LeaB Media Blog (Mr Pall)

​ Narrative  1.) Taylor Swift re-recorded her earlier albums due to a scandal regarding Scooter Braun who sold T.S's earlier albums for 300 million dollars. She re released them in order to get back full custody of her "art".  2.) T.S chose to make the short film because it was an attempt to "control her own narrative", including the short film as well as re-releases of her previous albums.  3.) Another example of of T.S using media to construct her own image is through her social media where she deliberately uses posts for self advertisement for both her image and promotion for her creative work, only showing viewers what she wants them to see.  T.S Textual Analysis 1.) T.S's website is constantly changing in order to perpetuate her self promotion and advertising of her creative work however the house font and logo remains consistent. Consisting of a plethora of different images of herself as well as descriptions of each of her eras, her entire website is c...

Media Magazine Reading 1.) YouTube has "democratised media creativity" by letting ordinary users become producers, then becoming both consumers and producers: prosumers. 2.) YouTube and social media culture has acted as a form of cultural imperialism/"Americanisation" by enforcing capitalism through consumerist ideals and portrayals from opinion leaders like influencers and celebs.  3.) Influences reinforce capitalistic ideologies due to their constant promotion of materialistic concept, things like hauls and sponsorship with adverts reinforce capitalism through consumerist portrayals towards passive audiences who are likely to copy these morals.  4.) YouTube and social media celebrity content can be read as postmodern (e.g. hyper-reality) due to it collapsing the boundary between reality and representations. 5.) Regulation could perhaps be feared by some audiences due to their misunderstanding and their linking of regulation to censorship and removal of "freed...

​MEDIA MAGAZINE READING: 1.) Bill Thompson claims some positive developments of the internet: “ways to talk to thousands of other computers around the world” and that exchanging of files with others in his university was done much easier.  2.) The development on the internet has dangers and negative effect of spam or harmful content since the network doesn’t “care what the date means or how it’s used”.  3.) “Open technology” refers to a digital tool that allows free access of the distribution of media.  My opinion is that this is both a positive thing as well as negative, this allows users for complete freedom to do whatever they want wish however this also creates concern for potential harmful material that could be shared.  4.) Thompson outlines the challenges and questions for the future of the internet due to its unregulated nature, however Thompson suggests that a managed and limited network could be constructed in China and Libya in order to provide regulation ...