn't understand what it is about. So, don't spoil their brain with a dirty things. Parents also should keep on eye of what their children doing on the Internet. Don't let them online without your concern.

Besides that, if the ISP and FCC still want to put the negative things on the Internet, please make sure that the website or page is really in secure where a password is needed to continue browse that website.

FARAH WAHIDA BT. MOHAMAD ZAKIR  1102703423

TOPIC DISCUSSION 3 - Who regulates the internet? Do you think there should be internet censorship? Why?

(Question mark by Marco Bellucci)

Who regulates the internet? From the resources that I found, it says that the TCP/IP protocol on which all Internet protocols are based is not patented and can be implemented by anyone. It can also continue to operate without any one central system in charge .The short answer is no one regulates the internet.

Personally, there are pro and con about whether the Internet should be censored. From my point of view, the pro is it is too easy for children to access pornographic material. Since there are so many adult sites are readily accessible to children. A child could innocently click on it. The con is parents should know what they need to do, to prevent their children can access that kind of site (porno). There’s lots of software to block offensive sites, so parents can install the software. Internet censorship already exists, just Google "internet filter" and look at the variety of private software which do this for you without government intervention.There’s lots of software to block offensive sites, so parents can install the software,just google it.

Another reasons is, about First Amendment right to free speech (as it should fall under the freedom of the press and freedom of speech). Freedom of expression is one of the fundamental human rights ensured us by the Constitution (Perlembagaan). Anyone should be allowed to post whatever they want (self control), as part of their rights for freedom of speech and freedom of the press but we can stop the communication of material which it is illegal to possess.

In Prince Harry naked pictures case, the tabloid newspaper has chosen to publish the nude pictures because the issue has become one of "The freedom of the Press". The Sun has become the first British newspaper to publish images of a naked Prince Harry at a Las Vegas party.

“For us this is the part of the freedom of the press. The picture can be seen by the hundreds millions of people around the world on the internet” – The Sun Boss

(Long version)

http://article.wn.com/view/2012/08/24/John_OFarrell_The_internet_rushes_in_where_the_tabloids_now_/

In conclusion, there are pro and con about whether the Internet should be censored just like what I said . Then, we just have to control ourselves to not post or make communication of material which it is illegal to possess.

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