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Whilst writing my final essay for Politics of the Media, it dawned on me just how much of a crucial tool social media can be for some people and some places. Its almost wasted on me and how I use it. I am beyond obsessed with my phone, but if im honest it’s mainly just to keep in check with my friends and families fairly pointless Facebook statuses, Instagram posts, snapchats and other meaningless posts.
Though there is a lot of debate how much of an effective tool social media was in the Arab Spring, one thing can be said for sure. They make better use of it than I do and ever have. Not saying much i know, but it is actually quite humbling to read about its uses beyond showing the world your latest holiday snaps. Theorists list how it has the ability to reduce social and ethnic barriers to bring people together over a united cause. It gives people a feeling of empowerment and a hope that they could have the ability to ignite real change.
Successful or not, it is giving people hope which is so important it places that are so accustom to a life of suppression and misery. If there’s one thing I've learnt from this module, it’s to look at things more closely. In this case to see social media as more than just a shallow way to check in with other people lives.
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Pictures that make me weep for today's young women: SARAH VINE on how British society is in the grip of an out of control binge-drinking culture
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4080750/Pictures-make-weep-today-s-young-women-SARAH-VINE-British-society-grip-binge-drinking-culture.html
What a load of rubbish. A discriminatory, sexist, judgmental and archaic article. What I find hardest too believe is that this was written by a woman. Seriously?
The article itself is about binge drinking which I can understand, maybe the young generation does have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol but this article uses that issue as a cover up for their sexist opinion. This article singles out females as the only guilty party of this issue. I’m sure there were just as many heavily intoxicated males who also displayed shameless drunken behavior but is their any mention of that in this article. Absolutely not.
If i’m honest i’m not sure whether this article is an attack on binge drinking or an attack on woman having the same kind of fun that their male counterparts have. Unfortunately i think its the latter. It is articles like these that make me question how far we really have come in terms of gender equality?
Sadly, I think this is a paramount example of how the media manipulates images and stories to prosecute one particular group in society. Thankfully I think society has come on enough to see right through this. Though this may not relate directly to politics, its another example of the media attempting to manipulate societal views.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/chris-wright1/lets-put-the-dignity-back_b_13770928.html
There is no doubt the emergence of social media and its global grasp has had a number of astounding positive and progressive effects on society, and in this case politics. Here however, Chris Wright unpicks the not so positive effects of the dominant social media.
He lists that social media gives users a voice that they would not usually have the confidence to portray. This voice, usually negative, can escalate quickly to death threats and actually has a substantial effect on what and why people might post things. It is difficult to determine whether this a threat to freedom of speech or a direct effect of freedom of speech.
Wright also suggests that this had a causal effect on Brexit and the Trump phenomenon. As he said “ Lies were peddled online to discredit one side or the other, and purposefully spread through social media. These elections became about which side had the better digital bazookas to shoot out more toxic and destructive lies, rather than the issues themselves.”
He claims that this has destablised political debate and made it exceedingly hard for the public to find accurate, valid and reliable political information. If we perceive this claim to be accurate then this can be considered a serious threat to a properly functioning democracy, if there is such a thing?
#pom16
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38239739
It seems as though just about everybody is having there say on the Brexit debate. The article lists that ‘European newspapers see the danger of a hard brexit’ - is this not blindly obvious? Is this not why there is SO much debate on it.
For me, this article is nothing more than a load of disgruntled European journalists feeling the need to publicise their disapproval at the United Kingdoms decision to leave the European Union. Is this really a surprise to anyone? They’ve never been shy about voicing their concerns in the past?
Lets be honest, this is just the media adding more fuel to the already blazing fire.
#pom16
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Nice diagram showing the structure of the propaganda model
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38120596
“ Hate crime: Avoid polarising language, politicians urged”
It is difficult to determine whether this is really necessary, as i believe ‘polarizing language’ is part and parcel of politics and is not to blame for the surge in hate crimes. MP’s are never going to agree on everything, i mean its kind of the point of there position. I find it hard to believe polarized language has had a causal effect on the surge of hate crimes. The tragic and brutal murder of Joe Cox, was down to the acts of a physcotic lone wolf and not Jo Cox’s political stance. Yes, 2016 has been a turbulent political year but the responsibility of these hate crimes does not lie with politicians use of ‘polarised language’. I think, if anything, the blame lies more with the media and how they have reported these events rather than the politicians themselves. Essentially, they have a much larger influence on societies way of thinking than politicians do and ever have.
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