1) Research the Ian Tomlinson case. What would the traditional, hegemonic view of the police be in a case like this? How did new and digital media create a different story? What does the police officer's subsequent aquittal suggest about the power of new and digital media?
The hegemonic view of the police before the video was shown would be that a police officer was just doing his job and protecting society from disorder which Ian Tomlinson was apparently creating, the police officer would have been as just doing his job, he did all he could do in his power to make the G20 summit as peaceful as possible as that was his job and no one would have said anything to him, but new and digital media showed him out to be a criminal and proved that he should be charged for his actions, Ian was just standing there and minding his own business and when although it was obvious he was not protesting, but Ian Tomlinson was drunk. This video went viral and new and digital media gave a case for the defence to fight, it also shows that new and digital media does have power, as this took a case all the way to crown court.
2) Do you agree that new and digital media challenges the traditional, dominant hegemonic views? Why?
New and digital media alters the way people behave and challenges ideologies of certain things and it puts the power of dictatorship to the audiences hands. it allows people to comment on videos or articles that they agree or do not agree with. The comments allow on-line users to show there views and people can be encouraged to get their views across.
3) What does the author argue regarding whether hegemony is being challenged by Web 2.0?
Thursday 28 November 2013
Thursday 21 November 2013
Post-Colonialism
Rick Dewsbury's article on the opening ceremony of the Olympics is a biased and ridiculous argument. He slants the NHS for not doing their job correctly and puts the blame of a death on their hands. This argument is unfair on the whole institution of the NHS, the mistake of one hospital does not represent the whole NHS, the attack should only be for a minority of the NHS not the majority. Even though there is no forgiving what that hospital did, in my opinion the hospital should be slated.
Yasmin (2004)
Does it offer a positive or negative representation of British Muslims ?
'Yasmin' gives us a different stereotype to our usual one concerning Muslims, when we hear about Muslims or see a movie about Muslims, we are usually infiltrated with a stereotype that shows a Muslim or Asian character as a terrorist or violent, which is far from what we see in the opening scenes of Yasmin. In Yasmin, we see four Muslim characters, one being Yasmin herself. The opening scenes give us an awkward but positive regarding British Muslims. The four characters we see are in no way shown as violent to us. We see abuse written on the shutters of the mosque and the character is cleaning it instead of acting violently against it. The women we see who is Yasmin is just shown as a normal British citizen who goes work and we actually see her as peaceful, her job is helping disabled children and even when she is stopped by police officers she is still very calm and collective. Their is no abuse from her and she peacefully hands her documents over and answers all the questions asked by the police officers so the overall representation of British Muslims is seen as positive, even though it may be too early in the narrative to give an answer about how they actually are, from what we have seen I can say that the British Muslims are shown as positive, they are normal working citizens who do not get into a lot of trouble, nevertheless, Yasmin herself is shown to have two different lives, her work colleague who she could potentially be in a relationship with does not know she is married as we see her getting changed in a graveyard which could portray her desire to actually be a White British citizen rather than a British Muslim.
'Yasmin' gives us a different stereotype to our usual one concerning Muslims, when we hear about Muslims or see a movie about Muslims, we are usually infiltrated with a stereotype that shows a Muslim or Asian character as a terrorist or violent, which is far from what we see in the opening scenes of Yasmin. In Yasmin, we see four Muslim characters, one being Yasmin herself. The opening scenes give us an awkward but positive regarding British Muslims. The four characters we see are in no way shown as violent to us. We see abuse written on the shutters of the mosque and the character is cleaning it instead of acting violently against it. The women we see who is Yasmin is just shown as a normal British citizen who goes work and we actually see her as peaceful, her job is helping disabled children and even when she is stopped by police officers she is still very calm and collective. Their is no abuse from her and she peacefully hands her documents over and answers all the questions asked by the police officers so the overall representation of British Muslims is seen as positive, even though it may be too early in the narrative to give an answer about how they actually are, from what we have seen I can say that the British Muslims are shown as positive, they are normal working citizens who do not get into a lot of trouble, nevertheless, Yasmin herself is shown to have two different lives, her work colleague who she could potentially be in a relationship with does not know she is married as we see her getting changed in a graveyard which could portray her desire to actually be a White British citizen rather than a British Muslim.
Thursday 14 November 2013
Hegemony
- Immigration
Jack Straw has admitted that opening Britain's borders to Eastern European migrants was a "spectacular mistake".
The former Labour Home Secretary said his party's decision to allow migrants from Poland and Hungary to work in Britain from 2004 was a ‘"well-intentioned policy we messed up".
It comes a day after David Blunkett, Mr Straw's successor as Home secretary, warned British cities could face riots as an influx of Roma migrants creates "frictions" with local people.
The last Labour government predicted that only 13,000 would move to Britain from Poland and other eastern European countries after 2004.
However, more than one million arrived in one of the biggest waves of immigration seen in this country.
The English language is continually evolving. Just the other day I had to Google what on earth ‘twerking’ meant. This year the Oxford dictionary added the equivalent of one new word a week. If we struggle to keep up with our new lexicon, just imagine what it’s like for those who have only the most basic understanding of our language. Learning English is as enterprising as it is essential. That is why we have put £6 million into innovative programmes that will teach the joys of the English language.
Language is more than just the verbal act. It is knowing the difference between the green and red milk tops. It is knowing which bus will get you to work quickest. When English is your mother tongue, it’s easy to take it for granted what a gift it is. Have you ever tried out your rusty GCSE French in a little provincial French café? You pluck up the courage to order your croque monsieur in your best accent, only to feel scowled at by the impatient waiter, who has another six tourists to serve. If you’ve ever felt a tiny bit of that embarrassment, then you will understand what it’s like for immigrants in the UK.
Only 1.5% of reports alleging illegal immigration result in a person being removed from the UK, MPs have said.
The Home Affairs Committee also said the now-defunct UK Border Agency had a backlog of 432,029 immigration and asylum cases when it was scrapped at the end of March.
Its chairman, Labour MP Keith Vaz, urged the coalition to take "effective action" to amend a "poor record".
The government responded that it was "getting tough" on illegal immigration.
The committee looked at the allegations database set up by the UKBA to follow up tip-offs by the public. It replaced a system where allegations and removals were held separately.
It revealed that about 6% of claims had led to an investigation and 1.5% had resulted in removals.
Eleven immigrants left UK after seeing 'go home' van adverts
Eleven illegal migrants left the UK as a result of seeing vans with the message "go home or face arrest", the Home Office has claimed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2506888/Immigration-talk-race-riots-ministers-claim-havent-warned-STEPHEN-GLOVER.html
Anyone who relies on the BBC for news will probably be unaware that earlier this week a well-known politician uttered some of the most extraordinary remarks about immigration that have been made by a national figure in living memory.
But the politician who warned that ‘tensions’ between local people and Roma migrants could escalate into rioting unless action is taken was not from the far-Right, Ukip or even the Tory Party. No, these comments were made by David Blunkett, a former Labour Home Secretary and a very moderate man.
Ironically, in view of the fact that the BBC in London has virtually ignored the story, Mr Blunkett had originally confided his fears to BBC Sheffield, the city where he is an MP. He called on the Roma community in the Page Hall area of Sheffield to change aspects of their ‘behaviour’, such as congregating on the streets on summer evenings and dumping litter. These activities, he said, are ‘aggravating’ local people.
Britain’s attitude to immigration is ‘grotesque and hypocritical,’ claims Calais politician who says town is approaching Sangatte-style crisis
- Deputy mayor of Calais Philippe Mignonet made the remarks
- An estimated 400 migrants are currently living in dilapidated buildings or camping out in Calais
- Last month mayor Natacha Bouchart appealed to citizens to report new squats to the police
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/442169/Flood-of-immigrants-make-township-ghettos-out-of-Britain-s-seasides
Tory Paul Carter, who leads Kent County Council, says the rising number of migrants in towns from Clacton in Essex, to Margate in Kent and Eastbourne in East Sussex is putting huge pressure on health and other public services.
In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Express Mr Carter added: “The pressure is growing in coastal communities. I think we need government to give us help in these townships in some wards.
“We are getting a concentration of vulnerable people of variable ethnicity creating a lot of pressures on public services of all different types.”
The council is currently preparing a report which will call on David Cameron to demand a radical approach to the problem in towns such as Margate, where up to 3,000 Romas have set up homes in cheap low quality private housing or been given council flats.
Mr Carter revealed: “We will ask the government to stop the inward migration of vulnerable and troubled families out of London or abroad into these communities so we can start to lift them and reverse the trend of potentially building bigger ghettoes.”
Monday 11 November 2013
Cultivation theory: Top Boy
The Cultivation theory was developed by Gerbner in the mid 1960s and it is the theoty that television has long term effects which are small and gradual, they are also indirect but still significant, and this is a theory we can see used in 'Top Boy'. In the opening scenes of 'Top Boy' we would expect to see a lot of negativity surrounding teenagers but more specifically black teenagers, but we are proved wrong, on the contrary to this, we see more positives for the black teenagers than negatives, which subverts the stereotype of how teenagers behave but also the stereotype we have been accustomed to regarding Black individuals, nevertheless their is still negativity regarding the teenagers but the opening scenes of 'Top Boy' you could say goes against Gerbner's theory of Cultivation and subverts it, in the way that Gerbner is right and we have been brought up to view teenagers and black individuals negatively but in the case of the opening scenes of 'Top Boy' the representations are subverted and this show will not have much effect on us as it is a small series, not the same as a longg running drama such as Eastenders, but I still agree with Gerbner's theory and agree over the long term we can become accustomed with such stereotypes and representations but not in the case of 'Top boy' We also see in 'Top Boy' that many of the younger black teenagers are portrayed as more positively than the older generation, so this could refer to how society see's many teenagers and they make think of the older generation as the corrupt one, whereas the younger generation may be improving, also we see the young black teenager act morally throughout the opening scenes, even when he is tempted by his white friend, who we would expect to be the moral one out of the two due to stereotypes and old representations.
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