Friday 27 February 2015
Monday 9 February 2015
NDM 50
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/09/french-law-blocking-terrorist-and-child-abuse-sites-comes-into-effect
French law blocking terrorist and child abuse sites comes into effect
The legislation was brought in by revisions to 2011’s Loppsi Act, and an anti-terror bill passed by the French senate in October, but can now be used by the general directorate of the police’s cybercrime unit to force French internet service providers to block sites within 24 hours, without a court order.
French law blocking terrorist and child abuse sites comes into effect
- Costs incurred by the ISPs
- Sites that are blocked will redirect to a page from the interior ministry describing why the action was taken
- French internet service providers to block sites within 24 hours
- France has introduced a new law that allows government agencies to order the blocking of websites that advocate acts of terrorism or contain images of child abuse.
The legislation was brought in by revisions to 2011’s Loppsi Act, and an anti-terror bill passed by the French senate in October, but can now be used by the general directorate of the police’s cybercrime unit to force French internet service providers to block sites within 24 hours, without a court order.
Sites that are blocked will redirect to a page from the interior ministry describing why the action was taken. The sites will be checked quarterly to make sure they continue to display the proscribed content and that the block is still appropriate.
Blocking and filtering child abuse will prevent any major cases of paedophilia in the near future.
Post Feminist
1) Read Playing With The Past: Post-feminism and the Media (MM40, page 64 - our Media Magazine archive is here).
2) What are the two texts the article focuses on?
Male gaze and feminism.
3) What examples are provided from the two texts of the 'male gaze' (Mulvey)?
Beyonce's construction perfectly encapsulates the contradictions of post-feminist culture, simultaneously declaring herself as an independent woman, whilst objectifying herself for the camera and the ‘male gaze'.
4) Do texts such as these show there is no longer a need for feminism or are they simply sexism in a different form?
5) Choose three words/phrases from the glossary of the article and write their definitions on your blog.
2) What are the two texts the article focuses on?
Male gaze and feminism.
3) What examples are provided from the two texts of the 'male gaze' (Mulvey)?
Beyonce's construction perfectly encapsulates the contradictions of post-feminist culture, simultaneously declaring herself as an independent woman, whilst objectifying herself for the camera and the ‘male gaze'.
4) Do texts such as these show there is no longer a need for feminism or are they simply sexism in a different form?
5) Choose three words/phrases from the glossary of the article and write their definitions on your blog.
Post-feminism – Culture and society that society is somehow past needing feminism and that the attitudes and arguments of feminism are no longer needed.
Male Gaze – The gaze referring to Laura Mulvey’s seminal article ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ which argues that main stream Hollywood films subject female characters to the ‘male gaze’ of the camera, fragmenting and objectifying their bodies.
Nostalgia – A sentimental longing for the past, often only remembering the positives of the time.
No Page 3
1) Research the No More Page 3 campaign. Who started it and why?
Lucy Anne Holmes was the creator of the No Page 3 campaign quoting her "Most prominent photograph of a woman in the widest circulation British newspaper is of a young woman in just her pants" Her motive was to stop the campaign because she thinks its outdated. The sun first introduced it in the 1970s were the society they lived in was very sexist. Soft porn being sold to consumer via the most selling newspaper that children are exposed to.
2) What are the six reasons the campaign gives for why Page 3 has to go?
1) Outdated
2) Soft Porn
3) Not educational
4. Women disagree
5. Male dominant gender
6. Expansion for The Sun talk about rape and sexual offences etc..
3) Read this debate in the Guardian regarding whether the campaign should be dropped. What are Barbara Ellen and Susan Boniface's contrasting opinions in the debate?
4) How can the No More Page 3 campaign be linked to the idea of post-feminism?
Page 3 was introduced in a sexist society
5) What are your OWN views on the No More Page 3 campaign. Do you agree with the campaign's aims? Should the campaign continue?
Im for the no page 3 campaign. Campaign highlights that the Sun is being sexist against women, with The Sun announcing they will be removing the feature from their newspaper the never next day they reintroduced it back in. Showing the control The Sun has creating a publicity stunt to makes sense it portrays women as objects and degrades them,
No Page 3
1) Research the No More Page 3 campaign. Who started it and why?
Lucy Anne Holmes was the creator of the No Page 3 campaign quoting her "Most prominent photograph of a woman in the widest circulation British newspaper is of a young woman in just her pants" Her motive was to stop the campaign because she thinks its outdated. The sun first introduced it in the 1970s were the society they lived in was very sexist. Soft porn being sold to consumer via the most selling newspaper that children are exposed to.
2) What are the six reasons the campaign gives for why Page 3 has to go?
1) Outdated
2) Soft Porn
3) Not educational
4. Women disagree
5. Male dominant gender
6. Expansion for The Sun talk about rape and sexual offences etc..
3) Read this debate in the Guardian regarding whether the campaign should be dropped. What are Barbara Ellen and Susan Boniface's contrasting opinions in the debate?
4) How can the No More Page 3 campaign be linked to the idea of post-feminism?
Page 3 was introduced in a sexist society
5) What are your OWN views on the No More Page 3 campaign. Do you agree with the campaign's aims? Should the campaign continue?
Im for the no page 3 campaign. Campaign highlights that the Sun is being sexist against women, with The Sun announcing they will be removing the feature from their newspaper the never next day they reintroduced it back in. Showing the control The Sun has creating a publicity stunt to makes sense it portrays women as objects and degrades them,
NDM
1. 12/09/2014 - iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus have had record breaking sale figures
2. 13/09/2014 - ISIS release video showing execution of British hostage
3. 15/09/2014 - Minecraft sold: Microsoft buys Mojang for $2.5bn
4. 17/09/2014 - Sony Turnaround Effort Falters, Expects $2.15 Billion Yearly Loss
5. 18/09/2014 - iOS 8 causes bandwidth spikes nationwide, despite slow uptake
6. 21/09/2014 - Labour minimum wage promise would see £8 per hour rate by 2020
7. 22/09/2014 - Traffic halted on M25 as 13 'illegal immigrants' flee lorry
8. 22/09/2014 - Microsoft delays Chinese launch on Xbox one consoles
9. 28/09/2014 - Sam Pepper accused of sexual assault
10. 29/09/2014 - Islamic State crisis: Iraq air strikes 'halt IS advance'
11. 03/10/2014 - Celebrity victims of naked photo hack join together to sue Google $100M
12. 06/10/2014 - Microsoft gets $1bn in Android royalties from Samsung
2. 13/09/2014 - ISIS release video showing execution of British hostage
3. 15/09/2014 - Minecraft sold: Microsoft buys Mojang for $2.5bn
4. 17/09/2014 - Sony Turnaround Effort Falters, Expects $2.15 Billion Yearly Loss
5. 18/09/2014 - iOS 8 causes bandwidth spikes nationwide, despite slow uptake
6. 21/09/2014 - Labour minimum wage promise would see £8 per hour rate by 2020
7. 22/09/2014 - Traffic halted on M25 as 13 'illegal immigrants' flee lorry
8. 22/09/2014 - Microsoft delays Chinese launch on Xbox one consoles
9. 28/09/2014 - Sam Pepper accused of sexual assault
10. 29/09/2014 - Islamic State crisis: Iraq air strikes 'halt IS advance'
11. 03/10/2014 - Celebrity victims of naked photo hack join together to sue Google $100M
12. 06/10/2014 - Microsoft gets $1bn in Android royalties from Samsung
13. 06/10/2014 - Revenge pornography
14. 13/10/2014 - Apple's iPhone-based 'Pay' launches this week
15. 02/01/2012 - Snapchat Hack
16. 16/10/2014 - Netflix price increases hurt subscriber growth
17. 20/10/2014 - Google Search Engine
18. 20/10/2014 - Social Networking sites automatically' hand over Isis terrorists' data
19. 24/10/2014 - Facebook will now let you post anonymously
20. 03/11/2014 - Facebook sets up 'dark web' link to access network via Tor
21. 10/11/2014 - ITV under pressure to axe Dapper Laughs show over misogyny claims
22. 14/11/2014 - Twitter's debt assigned 'junk' status
23. 14/11/2014 - Phone and web data plan under fire for interfering with privacy
24. 17/11/2014 - Google Project Loon
25. 17/11/2014 - YouTube's Subscription Music Service
26. 21/11/2014 - Now e-cigarettes can give you malware
27. 08/12/2014 - UK set to be first country in which more than half of ad spend goes digital
28. 08/12/2014 - French journalism school executive accused of plagiarism
29. 08/12/2014 - YouTubers ads for Oreo banned for not making clear purpose of videos
30. 05/01/2014 - North Korea responds with fury to US sanctions over Sony hack
31. 25/12/2014 - Lizard Squad DDOS Sony Microsoft
32. 05/01/2014 - Apple faces lawsuit over storage space on iPhones and iPads
33. 05/01/2014 - Study claims more than 80% of 'dark net' traffic is to child abuse sites
34. 05/01/2014 - Driverless cars to be tested in UK
35. 05/01/2015 - Microsoft Nokia 215
36. 05/01/2015 - Mark Zuckerberg starts online book club, sells out Amazon
37. 05/01/2015 - Streaming: the future of the music industry, or its nightmare?
38. 05/01/2015 - Superman ‘ecstasy’ pill deaths are result of ‘illogical and punitive drugs policy’
14. 13/10/2014 - Apple's iPhone-based 'Pay' launches this week
15. 02/01/2012 - Snapchat Hack
16. 16/10/2014 - Netflix price increases hurt subscriber growth
17. 20/10/2014 - Google Search Engine
18. 20/10/2014 - Social Networking sites automatically' hand over Isis terrorists' data
19. 24/10/2014 - Facebook will now let you post anonymously
20. 03/11/2014 - Facebook sets up 'dark web' link to access network via Tor
21. 10/11/2014 - ITV under pressure to axe Dapper Laughs show over misogyny claims
22. 14/11/2014 - Twitter's debt assigned 'junk' status
23. 14/11/2014 - Phone and web data plan under fire for interfering with privacy
24. 17/11/2014 - Google Project Loon
25. 17/11/2014 - YouTube's Subscription Music Service
26. 21/11/2014 - Now e-cigarettes can give you malware
27. 08/12/2014 - UK set to be first country in which more than half of ad spend goes digital
28. 08/12/2014 - French journalism school executive accused of plagiarism
29. 08/12/2014 - YouTubers ads for Oreo banned for not making clear purpose of videos
30. 05/01/2014 - North Korea responds with fury to US sanctions over Sony hack
31. 25/12/2014 - Lizard Squad DDOS Sony Microsoft
32. 05/01/2014 - Apple faces lawsuit over storage space on iPhones and iPads
33. 05/01/2014 - Study claims more than 80% of 'dark net' traffic is to child abuse sites
34. 05/01/2014 - Driverless cars to be tested in UK
35. 05/01/2015 - Microsoft Nokia 215
36. 05/01/2015 - Mark Zuckerberg starts online book club, sells out Amazon
37. 05/01/2015 - Streaming: the future of the music industry, or its nightmare?
38. 05/01/2015 - Superman ‘ecstasy’ pill deaths are result of ‘illogical and punitive drugs policy’
39. 09/02/2015 - Windows 10: Ambitious But Realistic
40. 09/02/2015 - How social networking is changing journalism
41. 09/02/2015 - Spain moves to protect domestic media with new 'Google tax'
42. 09/02/2015 - Does the Sun really speak to more people than Russell Brand?
43. 09/02/2015 - Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook censorship despite Charlie Hebdo support
44. 09/02/2015 - YouTubers ads for Oreo banned for not making clear purpose of videos
45. 09/02/2015 - BuzzFeed launches its own 'public chat' channel in messaging app Viber
46. 09/02/2015 - Who, What, Why: How does Google's Autocomplete censor predictions?
47. 09/02/2015 - Revenge porn victims’ helpline launched in UK
40. 09/02/2015 - How social networking is changing journalism
41. 09/02/2015 - Spain moves to protect domestic media with new 'Google tax'
42. 09/02/2015 - Does the Sun really speak to more people than Russell Brand?
43. 09/02/2015 - Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook censorship despite Charlie Hebdo support
44. 09/02/2015 - YouTubers ads for Oreo banned for not making clear purpose of videos
45. 09/02/2015 - BuzzFeed launches its own 'public chat' channel in messaging app Viber
46. 09/02/2015 - Who, What, Why: How does Google's Autocomplete censor predictions?
47. 09/02/2015 - Revenge porn victims’ helpline launched in UK
48. 09/02/2015 - Google Maps: a decade of transforming the mapping landscape
49. 09/02/2015 - Snapchat
50. 09/02/2015 - French law blocking terrorist and child abuse sites comes into effect
50. 09/02/2015 - French law blocking terrorist and child abuse sites comes into effect
NDM 49
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-31294752
Snapchat selfie unmasked Pittsburgh killer, police say
The suspect used Snapchat - an app that auto-deletes content after a few seconds - to send an image to a friend.
Snapchat selfie unmasked Pittsburgh killer, police say
- Maxwell Marion Morton, 16
- Auto-deletes content after a few seconds - to send an image to a friend
- 16-year-old Ryan Mangan, was a classmate of Maxwell Marion Morton
- Users are alerted when someone takes a screen capture of a message.
The suspect used Snapchat - an app that auto-deletes content after a few seconds - to send an image to a friend.
The friend took a screenshot and his mother contacted police. Prosecutors said the Snapchat was "key evidence".
"[Police] received a copy of the photo which depicted the victim sitting in the chair with a gunshot wound to the face," a police affidavit states, according to The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
"It also depicts a black male taking the 'selfie,' with his face facing the camera and the victim behind the actor. The photo had the name 'Maxwell' across the top."
NDM 48
Google Maps: a decade of transforming the mapping landscape
- World wide web supported the first online maps in 1993
- In 2004, Danish brothers Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen went to Google with an idea for a web app that would not only display static maps
- 50 people set out building Google Maps
- Google Maps launched in the US on 8 February 2005
- 2005 Google launched driving and public transport directions
Google Maps didn’t stand still. Later in 2005 Google launched driving and public transport directions, but it wasn’t until the launch of satellite imagery that Hanke saw how committed Google was to the project.
Googles maps have always been unreliable in my eyes. John Hanke, co-founder of Keyhole and vice president of Google’s geospatial division until 2011 told the Guardian. Google’s co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, he said, thought that geospatial – data and information related to maps and location services - was a key element of Google’s organising the world’s information.
NDM 47
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/08/revenge-porn-victims-helpline-launched
Revenge porn victims’ helpline launched in UK
The revenge porn helpline will work with police and websites to try and get non-consensual explicit photos removed and provide victims with help about how to get free legal advice. It will work with other services, such as Women’s Aid, the Stalking Helpline or Relate, so that victims know where they can turn if they need more help.
I think personally revenge porn helplines will recover some of the damage dealt by these videos and images posted online. Something that should have been in place along time ago, many people who have suffered from revenge porn have often lead to suicidal acts.
Revenge porn victims’ helpline launched in UK
- Can affect people as young as 11
- A helpline for victims of revenge porn has been launched as part of a concerted push to tackle the growing problem of explicit photographs being shared online without the victim’s consent.
- Hundreds of sites dedicated to non-consensual porn throughout the world
- 30 sites “specialised” in revenge porn content used in the UK alone.
- 43 UK police forces were asked for details of reported incidents of revenge pornography between 1 January 2012 and 1 July 2014
The revenge porn helpline will work with police and websites to try and get non-consensual explicit photos removed and provide victims with help about how to get free legal advice. It will work with other services, such as Women’s Aid, the Stalking Helpline or Relate, so that victims know where they can turn if they need more help.I think personally revenge porn helplines will recover some of the damage dealt by these videos and images posted online. Something that should have been in place along time ago, many people who have suffered from revenge porn have often lead to suicidal acts.
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Friday 6 February 2015
Yasmin
The clip does offers a partly negative representations it shows one of the characters being very uncivilized where he is eating peanut butter directly out of the jar and also his dirty clothing. Similarly the clear disrespect shown by the main character towards her religion can provide a negative representation of Muslims as she takes off her hijab.
In contrast it can be argued that the main character provides us with a very identifiable character as she tries to break free from her religious barriers and be a part of western society.
Fanon
Bend it like beckham
East is East
24
Anuvahood
Mandem on the wall
NDM 46
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31131920
Who, What, Why: How does Google's Autocomplete censor predictions?
Predictions are based upon various factors, these include location, general search preferences) e (popluar searches). Isis is known as a highly effective user of social media, including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, with which it spreads its messages and disseminates pictures videos, encouraging its followers to do the same.
I think that the removal of this autocomplete prediction is a good move by Google but should have censored it in good time so the people wanting to join ISIS would be much lower. Google have influenced and partial to blame for the ISIS attacks due to the promotion of how to join the Islamic group. Think they should take this as a warning to block any other related searches like terror attacks like YouTube have done.
Who, What, Why: How does Google's Autocomplete censor predictions?
- Recruited more than 1,000 people from the UK to fight for it.
- But Google, alerted to the Autocomplete options by the BBC, had by 1030 GMT removed "isis" as one of the suggestions
- The fourth suggestion was "isis".
Predictions are based upon various factors, these include location, general search preferences) e (popluar searches). Isis is known as a highly effective user of social media, including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, with which it spreads its messages and disseminates pictures videos, encouraging its followers to do the same. I think that the removal of this autocomplete prediction is a good move by Google but should have censored it in good time so the people wanting to join ISIS would be much lower. Google have influenced and partial to blame for the ISIS attacks due to the promotion of how to join the Islamic group. Think they should take this as a warning to block any other related searches like terror attacks like YouTube have done.
Monday 2 February 2015
1) Read the excellent article exploring the different representations of black people in British film and TV from Media Magazine 42 (MM42 from our Media Magazine archive - page 51)
2) List FIVE films, FIVE TV programmes and FIVE online-only productions that are discussed in the article.
Films:
3) Watch Destiny Ekaragha's clips above (more of her work is available on her website, including the short film The Park). To what extent can we apply Alvarado's and Fanon's theories to these films? Do they reinforce or subvert typical black stereotypes in British film and TV? Refer to specific scenes and events in the clips in answering this question and aim for at least 350 words.
Black people are stereotyped in some sense to be dangerous in the film The Park, when 2 white men walked past the group of blacks on the wall they came across to be very negative and threatening commenting on the way he looks. May not be directly dangerous but has an obvious representation that theyre can be violent if they wanted to.
Also theyre seemed to be
2) List FIVE films, FIVE TV programmes and FIVE online-only productions that are discussed in the article.
Films:
- Bullet Boy
- AnuvaHood
- Shank
- Sket
- Ill Manors
- Slumdog millionaire
TV:
- 55 degrees north
- Luther
- Line of duty
- The Kumars at 42
- Goodness gracious me
- Citizen Khan
Online Only:
- Brother with no game
- Venus vs Mars
- The Ryan sisters
- All about the McKenzies
- Meet the adebanjos
- The crouches
Black people are stereotyped in some sense to be dangerous in the film The Park, when 2 white men walked past the group of blacks on the wall they came across to be very negative and threatening commenting on the way he looks. May not be directly dangerous but has an obvious representation that theyre can be violent if they wanted to.
Also theyre seemed to be
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