Is Disney Princess Culture Bad for Our Daughters?.
Great for the topical debate of the moment: are brands over-sexualising young children too early on? Links in well with David Cameron’s latest policy on this topic. (See earlier posts) . Check out the great title of the book mentioned: “Cinderella ate my daughter…”!!
Seen as this is big news this week I thought I ought to post something about it. Any of this content will provide fantastic secondary research for all Comms and Media students looking at topics in this field.
Crackdown on companies guilty of sexualisation of children – Telegraph.
David Cameron backs proposals tackling sexualisation of children | Society | The Guardian.
The Conservative Government starts to crack down on advertising & images aimed at influencing children.
http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/reality-tv/louise-redknapp-in-the-truth-about-size-zero/
Louise Redknapp discovers first hand the dangers of the current obsession with being stick thin when she undertakes an extreme crash diet and exercise regime in an attempt to drop to a US dress size zero in just 30 days.
Anorexics find Posh a ‘thinspiration’ | Mail Online.
Anyone studying WAGs or anorexia, celebrity or female beauty should be interested in this. Good key word to impress examiners
Ryan Giggs: How the UK press reported the saga | Media | guardian.co.uk.
Yet more on the media debates and wider issues surrounding privacy and social networking, flagged up by the Ryan Giggs super-injunction case.
Another academic approach to facebook and other Social Networking sites. This time the focus is on language and the ways in which uses of language are shifting.
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/hosting/ijets/journal/V7N2/pdf/Article4-HarrisonThomas.pdf
An excellent video I found on youtube posted by the Media Education Foundation.
If you are considering Media Studies or comms at university, this post on We Study Media has a good analysis of the key data relating to these subjects, as published by The Guardian. It looks at important considerations such as entry tarriff, student satisfaction, staff/student ratio and more.
Guardian data: University guide 2011: Media studies, communications and librarianship | Education | guardian.co.uk.
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An article about the dangers of using facebook , which interestingly says nothing for how it affects our day to day lives. this is a more of a legal standpoint. Basically Facebook is taking over the World!!
If you have a computer, you’re probably on Facebook. You’re networking with friends, adding personal details, storing your email address & cell phone number, uploading pictures, and much more.
But have you bothered to read Facebook’s Terms of Service (“TOS”) or Privacy Policy? What legal relationship have you agreed to? Who has access to your data and personal details?
Thanks to Chris Brogan, I started asking these questions. Then I waded through their terms and policies. Here are some things I found.
4. You’re giving up a HUGE license
Facebook thrives (in part) because of the content users post there. But did you know that posting content gives Facebook a license to do whatever they want with your content?
By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
In plain English, this means you’re giving up copyright control of your material. If you upload a photo to Facebook, they can sell copies of it without paying you a cent. If you write lengthy notes (or import your blog posts!), Facebook can turn them into a book, sell a million copies, and pay you nothing. This deserves careful consideration!
