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UK Space Agency - launching for superior resultsEduserv
How the UK Space Agency has saved money and improved their web presence by moving to a shared content management platform. This session will cover how Eduserv developed a shared content management platform for the department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and their partners (of which the UK Space Agency is one). It will also take the audience through the practicalities and potential benefits of using Sitecore CRM to implement a shared web service.
If Big Data is data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional systems, thereby necessitating alternative processing measures, we are looking at an essentially technological challenge that IT managers are best equipped to address.
The DCC is currently working with 18 HEIs to support and develop their capabilities in the management of research data and, whilst the aforementioned challenge is not usually core to their expressed concerns, are there particular issues of curation inherent to Big Data that might force a different perspective?
We have some understanding of Big Data from our contacts in the Astronomy and High Energy Physics domains, and the scale and speed of development in Genomics data generation is well known, but the inability to provide sufficient processing capacity is not one of their more frequent complaints.
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Level 1 undergrad class in which we chart the emergence of the term web 2.0 following the dot-com bubble. Looks at key players and problems of specificity. Also looks at some of the criticisms made of the by-product of web 2.0 tech, namely user generated content
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Slides used in a presentation at the Uni. Sunderland. The argument which goes along side this can be found in the International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics Volume 5 Number 3
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Mind the Gap between Perceptions & Reality - Nalaka Gunawardene keynote to He...Nalaka Gunawardene
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COM 203 Introduction to CommunicationWeek 9, Day 2, 322.docxclarebernice
COM 203: Introduction to Communication
Week 9, Day 2, 3/22
Agenda
Quiz 2 (30 minutes)
Discuss mass communication and perspectives on the effects of media
Reminders:
Paper 3 due on 4/10
Quiz 3 is on 4/12
Some questions….
Following questions….are they fiction or reality about the effects of mass media?
Mass Effects….Fiction or Reality?
Media is only make believe…people know it is not real
But…
News is not make-believe (at least it’s not supposed to be)
Most film and television dramas (Modern Family) are produced to seem real to viewers
Much of contemporary television are “reality shows”
Before they develop the capacity to know what is not real, children confront the world through television ~ what they see is real.
We willingly suspend disbelief while consuming media in the name of entertainment.
Mass Effects….Fiction or Reality?
Media is only entertainment
But…
News is not play or entertainment (at least it’s not supposed to be).
Even if media content is only play, play is very important to the way we develop our knowledge of ourselves and our world (think about what we learn from “playing sports”)
Mass Effects….Fiction or Reality?
Media is merely a mirror that is showing us the “norm”
But….
If this is true then it is a very selective mirror.
Some questions to think on:
What does a “typical family” look like on TV?
When there is a “bad person” on TV what do they look like?
What race or ethnicity do “heros” tend to be? What sex?
How are jobs represented on TV with regard to sex?
Mass Effects….Fiction or Reality?
Media merely reinforces existing values…family, church, school, etc. have more impact
But….
The traditional socializing agents (school, religion, family) have lost much of their power to influence in our complicated and fast-paced world.
Moreover, reinforcement is not the same as having no effects. If media can reinforce the good in our culture, media can just as easily reinforce the bad.
Mass Effects….Fiction or Reality?
Media doesn’t impact important issues, only minor ones like fads and fashion
But….
Fads and fashions are not unimportant to us.
Think about how much time and effort is spent on selecting clothes, cars, phones, electronics, etc.
Media helped make fads and fashions so central to our self-definition and happiness.
Why are billions of dollars spent on media efforts to sway opinion about social issues such as universal health care, nuclear power, and global warming. Are these not important issues?
MASS COMMUNICATION THEORIES
Given the importance of mass communication and its many forms, there are quite a few well-developed theories regarding the meaning-making relationship between mass media and their audiences.
Cultivation Theory
Developed by George Gerbner in the 1970s.
Deals with television effects and argues that television has long-term effects
Effects are gradual but significant an increased belief that the world is a cruel place Mean World Syndrome
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Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
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4. Hypodermic syringe
! AKA Magic Bullet
! After Schramm
(1961/1982)
! Mass media are so
powerful they can 'inject'
their messages into the
audience
! AKA propaganda around
WW1
5. Social Cognitive Theory
! Albert Bandura (1959-77)
! ‘Bobo’ doll tests
! Many variations
! 3 groups of children (aged
3-6)
! Rooms with toys
! Adult attacking bobo doll
6. Social Cognitive Theory
! Children exposed to the
aggressive model were
more likely to show
imitative aggressive
behaviour themselves.
! Subjects exposed to the
non-aggressive model, or
no model at all, showed
little imitative aggressive
behaviour
7. Social Cognitive Theory
! Problems
! Rather simple experiments
! Isolate variables and test response
! Establish the (artificial) conditions to test the response
! Draw conclusions about society?
! Audience as too PASSIVE
8. Uses & Gratifications
! “Even the most potent of the mass media content
cannot ordinarily influence an individual who has 'no
use' for it in the social and psychological context in
which he lives.
! The 'uses' approach assumes that people's values, their
interests, their associations, their social rôles, are pre-
potent, and that people selectively 'fashion' what they
see and hear to these interests”
(Katz, 1959 in McQuail, 1971)
9. Gratifying needs
1. Surveillance
• the need for knowledge
2. Personal identity
• our dis/likes and comparisons
3. Personal relationships
• TV facilitates discussion; acts as a ‘friend’
4. Diversion
• escapism, entertainment, relaxing (emotional release &
sexual arousal)
10. Gratifying needs
! Problems:
! Highly individualistic
! Little attention paid to media form and content
! Ignores meanings attached to media
! Presumes the media are always functional
! Audience as too ACTIVE
20. Questions
! Do we agree or disagree with the claim that the media
‘effects’ us?
! What kind of form do these ‘effects’ take?
! Is it possible to measure these ‘effects’? How would we
do it?
! What kind of variables or approaches need to be taken
into account if we want to explore audience research
fully?
21. Further Reading
! Daniel Chandler has a series of useful essays summarising the major
arguments
! Cultivation Theory: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/cultiv.html
! Encoding/Decoding: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem08c.html
! Nationwide Audience:
! http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/TF33120/morleynw.html
! David Gauntlett also summarises many of the problems with claims
around media effects
! 10 Things Wrong With The Effects Model: http://www.theory.org.uk/david/effects.htm
! Also, Tanya Bryon’s report into children and new technology has a useful
appendix by Prof David Buckingham:
! http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/byronreview/pdfs/Buckingham%20Impact%20of%20Media%20Literature
%20Review%20for%20the%20Byron%20Review.pdf
