Task 1

News are the things that bring information to us and it is important to us. We can get our knowledge from news also. Without news, we just like a frog that unknown anything that happened in this world. Through news, we know about political, religious, sports and also entertainment.  According to the Wikipedia, news is the communication of selected information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, internet or world of mouth to a third party or mass audience.

 News is important to us to know what had happened around us and all the world. There are many ways to get the news around the world. For example, through television. This is the most common way that we get our information everyday. And newspaper also the common thing to transfer information to us in everyday life. Newspaper just like the television, they provided the newest things the happening around this world to people.

For me, I usually get the news from the internet like searching the online newspaper. This is the easy and simple ways for us to get more information. With the modern technologies nowadays, people get their information form the internet with their smart phone. The news that I mostly interest with is the entertainment and the news about design. For the entertainment, I interest with all the artist news. And for design part, I like the creative way they do the thing and the design they have done. And I also get the news from youtube and facebook. By watching the youtube, I more concentrated what they talking and the facebook spread the new in the short time.

Conclusion, without news, our world will be like in confusion. And we don’t know what had happening around us, whether there is already a war theatre or not. So, news is important to everyone.

Task 1

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance. . Elements of design and stagecraft are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. There are few types of theatre, drama, musical theatre, opera, comedy, tragedy.

The theatre is a created thing, and its very creation determines what it is and what it does. We create the theatre in such way to express meaning, feeling, and spirit so that the audience member will have an opportunity to experience what we want them to experience. For instance, we may want the audience to experience what it is like to live in a cardboard box in an alley in order to get them to feel and understand urban problems. At the same time, we may wan to affirm the worth of persons. A person living in a cardboard box has worth.

Theatre is a type of media form which can bring message to the audience. Theatre is more effective if use as media form because it  is like a story telling to recall the story and easy to memorize. The writer has to be more creative and think of way to set the characters’ emotion. Refer to Wikipedia, theatre has involves the audiences in variety of ways.  

Theatre is a performing art of the production. Acting, directing, design, construction, running crew like musicians, singers, dancers. We can increase aesthetic and technical appreciation for the individual arts going into make theatre and for different styles and periods of theatre.

Theatre is a major form of entertainment. Holds audience’s attention-the primary form of public entertainment until the advent of radio and movies. Theatre is a fun, is a play for the soul, for the mind, for the body. All work and no plays would be boring.

Task 2

Identify at least four social/ cultural groups and what media they use you think.

Social groups has been defined as two or more peoples who interact with one another, share similar characteristics and collectively have a sense of unity. Regardless, social group come in myriad of sizes and varieties. Social can be separate into 4 categories like kids, teenagers, adults and old folks.

Kids
For kids, they are more prefer printed media which have images. For them, they are not ability to understand and read the words. From the media which have images, kids are more easily get their knowledge and remember the things that they learn. Mostly of them also learning from digital media like e-book with full of coloring, sound and cartoons.

Teenagers
Teenagers are communicate through electronic media and digital media like computer and mobile phone. They text messaging to their friends and chatting through famous application nowadays like Facebook and WhatsApp. Besides that, Internet are the connection for them to interact with others.

Adults
Most of the adults using latest technologies like Ipad and Smartphone. They are seldom to rad newspaper but get the information from web. For them, entertainment and information can get easily from web. Mostly business people using smartphone and Ipad to do their business through the internet. Using digital media make them feel comfortable and relax.

Old Folks
They are not like teenagers and adults, they like read newspaper and document that print in the paper. For them, smartphone are difficult to control. But, they are some old folk are very up to date also, they are learning to use the new technologies.

Task 1

What is media forms?

Over the centuries, humans have developed different ways of communicating with one another, and have especially sought ways of communicating a single message to large groups, via a mass medium. Various scientific and technological developments have led to the creation of mass media forms.

Printed Media

Print media is one of the oldest and basic form of mass communication. It includes newspaper, magazines, tabloids, journals, and photo journals.

Electronic Media

Electronic Media is information or date that is created, distributed and accessed using a form of electronics, electromechanical energy or any equipment used in electronic communications.

Digital Media

Digital media literacy is often understood as the ability to access, understand and participate or create content using digital media.

Broadcast Media

The term "broadcast media" covers a wide spectrum of different communication methods such as television, radio, newspapers, magazines and any other materials supplied by the media and press.

Outdoor Media

Any advertising done outdoors that publicizes your business's products and services. Outdoor advertising works well for promoting your product in specific geographic areas.

Primitive Media

Primitive media is refer to the media which used to communicate at the earliest or original stage.

Written Media

Written media offer access to readers whom you might not be able to address orally. Written media is a chance to think your message through carefully and double-check before you deliver it.

Spoken Media

Spoken media specializes in publicity, marketing and distribution strategy for documentary films.

Drawn Media

Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Most drawing media are dry (graphite, charcoal, pastels, silver point), or use a fluid solvent or carrier (marker pen and ink).

Art Media

The artistic methods, processes, or means of expression, used in the visual arts to produce a work of art.

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Media Types and Tools

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Task 2

Media takes many forms in our world today. Newspaper, television, printed matter and radio are all form of media. you can use any form of media to express your idea and present your opinion to the public. The media is often considered the mouthpiece of modern culture.

The mass media are all those media technologies that are intended to reach a large audience by mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise television, radio, film, movies, CDs, DVDs, and other devices such as cameras and video consoles. Alternatively, print media use a physical object as a means of sending their information, such as a newspaper, magazines, comics, books, brochures, newsletter, leaflets, and pamphlets. The organizations that control these technologies, such as television stations or publishing companies, are also known as the mass media.

In general, how much trust and confidence do you have in the mass media, such as newspaper, TV, and radio. When it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately, and fairly, a great deal, a fair amount, not very much, or not at all? Where do you get most of your news about what’s going on in the world today? Newspapers, radio, television, internet, magazines, or talking to others?

There is as yet no “anthropology of mass media”. Even the intersection of anthropology and mass media appears rather small considering the published literature to dat. Within the last five or so years, however, as anthropologists have increasingly struggled to define what falls within the legitimate realm of the study of a “a culture” and within the privileged purview of “a discipline”, there has been a dramatic rise in interest in the study of mass media. Indeed mass media themselves have been a contributing force in the processes of cultural and disciplinary deterritorialization.

Mass media, defined in the conventional sense as the electronic media of radio, television, film, and recorded music, and the print media of newspaper, magazines, and popular literature, are at once artifacts, experiences, practices, and processes. They are economically and politically driven, linked to developments in science and technology, and like most domains of human life, their existence is inextricably bound up with the use of language. Given these various modalities and spheres of operation, there are numerous angles for approaching mass media anthropologically: as institutions, as workplaces, as communicative practices, as cultural products, as social activities, as aesthetic forms, and as historical development. 

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Cross Disciplinary

Cross-Disciplinary refers to knowledge that explains aspects of one discipline in terms of another, common examples of cross-disciplinary approaches are studies of the physics of music or the politics of literature.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciplinary#Cross-disciplinary

Intedisciplinary

Interdisciplinary refers to new knowledge extensions that exist between or beyond existing academic disciplines or professions. The new knowledge maybe claimed by members of non, one, both, or an emerging new academic discipline or profession.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciplinary#Interdisciplinary

Trans Disciplinary

In practice, trans disciplinary can be taught of as the union of all interdisciplinary efforts. While interdisciplinary terms may be creating new knowledge that lies between several existing disciplines, a trans disciplinary term is more holistic and seeks to relate all disciplines into a coherent whole.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciplinary#Transdisciplinary

Qualitative Research 

Qualitative Research is a method of inquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, traditionally in the social sciences, but also in market research and further contexts. Qualitative research aim to gather an in-depth understanding of human behaviour and the reasons that govern such behaviour.  The qualitative method investigates the why and how decision making, not just what, when, where. Hence, smaller but focused samples are more often needed than large samples.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research

Ethnography 

Ethnography is a qualitative research design aimed at exploring cultural phenomena. The resulting field study case or a case report reflects the knowledge and the system of meanings in the lives of a cultural group.

Ethnography, as the empirical data on human societies and cultures, was pioneered in the biological, social, and cultural branches of anthropology but has also become a popular in the social sciences in general – sociology, communication studies, history – wherever people study ethnic groups, formations, compositions, resettlements, social welfare characteristics, materiality, spirituality, and a provides a forum for peoples ethnogenesis.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnography