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Mail Online soars past 200m monthly browsers as newspaper sites bounce back

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/20/mail-online-gains-17m-unique-browsers-as-newspaper-sites-bounce-back

The Daily mail online recently went past the threshold of 200 million monthly browsers of their content online. Whether this is at the opportunity cots of less readers of their tangible paper and more of the digital counterpart is debateable. However, this does highlight the fact that news firms adopting digital tactics is beneficial in the long term as proved by this article as their demographic are becoming more and more technology literate.

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Snapchat gets more musical with update adding audio to people's snaps

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/19/snapchat-gets-more-musical-audio-snaps

Fresh from rumours that it is raising fresh funding valuing the company at $19bn, Snapchat has launched a new feature that makes it easier for users to add music to the videos they share using its app.Snapchat can now take a live feed of whatever music or audio is currently playing on a user’s smartphone when they record a video, and use it as the soundtrack when they send the clip to friends or upload it to their “Stories” profile.

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Will.i.am stars in Wall Street Journal's global ad push

The Wall Street Journal has recruited Will.i.am for a global ad campaign urging people to “make time” to read the business title.Other businesspeople to appear in the campaign include Mike McCue, co-founder and chief executive of social magazine app Flipboard; Bill McDermott, chief executive of software company SAP; and Zhang Xin, co-founder and chief executive of property group SOHO China.

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Why print newspapers remain the dominant media power in Britainhttp://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/feb/16/why-print-newspapers-remain-the-dominant-media-power-in-britain

This article supports the argument that print is still the dominant superpower in the media today. This can therefore show and supports the argument that the decline of the newspaper industry may be overstated that what will necessarily occur. As a result, the effect that new and digital media has on the newspaper industry may also be severely overstated.

Identities and the Media: Feminism

What are the two texts the article focuses on?

The two texts is the TV show Pan Am and also Beyonce's music video for her song why don't you love me.

What examples are provided from the two texts of the 'male gaze' (Mulvey)?

One example is"fragmented legs as they walk in unison through the airport" . The second example is "with a face like that you will find a husband in a couple of months" . 

Do texts such as these show there is no longer a need for feminism or are they simply sexism in a different form?

I think that their saying that this is now a post feminism state by making themselves look like role models to women.

Choose three words/phrases from the glossary of the article and write their definitions on your blog.

Post-feminism – An ideology in culture and society that society is somehow past needing feminism and that the attitudes and arguments of feminism are no longer needed.

Patriarchy – An ideology that places men in a dominant position over women.

Feminism – A movement aimed at defining, establishing, and defending women’s rights and equality to men.



No More Page 3

Research the No More Page 3 campaign. Who started it and why?

Lucy Holmes started the campaign in the summer of 2014 where she kept saying the fact the only full page representation of woman was a sex object.


What are the six reasons the campaign gives for why Page 3 has to go?

1. Bad teachings for children
2. It is 2015, page 3 was made in the sexist times, 1970's.
3. The Sun could be better without page 3
4. Soft porn, families can look at that.
5. Showing that women are only needed for sexual needs
6. Women are known for doing better things in the world

Read this debate in the Guardian regarding whether the campaign should be dropped. What are Barbara Ellen and Susan Boniface's contrasting opinions in the debate?

Boniface believes the sun should no longer have page three as we do not live in the past anymore and now men and women are equal.

Barbara argues that being in page 3 is a decision that the women have chosen to participate in page 3 to show that women are equal and can do anything.

How can the No More Page 3 campaign be linked to the idea of post-feminism?

It can be Linked with post feminism as they can say that we have moved on and that we now live in a post- feminism state.

What are your OWN views on the No More Page 3 campaign. Do you agree with the campaign's aims? Should the campaign continue?

I agree with the campaign for the removal of page 3. It will help children grown up in a equal world and plus to take the next step towards a fully post-feminism state.

 Do you agree that we are in a post-feminist state or is there still a need for feminism?

I believe that there is still a need for feminism to show a equal world.

Post-colonialism: blog task

1) 

Fanon - "putting on the white mask"
Alvarado - 4 representation of black people.
Said - East vs West, uncivilized vs civilized

2)

One example is that how the dirty man used a finger to eat peanut butter over a spoon , another way is through the way the tea was cooked. Yasmin on the other hand shows the clash between east vs west, this is done through how she changes clothes when going work and when she is in the community she dresses differently.

3)

Fanon

 Alvarado

Said

Index

1. Iphone 
2. Steve Jobs' office 
3. FIfa 15 review - not Flawless, but still the best football game.
4.  Microsoft unveils Windows 10 not Windows 9
5.  Taylor Swift Single out everywhere except UK
6. Oculus warns Sony to solve motion sickness before launch
7. Taylor Swift removes songs from Spotify
8. Video games are not making us more violent, study shows
9. Spotify CEO speaks out on Taylor Swift albums removal: "I'm really frustrated"
10.  Uber executive apologises after suggesting the firm dig dirt on hostile journalists
11. Spotify and Uber team up for in-car streaming music
12.  Vine shifts from comedy clips to a valid journalistic tool
13. Jennifer Lawrence: 'I will never get Twitter. The internet has scorned me'
     
14.  Ched Evans rape debate: Ofcom to investigate BBC DJ’s comments
15. YouTubers ads for Oreo banned for not making clear purpose of videos
16. Digital journalists have great chance to develop much-needed transparency
17. News Corp UK suffers £3.5m lost after £51m profit the year before

    
    

18. Let Muadh go: Arab Twitter users plead for pilot held by Isis
19. Snapchat adds entertainment and news with discover
20. The Sun's move away from topless page 3 models may entice new advertisers
21. TransAsia crash

    
    

    
    

    
    

NDMS: TransAsia crash: Taiwan plane in deadly river crash

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31125052

Identities : Post colonialism

Films: 

• Adulthood
• Anuvahood
• attack the block
• shank
• sket
• ill Manors

Tv programmes : 

• Top boy,
• 55 degrees north
• line of duty
• The Kumars at no 42
• Goodness gracious me

Online production: 

• Meet the Adebanjos
• All about the Mckenzies
• Venus Vs Mars
• brothers with no game
• The Ryan sisters

In the clips as we witness three black males talking about guys skinny jeans. They refer to men who wear skinny jeans to be 'gay' as they strongly believe that women only should be the ones only wearing clothing as such. After slagging of the white male they talk about their heritage in a comedic way. The way in which they do it is by talking about their genital area size and how they've impregnated every race to create people like the Portuguese, mixed race etc. Alvarado's theory of the four main representations of black people can be applied to this text which is exotic, humorous, pitted and dangerous.  In the text we're able to establish that the three black males come across as humorous, exotic and dangerous. They are perceived as dangerous in the way they are dressed and the look that they have. Furthermore, the place where they are talk is commonly associated with gang violence, robbery which is an estate area. In the second clip we witness the exotic side to the representation of black people. For instance, when the guys brother is coming out from the car and starts signing in the chicken shop. We witness his younger brother who is fairly quiet which isn't common for a young black man to be represented in that sense therefore; we could potentially link it to the fact that he's putting on 'the white mask' which links to Fanon's theory.