News and Me

Question for week 4 task is “how often do you read news?”. Well, how often do I read news?

When I’m still in Jakarta, my family subscribes the daily newspaper and my father said to my sister and me that everyday we have to always AT LEAST browse through the pages and read the headlines and tittle, so we know what’s going on. It has become my habit every morning before I go to school, the paper always in the dining table and I skim through it and read the news that interests me while eating my nice breakfast my mom made. And also at night, my father and mother like to watch the evening news and sometime I sit with them. Well, telling this story makes me miss home a little bit, hiks :’( .

Now, I’m not home anymore. I don’t subscribe to the daily newspaper, there’s nobody here to remind me to read it like my father did, and nobody’s preparing breakfast for me to enjoy while I’m reading it! Hahahaha… I know that’s shouldn’t be a reason. But thank God to the high speed internet and blackberry on my hand, I have e-newspaper! Yeaay! However, for me, reading news from internet is not as convenience as read it in the paper. I like it better from the paper. Well, at least it keeps me update about what’s going on.

I rarely watch the news on tv when I’m in Indonesia, even less here. I know more about what’s going on in Indonesia than in Malaysia, because I prefer to read Indonesian news. But I try to be updated about news and current events in Malaysia and all around the world, at least the big one. I try to still follow my father’s advice.

I think it’s very important to be update. It’s good for my own so I have more open minded and intelligent mind. Moreover, I study in international university and my friends is from everywhere around the world. So I can have nice conversation with them and I know what’s going on in their country. And honestly, I don't want to look or feel stupid when people talk about something that I don't know about. 

Theatre as a Media Form

Traditional Theatre

Movie theatre

Outdoor Theatre

The word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, “a place for viewing”) and θεάομαι (theáomai, “to see", "to watch", "to observe”).

Theatre is a building where theatrical performance or a motion picture shows can be presented. It usually has rising tiers of seat for the audience. On the past, theatre only known for live performances, like musical, drama, opera, magician, or even speech, where the performers can interact with the audience.

However, nowadays the performance shown on the theatre is not always live, like the room for watching movies on the cinema is also a theatre. Some performance groups perform in non-theatrical spaces. Such performances can take place outside or inside, in a non-traditional performance space, and include street theatre, and site specific theatre. Non-traditional venues can be used to create more immersive or meaningful environments for audiences. They can sometimes be modified more heavily than traditional theatre venues, or can accommodate different kinds of equipment, lighting and sets. 

How theatre communicates the message to audience is, I think, depends on the show shown. If the show is drama or movies or opera, the message is usually very clear, it has direct message or single message that usually all the audiences will understand. The message is the moral from the show itself. But if it’s a dance show, or a magic show, or a musical show, the message is depends on how the audience feels about the show. Different feeling can interpret different message. However, all the show that is shown on the theatre is usually just a media from the producer or the creator to deliver the message to us, except it is a lecture or a speech, then the message is directly delivered by the person itself.

Source

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre

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Different Social Groups, Different Media Forms

4 different social group and media they use

1. Elementary student

Elementary student (student at age 6-12) are not usually use advanced media form yet. They usually still use text book to learn, printed magazine, and also TV for entertainment.

2. College Student

College student usually already has advance technology. They dont use printed books anymore, but e-book and every information they get from internet. So the media they use is computer, laptop, website, and smartphone.

3. Housewives

 If I see my mom as a housewives, she not to advanced on current technology, and the media she usually use is handphone, TV, magazine, newspaper, and books.

4. Business man

I think business man needs an advanced tech for media, such as laptop, ipad, smartphones, and so on.

Forms of Media

10 different forms of media..

1. Poster 

Poster is a printed media, it contains text or image or both. It's usually use to advertise or to give info, that's why poster design has to be interesting and catchy.

(http://mos.totalfilm.com/images/1/10-greatest-movie-posters-ever-made-02-420-75.jpg)

2. Television

Television is an electronic media that contains moving image, animation, and sound. It's normally used for entertainment and advertising

(http://buildaroo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/television-energyguide.jpg)

3. Newspaper

Newspaper is a printed media that usually published everyday. Most of the content is for news, but there are also other articles and advertisement

. (http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/25/93825-004-A21EC811.jpg)

4. Magazine

Magazine is a printed media that's generally published on a regular schedule. It has variety in content and each magazine usually has each specific content, like magazine for fashion, gossips, football, camera, or news. 

(http://cdn.themogulmom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/magazines-press.jpg)

5. Banner

Banner is a piece of clothes or vinyl or other fabric and content a symbol, logo, slogan, or other message. It usually use to advertise something, for marketing or campaigning purpose. 

(http://deniskomputer.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/pengen-buat-pin-spanduk-digital-murah-berkualitas-0.jpg)

6. Telephone

Telepphone is a telecommunication media that transmit and receives sound

(http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/telephone.htm)

7. Website

Website is a set of related web pages containing content such as text,images, video, audio, etc. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a privatelocal area network through an Internet address.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website)

8. Pamphlet

A pamphlet is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding). It may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths (called a leaflet), or it may consist of a few pages that are folded in half and saddle stapled at the crease to make a simple book. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamphlet)

(http://www.graphicdesign.hostei.com/pamphlet/pamphlet3.jpg)

9. Book

A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side.

(http://www.techteem.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/harry-potter-bookseries.jpg)

10. Radio

Radio is the wireless transmission of signals, it transmit information using only sound.

(http://swearimnotpaul.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/radio.jpg)

Definitions

The definition of: 
1. Cross Disciplinary 

•  Cross-disciplinary refers to knowledge that explains aspects of one discipline in terms of another (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciplinary#Cross-disciplinary)
• cross-disciplinary involving two or more academic disciplines (http://dictionary.infoplease.com/cross-disciplinary)

2. Trans Disciplinary 

•  pertaining to or involving more than one discipline; interdisciplinary (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/transdisciplinary)
• involves the combining of two or more academic disciplines into one activity (e.g. a research project). It is about creating something new by crossing boundaries, and thinking across them.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdisciplinary)
• Describing a study which runs across traditional subject boundaries such as arts and science.
  (http://www.answers.com/topic/transdisciplinary#ixzz2AtIEY5OK)

3. Qualitative Research

• Qualitative researchers study things in their natural settings, attempting to make sense of, or to interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them (Denzin 1994). Qualitative research is intended to penetrate to the deeper significance that the subject of the research ascribes to the topic being researched. It involves an interpretive, naturalistic approach to its subject matter and gives priority to what the data contribute to important research questions or existing information. (http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/cochrane/handbook500/chapter_20/20_2_1_definition_of_qualitative_research.htm)
• Qualitative research is a method of inquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, traditionally in the social sciences, but also in market research and further contexts.[1] Qualitative researchers aim to gather an in-depth understanding of human behavior and the reasons that govern such behavior. The qualitative method investigates the why and how of decision making, not just what, where, when. Hence, smaller but focused samples are more often needed than large samples. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research)

4. Ethnographic Studies

• Methods of qualitative research developed by anthropologists, in which the researcher attends to and interprets communication while participating in the research context. (http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/ethnographic+studies)