SP 275 Media Criticism - Week 1

8/14/2019 SP 275 Media Criticism - Week 1

1/16

Media Criticism

There can be no words

without images.

Aristotle, 384 - 322 B.C

Sumerian Beer Record-keeping around 4000 B.C


2/16

Media Criticism

How does media figure intoour identities? Culture

Gender Race

Age

Economics

Who are you and what doesthat say about how youview media?


3/16

Media Criticism

What does this picture

say to you?

Is there one answer?


4/16

Media Criticism

How did specific art,music, movies, and/orbooks influence youwhen you wereyounger?

How did it affect orchange you? Why wereyou drawn to it? How doyou feel about it today?


5/16

Media Criticism

What are the functions

of media today?

News? Entertainment?

Art?

Participation - anyone

can

Wiki ScannerCalTech graduate student Virgil Griffith built a

search tool that traces IP addresses of those who

make Wikipedia changes
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/


6/16

Media Criticism

Functions of media Introduces you to a much

bigger group of people/peers

Guttenberg & the PrintingPress

Textur Typeface Mimicked Scribes

Printed in Latin

Mostly 42-Line Columns

Two Volumes Weighing 50

Pounds, 11 x 16 Inches Each Four Years in the Making

Only 48 Exist Today

Introduced in 1456


7/16

Media Criticism

Media 2.0

To remain

anonymousor notPerez Hilton

Drudge Report
http://www.perezhilton.com/http://www.drudgereport.com/http://www.drudgereport.com/http://www.perezhilton.com/


8/16

Media Criticism

Had some record label interestand was signed in 2005 butrecord was not promoted

Created a MySpace page andposted demos

Received her first mainstreammedia coverage because ofMySpace

Initial requests to recordcompany were greeted withbefuddlement as few in thecompany knew who she was

Lily Allen's MySpace Page
http://www.myspace.com/lilymusichttp://www.myspace.com/lilymusic


9/16

Media Criticism

Crafting your identity -

with feedback

Request for individualattention

Technoboyjustin
http://www.youtube.com/user/technoboyjustinhttp://www.youtube.com/user/technoboyjustin


10/16

Media Criticism

Hoaxes - no longer an

issue?

A 16 year old video blogger

on YouTube outed as a trio

of filmmakers

Jessica Lee Rose (the

actress) featured on the

cover of Wired

Inspired a Law & Order

episode

lonelygirl15
http://www.lg15.com/lonelygirl15/?p=339http://www.lg15.com/lonelygirl15/?p=339


11/16

Media Criticism

This is why youre fa

Soon to be a book

10 million pageviews in the first

month
http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/


12/16

Media Criticism

Other blogs to

books


13/16

Media Criticism

MySpace suicide

Lori Drew, her teenage

daughter, and an 18-year-old

employee of the familycreated a fake MySpace

profile for a fictitious teenage

boy that they used to harass

one of Drew's daughter's

classmates, 13-year-old

Megan Meier who later

hanged herself.

Convicted of misdemeanors

but overturned on appeal


14/16

Media Criticism

The Facebook Bully

Keeley Houghton, 18,

recently became the first

person in Britain to be

convicted of bullying via a

social networking site

Given a three-month term of

detention and a restrainingorder banning her from

contacting Miss Moore in

person, via the internet or in

any other manner


15/16

Media Criticism

Model Liskula

Cohen went to court

and got Google toreveal blogger

Rosemary Ports

identity

Port is now suingGoogle for millions

Who is the victim?

Gawker's Coverage of the "Skank Wars."
http://gawker.com/tag/liskula-cohen/http://gawker.com/tag/liskula-cohen/


16/16

Media Criticism

Dottie Gets Spanked

Dir. By Todd Haynes (Far

From Heaven, Im Not

There)

Autobiographical film about

the 50s 60s suburban

experience from a male

point of view

Uses archetypes to get the

point across
http://www.herowithin.com/arch101.htmlhttp://www.herowithin.com/arch101.html

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SP 275 Media Criticism - Week 1