Media - Propaganda in North/South Korea

'Al-Jazeera English' rocks hard, they do some interesting documentaries and also give you global weather forecasts that enable you to find out just how unbearably hot it is in Saudi Arabia at any given time.  Today I am generously providing you with this link:

This is the link I'm talking about

which will take you to a documentary from their 'Listening Post' series which features reports on 'the propaganda war between the two Koreas'.  That's in the second half, the first half is about the Occupy Wall St Movement which is probably also worth a look but I haven't watched that bit yet so don't come crying to me if it's no good.

Media Control - Broadcast Blues DOCUMENTARY

A scathing look at the state of American broadcasting today.

In a no holds barred exposé, veteran journalist Sue Wilson explains how the predominantly conservative corporations controlling talk radio are influencing American public opinion and actually changing the way we vote. She details how false and vitriolic hate campaigns are broadcast as legitimate news reports and laments the lack of government controls which should ensure radio and television broadcasters are upholding their public interest obligations.

Through a series of vignettes, Wilson shows how media policy changes, stemming from the Reagan era, have corrupted American news, information, and even public safety. She gives as a prime example, the recent Fox News court ruling that news does not have to be true.

link to short video about 'news does not have to be true' here.


Wilson says it is up to the public to hold broadcasters as well as the government regulators accountable in order to “take the media back”.

Winner of the Sacramento International Film Festival

Directed and Produced by: Sue Wilson
Part 1

Part 2

Media Control - Occupy Wall Street

Discussion of the media portrayal of the Occupy Wall Street Protests, implying that the coverage was heavily influenced by corporate power.  All done in the first ten minutes...

Watch it here!

And here is Naomi Woolf discussing how some journalists are being stopped from reporting on the Occupy protests.  Here is an article about lobbying firms offering (for money!) to spread negative propaganda about the movement.

Take that, hippies!

Beyond Current Horizons website

Thanks to Mr A. Duncan of Sandhurst, Berkshire, a concerned citizen and well known local oddball, we have the opportunity to access this internetular link which provides some essays on sociology/identity/culture and whatnot.  Here's one on Class:

Class/Media Representations

Have a look around the site, see what else you find.

60% of chart pop acts are privately educated...and Olympic athletes are not much better.

Yes, it's almost a year old so I can't claim to have my finger on the pulse but this news article is interesting...

Marxism, false consciousness, the illusion of a meritocracy, the relentless march of the bourgeoisie etc etc?  Discuss...

BBC 28 Jan 2011

Laa dee daa floppy haired fops.

Bang-up-to-date fodder for the class war can be found in this Daily Telegraph article here.  Which includes terryifying statistics such as 'In the last three Olympic games, an average of 50 per cent of medal winners were educated at public school (while) just seven per cent of the general populace went through the private school system'.

"Sociology of Hip-Hop: Jay-Z" Course

As you know, I am very much 'down with tha kidz' and I have been referred to as a 'playa' by such people as Sir Mixalot and my Mother.  In my relentless attempt to remain 'street' and 'urban' I have decided to post a link to this sociology course to remind you that sociology is everywhere and it's not just some boring subject you're studying at school to delay your inevitable entry into the terrifying world of work.  Keep it real, homeyz!

Jay Z is sociological!

Sociology RESOURCES

This site is full of information, resources, revision notes etc. It's designed for teachers but it will be very useful for students too.  You have to sign up for it but that only takes a few seconds so make an effort and do it.


Sociology Exchange

Media - Muslims and Paedophiles - the new 'folk devils'?

This newspaper is not even worth 20p

There's an interesting article here about the media portrayal of Muslims/Islam...

Read it here, numpties!


and here!

And here's some information on moral panics in general and the current panic about paedophiles...

Here!

The Sun fights the menace of 'pervs' by aiming to put
at least one semi-naked woman on every single page.

MediaWatch

Watching the media...

MediawatchUK

Media Effects on Audience

The Killing Screens: Media & the Culture of Violence (six minute video)
(as mentioned in the Collins A2 textbook Media effects chapter)

Watch it here!


Children as young as four re-enacting violent computer games

Sociological Theories BOOK

You can read this wiki book on theories such as FUNCTIONALISM, MARXISM AND FEMINISM.  This will help you get a better understanding of the subject and this will help you get higher grades! 

Read it here! Yeah!

Gender Identity Media DOCUMENTARY

Here's a documentary for AS and A2 about the media effects on Feminine Gender Identity, it's quite famous among the sort of people who watch this kind of thing...

Killing Us Softly 3
Jean Kilbourne continues her groundbreaking analysis of advertising’s depiction of women in this most recent update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series. In fascinating detail, Kilbourne decodes an array of print and television advertisements to reveal a pattern of disturbing and destructive gender stereotypes. Her analysis challenges us to consider the relationship between advertising and broader issues of culture, identity, sexism, and gender violence.

Watch it here!


Or the updated version 'Killing Us Softly 4' (2010) parts 1 and 2:

part 1

part 2

If you need an incredibly basic introduction to the topic of Gender Socialisation, there's a seven minute youtube video made by a child here...

Gender Socialisation

Here's a website that collects resources and whatnot on MEDIA and IDENTITY

Click here, chumps!

Here's some BBC ARCHIVE films about FEMINISM and the Feminist Movement, changing ideas about the role and status of women in Society. The 'Pussy Cat Club' clip is worth watching...

BBC Archive - Feminism

Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom

Keeping an eye on power, ownership and control in the media, amongst other things...

Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom

Marxist and Pluralist Media Theory

Marxist Media Theory

Pluralist and Marxist Theories of the Mass Media: An Introduction