a) Citizen journalism is the concept of members of the public "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information".
b) new technologies in 1991, Rodney King, an African-American, after a high speed chase, the officers surrounded him, tasered him and beat him with clubs. The event was filmed by an onlooker from his apartment window. The home-video footage made prime-time news and became an international media sensation, and a focus for complaints about police racism towards African-Americans.
c) Asian Tsunami on December 26th 2004
London bombings on July 5th 2005
shooting at Virginia Tech
Mumbai bombings in India in late November 2008
d) UGC is 'user generated content. It is not necessarily professional and therefore sometimes lacks credibility.
e) A gatekeeper is defined as someone who controls access to something. It also refers to individuals who decide whether a given message will be distributed by a mass medium.
f) "The way around the gatekeepers is with the independent media on the web. The blogosphere, for example, provides an opportunity for independent, often minority and niche views and news to reach a wide audience. In fact uniting disparate people in ‘micro-communities’ is one of the web’s greatest abilities. How else would all those ice fans communicate without the ‘Ice Chewers Bulletin Board?’ And the only place for those who like to see pictures of dogs in bee costumes is, of course, ‘Beedogs.com: the premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes"
g) It is likely that in future there will be fewer and fewer permanent trained staff at news organisations, leaving a smaller core staff who will manage and process UGC from citizen journalists, sometimes known as ‘crowd sourcing.’
Some believe that the mediators and moderators might eventually disappear too, leaving a world where the media is, finally, unmediated. This does raise concerns however. Without moderation sites could be overrun by bigots or fools, by those who shout loudest, and those who have little else to do but make posts The risk of being dominated by defamatory or racist or other hate-fuelled content raises questions about unmoderated content: ‘free speech’ is great as long as you agree with what everybody is saying!
Tuesday 7 December 2010
Saturday 4 December 2010
representation of black youths in uk underground rap culture
Men in rap videos are shown to be:
-sexist
-misogynistic
-materialistic
-arrogant
-violent
-reliant on their 'black' persona
-glamourize death by getting shot
-an outlaw + a hustler
-strugglers in the Ghetto
-racist towards other young males (threats) called 'niggers'
UK hip hop
-country’s urban music scene dominates our charts, record shops and iPods
-it’s street music made by people railing against the establishment, the often Black producers hate their Government
-American hip hop sounds glossier and better produced, and the artists look far harder and more serious than anyone coming out of the UK ever could
-endless and hopeless ghettos and projects, a spiralling gun culture, ridiculously big cars. There’s just no comparison to the US.
-UK hip hop scene has battled against for around two decades
-UK garage and hip hop with a heavy Jamaican twist – all warp-speed spitting over raw and dirty beats – is tense and stripped back in a way that makes US hip hop look corporate and commercial
-Our grime stars are happy if they sell 500 or 1,000 white labels in Bow’s Rhythm Division Records; how can that match up against the hundreds of thousands of units that even minor American stars shift around the world?
-Who in the UK can really relate to rants about bitches, cars, plenty of cash and revenge in the projects? The lyrics of Dizzee Rascal, Black Twang, Jehst, Skinnyman or Ty are infinitely more real.
-So why do we continue to lap up 50 Cent or G-Unit who are all about having a blisteringly hard image over some heavy beats and not much else? While we happily hate neo-Conservative America and all it stands for, we’re complicit in being force fed extremely corporate hip-hop-by-numbers at the expense of our own young guns trying to break through
-sexist
-misogynistic
-materialistic
-arrogant
-violent
-reliant on their 'black' persona
-glamourize death by getting shot
-an outlaw + a hustler
-strugglers in the Ghetto
-racist towards other young males (threats) called 'niggers'
UK hip hop
-country’s urban music scene dominates our charts, record shops and iPods
-it’s street music made by people railing against the establishment, the often Black producers hate their Government
-American hip hop sounds glossier and better produced, and the artists look far harder and more serious than anyone coming out of the UK ever could
-endless and hopeless ghettos and projects, a spiralling gun culture, ridiculously big cars. There’s just no comparison to the US.
-UK hip hop scene has battled against for around two decades
-UK garage and hip hop with a heavy Jamaican twist – all warp-speed spitting over raw and dirty beats – is tense and stripped back in a way that makes US hip hop look corporate and commercial
-Our grime stars are happy if they sell 500 or 1,000 white labels in Bow’s Rhythm Division Records; how can that match up against the hundreds of thousands of units that even minor American stars shift around the world?
-Who in the UK can really relate to rants about bitches, cars, plenty of cash and revenge in the projects? The lyrics of Dizzee Rascal, Black Twang, Jehst, Skinnyman or Ty are infinitely more real.
-So why do we continue to lap up 50 Cent or G-Unit who are all about having a blisteringly hard image over some heavy beats and not much else? While we happily hate neo-Conservative America and all it stands for, we’re complicit in being force fed extremely corporate hip-hop-by-numbers at the expense of our own young guns trying to break through
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