The document discusses applying Michel Foucault's theory to understand media texts. It aims to help understand Foucault's perspective and apply his ideas about power and surveillance to analyzing media. Key concepts discussed include Foucault's panopticon model of constant surveillance and how it shapes behavior, and how voyeurism enacts power over those being watched. The document suggests discussing reality TV, social media, and other media through the lens of Foucault's panopticon theory.
Essential Components of Historical Documents - WorksheetDeborah Granger
This worksheet accompanies documentary development information sheet. It may be used by students as they view documentaries in order to "deconstruct" them to derive meaning.
Essential Components of Historical Documents - WorksheetDeborah Granger
This worksheet accompanies documentary development information sheet. It may be used by students as they view documentaries in order to "deconstruct" them to derive meaning.
Non-Coders Wanted: How to Get and Keep Non-technical Volunteersfreedeb
Many distributions sorely need writers for documentation, press releases and blogging or experts on outreach, fundraising and volunteer management or a friendly pack of translators, but aren't sure how to get them. Non-coders do want to contribute to free software, but they need slightly different framing and like all contributors they thrive with the proper care and feeding. Tweaking your volunteer pitch, looking in different places, being open to different communications channels, and finding ways to appreciate folks will help immensely.
Once you've got them, letting your new non-coding contributors get on with what they're good at will help them feel invested. In this talk, I'll discuss how to set parameters for non-coding tasks so that everyone is happy. With some basic benchmarks for scheduling, accountability and volunteer empowerment, you'll be able to retain and excite your new non-coding volunteers. Want more visibility, a better user experience, nicer materials or more well-organized events for your distro? Start bringing in folks with the skills and enthusiasm to make it happen!
Lesson for journalists on spotting fake photos and photoshops, how to detect altered photos. Presented during various workshops at the Poynter Institute.
Non-Coders Wanted: How to Get and Keep Non-technical Volunteersfreedeb
Many distributions sorely need writers for documentation, press releases and blogging or experts on outreach, fundraising and volunteer management or a friendly pack of translators, but aren't sure how to get them. Non-coders do want to contribute to free software, but they need slightly different framing and like all contributors they thrive with the proper care and feeding. Tweaking your volunteer pitch, looking in different places, being open to different communications channels, and finding ways to appreciate folks will help immensely.
Once you've got them, letting your new non-coding contributors get on with what they're good at will help them feel invested. In this talk, I'll discuss how to set parameters for non-coding tasks so that everyone is happy. With some basic benchmarks for scheduling, accountability and volunteer empowerment, you'll be able to retain and excite your new non-coding volunteers. Want more visibility, a better user experience, nicer materials or more well-organized events for your distro? Start bringing in folks with the skills and enthusiasm to make it happen!
Lesson for journalists on spotting fake photos and photoshops, how to detect altered photos. Presented during various workshops at the Poynter Institute.
A presentation made for Teaching Reading under Dr. Estacio in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Teaching, Major in English Language Teaching, in De La Salle University-Manila
Critical thinking and Multimodal LiteracyCLARKDOMINIC1
A presentation made for Teaching Reading under Dr. Mante-Estacio in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English, Major in English Language Teaching, in De La Salle University-Manila
Globalization, new media, and technological environments are present-day facts which are changing our world, our reality and the manner in which we think about them. The human being is a significant part of this reality. He is the one who is producing these transformations while he is constructing his identity and searching for meaning. He is the one transforming the narrative of his life and accomplishing, conscious or unconsciously, a real metamorphosis of his skills, his self-image, and himself.
Modernity, with its rationalism and its development of science and technology, has created a fairer and more comfortable world. Nevertheless, it has also contributed to giving mankind the power to destroy himself and his environment.
Post-Modernity has eroded the traditional and ideological frameworks of meaning, which have allowed us to experience our personal desires and social structures as one thing.
Our approach to Anthropology aims to understand what the human being is, what it is becoming, and what is going to become in light of the uncertainty provoked by recent and ongoing cultural changes.
Slide presentation about the socratic method with a short introduction of socrates life. This also depict the philosophical thinking of socrates, who is an ancient philosopher from Greece.
3. Starter 1
• A) 3 prison officers, 5 prisoners
– Officers in centre
– Prisoners around them
• B) 3 prison officers, 5 prisoners
– Officers in classroom
– Prisoners in small room (cell)
4. Starter 1 - Questions
• Scene A
– How did you feel?
– Why did you feel that way?
– How did you behave?
– Why do you think you behaved that way?
• Scene B
– How did you feel?
– Why did you feel that way?
– How did you behave?
– Why do you think you behaved that way?
• The difference?
– How do did you behave differently from scene a to b?
– Why do you think you behaved differently?
5. Starter 2
• Imagine your ‘best’ Facebook profile picture
– Does it actually look like the ‘real’ you?
– How did you make yourself look ideal?
– Why did you make yourself look ideal?
– Why do you think the idea of an audience looking at this
picture/profile changes you and your behaviour?
– What is the ‘effect’ of ‘idealising’ yourself online?
7. Key terms
• Pan = sweeping movement to reveal more
(broad view or broad in scope)
• Optic = using sight
• Voyeurism = the act of watching
8. Key Terms
• Panopticon = circular prison well cells around
outside with central surveillance station
• Panoptic/Panoptical = including everything
visible in 1 view
9. Panopticon – the prison
• The Panopiticon was an innovate prison
design by English philosopher Jeremy
Bentham in 1785. In it he designed a prison in
which all inmates could be constantly
watched or be under the threat of being
watched.
10.
11. Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
• Foucault's ideas centred on
History, particularly around how
we know about the world around
us and each other. He wrote
extensively on the history of
sexuality and gender and was a
pioneer of "Queer Theory" he
main contributions include.
• Panopticalisation
• Knowledge and Power
• He died from an AID's related
illness in 1984
12. Focault – main points
• Foucault's ideas explain why we are so obsessed with Voyeurism in
Postmodernity.
• Foucault thought that ‘the panopticon’ was interesting and started to
apply the idea to Society
• Foucault suggested that the act of watching (voyeurism) was an act of
power and control on part of the viewer. We are never ourselves in social
situations until we are alone away from others controlling sight.
• Because of this people act differently and the act of watching becomes
an act of control.
• Recently Foucault's ideas have been used to understand Reality TV and
the Media.
13. Task (13D)
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4
Kyran
Jordan
Oli
Brad
Owen
Joe B
Joe B
Jamal
Adrian
Joe C
Catfish
Reality TV:
X factor
big brother/
I’m a celeb, get me
out of here!
Social Networking:
Facebook, twitter
etc
Gogglebox
14. Task (13C)
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4
Josh
Nick
Conor
Danny
Jake
Austin
James
Liam
Jack
Geraint
Catfish
Reality TV:
X factor
big brother/
I’m a celeb, get me
out of here!
Social Networking:
Facebook, twitter
etc
Gogglebox
15. Task
• To what extent are these texts ‘Panopticon’s?
• How does the feeling change for the audience vs. the people being
watched?
• Are the people in the texts (contestants/people’s profile) real or
hyperreal? How? Why?
• How does it feel watching these texts?
• The audience are voyeurs; are they dependant on observing others? Why?
• How is the audience ‘in control’ while watching/observing these texts?
17. Summary of Focualt
Voyeurism (the act of
watching) changes the way
people behave/present
themselves
Reality TV reflects a
voyeuristic Postmodern
society
Social Networking and the
internet give us greater
control over voyeurism
18. Homework – Due _____
• Choose 1, 2, 3 of the ‘texts’ today.
• Task: Write a written response applying Focault’s theory
– Start essay by explaining context of the panopticon and
Focault’s theory (main points)
– Use the questions as prompts
– If doing 2-3 texts, compare similarities/differences
– About 1-1 ½ pages
