For my regulation NEA I am going to make 2/3 flyers based about the freedom of what you can post on the internet. The flyers will be portrait and A4. They will be based around any age or gender. My idea will suggest that you should be able to post whatever you want on the internet without the restriction of the government. I am going to use examples of suppression with social media’s such as Reddit, Twitter and Google. The main pinpoint of my flyer though is to show the history of freedom on these social media’s and highlight why its so important. I am going to base my flyers off these campaign designs. The flyers will be very libertarianism compared to authoritarian, meaning it is for freedom rather than controlling
For my flyers which is pro-freedom I will have a divide of information flourishing with bright colours to represent a sense of happiness and freedom on one side and another of corruption on the other side with much darker colours to represent depression and unhappiness. For the strapline I am going to say “Its your choice” to reinforce the freedom to pick what you want which can Gratify the audience using Uses and Gratification. I am going to add a hashtag called #freespeechforall will be created in the process.
Libertinism – Where people believe in freedom at the expense of structure. Authoritarianism – Where people believe in structure at the expense of freedom. Hedonism – Seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. Exchanging please for pain if that pleasure isn’t easily accessible then that pain will be greater. Epicurism talks about happiness and is made up of 3 key factors, the first being that you should strive away from sexual fantasies, the next being that you should all live together with your friends and the third being that you should not spoil yourself with luxuries and find small jobs to do with other people. The Frankfurt school – A school which Theodor Adorno participated in where he was forced to move out of Germany due to the war happening at the time 1930 – 1960 and moved to America where he studied
Focus
Specifics
Why regulate?
protection of children criminal activity health and safety good working practices privacy libel / slander / defamation of character Ethics, Morals and Code of Conduct
Rooney v Vardy, Depp v Heard
What gets regulated?
Film Advertising Television Music Video Games Internet Books Newspapers Radio The News Magazines Cartoons / animations
BBC, Instagram, Facebook, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Newspaper regulation),
Who regulates what?
Government (overall ?) BBFC (cinema) Ofcom Individuals (?) Groups (?) Bodies (?)
Ofcom is the regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries. Mechanical Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) – they oversee the collection of royalties for album and single sales, both in physical formats and digital downloads and pay these to the bands and artists. PEGI (regulates games)
How will regulation be put in place?
copyright rating system
Performing Rights Society (PRS) – a society of songwriters, composers and music publishers. (music) Classifications currently in use are Uc, U, PG, 12, 12A, 15, 18 and R18 (BBFC)
In this theory, Todorov mentioned that there are 5 stages that a character will go through; those are Equilibrium, Disruption, Recognition Repair the Damage and Equilibrium Again. There are a lot of works that has been implementing this narrative structure in the story.
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Steve Neale:
Neale believes that films of a type (genre, like romance or horror) should include features that are similar, so the audience know it is a horror film or romance, but also include features that are different, to keep an audience interested. This is his theory of repetition and difference. Genre is something that is constantly changing.
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David Hesmondhalgh:
Most products are consumed when used and have to be bought again, but media products are bought once and continually used – they never wear out.
Cultural industries: Film, television, radio, music, books and press
Creative industries: Design, architecture and advertising.
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Vladimir Propp:
Vladimir Propp was a folklorist researcher interested in the relationship between characters and narrative . Propp argued that stories are character driven and that plots develop from the decisions and actions of characters and how they function in a story.
Propps 8 different character types:
The Hero
The Helper
The Villain
The False Hero
The Donor
The Dispatcher
The Princess
The Princess’s Father
Stuart Hall:
Stuart Hall’s REPRESENTATION theory is that there is not a true representation of people or events in a text, but there are lots of ways these can be represented.
Culture is defined as a space of interpretative struggle. He argued that the media not only reflects reality but also “produces” it while “reproducing” the dominant cultural order, in particular the order inherited from the Empire. The audience can interpret the piece of media in many ways, this can be based on things such as ethnicity and income etc.
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Judith Butler:
Judith questions the belief that certain gendered behaviours are natural, illustrating the ways that one’s learned performance of gendered behaviour (what we commonly associate with femininity and masculinity) is an act of sorts, a performance, one that is imposed upon us by normative heterosexuality.
Katz & Gurevitch & Hass:
Katz & Gurevitch & Hass talks about uses and gratification with there being 4 key ideas, the first being surveillance (seeking information, eg. facts based information) The next being personal identity, which are texts that reinforce your own values or beliefs the third one is personal relationships where the media creates a relationship with the audience. The final idea is diversion (eg. media that passes the time and escapism, browsing Facebook, or playing games.)
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Curran & Seaton:
Curran & Seaton talk about how media companies are structured and run, they talk about how most films are made by conglomerates and that they care mostly about profit and power. This can be done through things such as vertical and horizontal integration, this can result in a lack of diversity and innovation. They think that if companies are independent then there is more choice and diversity and creativity.
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Livingstone & Lunt:
Livingstone and Lunt talk about the regulation of films. In the film industry the BBFC are the ones who regulate. They think that regulating media is hard to do. This can be due to people who are adults wanting freedom in what media they decide to consume. The internet also makes it hard to regulate. They also believe that companies that are powerful can avoid regulation.
Released on November 22, 2014, witnesses is police procedural television series which is a sub-genre of drama and crime. It is a French film, however the original network is based up around France 2, La Une (Belgium), Channel 4 and BBC Four. The series was distributed on Netflix, Amazon, France 2, BBC Four and Channel 4.
The Hero –
The Helper –
The Villain –
The False Hero –
The Donor –
The Dispatcher –
The Princess –
The Princess’s Father –
The Missing:
Season 2 was released on February 12, 2017, which is a Psychological drama and a Mystery thriller. The country of origin is the United Kingdom. And in the film it is based in the UK, France and Germany. The film was distributed by All3Media it can be consumed on BBC One or amazon.
The Hero –
The Helper –
The Villain –
The False Hero –
The Donor –
The Dispatcher –
The Princess –
The Princess’s Father –
Question:
To what extent do television producers attempt to target national and global audiences box through subject matter and distribution? Refer to both of your television Close Study Products to support your answer:
Capital and Deutschland 83 OR Witnesses and The Missing OR No Offence and The Killing
Difference between culture industries and other industries:
Cultural industries has a social impact on people whereas other industries don’t
Other industries
Types:
Capitalist media – Corporations (eg. ITV) Public service media – State Related (eg. BBC) Civil society media – Citizen Control (eg. Hautlieu Radio)
Public Service Broadcasting:
Public broadcasting involves radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. In many countries of the world, funding comes from governments, especially via annual fees charged on receivers.
The public service ethos of the BBC to inform, entertain and educate
In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. – Edward Said
Jacques Lacan –The other. A good way to develop an understanding of this term is in his exploration of the mirror stage of child development, whereby, as we cannot actually see ourselves as whole, we use a reflection to understand who we are / who we are not. Lacan proposed that in infancy this first recognition occurs when we see ourselves in a mirror. Applying that theory to culture, communications and media studies, it is possible to see why we are so obsessed with reading magazines, listening to music, watching films, videos and television because, essentially, we are exploring ‘The Other’ as a way of exploring ourselves.
For example some Europeans may go over to Africa and say how it was there, but they are not truly representing the place, only seeing ‘The Other’
Music Video – Letter to the Free is a product which possesses cultural and social significance. It will invite comparison with other music videos allowing for an analysis of the contexts in which they are produced and consumed.
Key Concepts: ● Cultural resistance ● Cultural hegemony ● Subcultural theory
What is a subculture? ● Working-class youth culture ● Unified by shared tastes in style, music and ideology ● A solution to collectively experienced problems ● A form of resistance to cultural hegemony
Antonio Gramsci:
Key Terms: ● Hegemonic: dominant, ruling-class, power-holders ● Hegemonic culture: the dominant culture ● Cultural hegemony: power, rule, or domination maintained by ideological and cultural means. ● Ideology: worldview – beliefs, assumptions and values
Cultural hegemony functions by framing the ideologies of the dominant social group as the only legitimate ideology. ● The ideologies of the dominant group are expressed and maintained through its economic, political, moral, and social institutions (like the education system and the media). ● These institutions socialise people into accepting the norms, values and beliefs of the dominant social group. ● As a result, oppressed groups believe that the social and economic conditions of society are natural and inevitable, rather than created by the dominant group.
Prison is a business, America’s the company –
Black bodies being lost in the American dream – This suggests that black people are being killed in the American dream, the American dream can be seen by a dominant group of skin colour.
