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This week’s topic is Media Crime and Celebrity. I am interesting about this topic. In nowadays and society, Celebrities have an important impact on society and culture. Some celebrities have the political and social power to influence people’s daily lives. Now a society, media productions is around us, such as TV programmes, broadcastings, newspapers and magazine articles and some others.
More Celebrities Are Getting NYC Gun Permits, Paper Says. The New York Daily News says the number of celebrities, millionaires and high-profile athletes authorized to carry a concealed weapon in the city is growing. To get a permit, applicants have to prove a documented threat or that they routinely carry large amounts of cash or valuables. Unfortunately, many people are not responsible with their guns due to lack of education and awareness. Just because you’re a celebrity, doesn’t mean you know how to properly handle a weapon
Department of Media, Culture and Communication Crime, Violence and Media.
In my country，lot of celebrity make crime because of drunk driving and dug. This deeply affects their image in people’s minds
The Michael Jackson Conspiracy – Why the Media Wanted a Guilty Verdict

Richard Heene

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Every year, nationwide, 35,000 missing person reports are filed – the equivalent of one every 15 minutes.
Of the 11,000 people reported missing each year in NSW, 95 per cent are found within a week.
But the state has 789 missing people, 592 of them considered long-term.
International Missing Children’s Day, 25 May, is a day where people around the world commemorate the missing children who have found their way home, remember those who have been victims of crime, and continue efforts to find those who are still missing.
The main purpose of International Missing Children’s Day is to encourage everyone to think about children who remain missing and to spread a message of hope.
Australia, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Romania, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom, member countries the Global Missing Children’s Network, have joined to raise awareness of the impact and issue surrounding missing children and to help bring them home by spreading a global message.
The theme for International Missing Children’s Day 2010 is parental child abduction, an issue that is not only complex but is becoming more common.
MISSING CHILDREN VIDEO

Haleigh Cummings 911 Call Missing Child, Age 5, Satsuma, FL

Student: Chong Zhou
Student Number: S2707135
Tutor: Anne Ferguson
Tutorial Time: Tuesday 15:00-16:00 G30_1.18
By the lecture and the course reading talked about representation and language. I want to say something about body language. “Body language” is a kind of nonverbal communication with the richest meanings and great function. Like verbal language, it is also a part of culture. But not all body languages mean the same thing in different cultures. Different people have different ways of making nonverbal communication. For example: different people have different ideas about the proper distance between people conversing; the appropriateness of physical contact varies with different cultures. One could draw up quite a list of “rules” about eye contact: to look or not to look; when to look and how long to look; who and who not to look at.
The tutorial I knew a new world “second life”, at first I do not understand what the meaning of “second life”. After I understand, I try to find my second life, but no result, maybe I do really cannot understand about second life. But I played a game which called sim life. maybe I can find my second life in there,

Body language

MR Been

Student: Chong Zhou
Student Number: S2707135
Tutor: Anne Ferguson
Tutorial Time: Tuesday 15:00-16:00 G30_1.18
In this week, I try to tale about Subcultures. Subcultures are characterized by a total lifestyle, often involving parody of the dominant culture: the `moods’ parodied the trappings of the upwardly mobile. Skinheads parody the model worker, rejecting one of the major postwar myths – that Britain is a classless, contented society where everyone has a place. They also, however, marginalize black culture, which properly belongs at the centre of Britain’s postwar music. Reggae, still the dominant music of poor blacks, turns the sordid realities of poverty and exile into what Jean Genet called `signs of grandeur’. Black aspirations to be assimilated into a new middle class were rejected in favor of dreadlocks, tams (knitted woolly hats) and ganja (marijuana). Punk undermined the idea of the lone creative artist. Rather than setting up an alternative philosophy like reggae, punk confronted the whole value system of the dominant culture. Dress and body decoration were parodic of conventional style, often using materials recovered from the waste systems of modern society. Finally, the spiky hair and safety pins mimicked the extremes of display and disfigurement entailed in the pursuit of high fashion.“Ethnic” music is the sounds of a usually exotic and supposedly isolated culture. Techno has all the features of a subculture, in language (obscenity, codenames etc.), dress (baggy trousers, peaked caps, basketball shoes) and resistance to the status quo (raves, E-taking etc.).Women singers such as Chrissy Hinde and Sinead O’Connor are more in control of their images, and therefore of their lives, than other female icons.
Reference list

http://www.consumerpsychologist.com/cb_Culture.html

http://www.subculture.it/

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

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austrailian idol beat box

Student: Chong Zhou
Student Number: S2707135
Tutor: Anne Ferguson
Tutorial Time: Tuesday 15:00-16:00 G30_1.18
“Music, Technology, community, Identity” is one of the course reading this week .several weeks before I had already talked something about music. So I do really know what to say this week.As we all know, music play a important role in our daily life. The amount of music in our “soundscape” has increased vastly in recent decades. We are not only exposed to music via the radio, tapes and CD’s, it is also an essential part of traditional television programmes and cinema films, as well as being an integral part of television advertising “Independence is a much invoked term in the music world, and its cooptation by the industry all too often corrupts and invalidates whatever real meaning the word possesses. Independence is an empty pose to the extent it does not relate critically and stand in opposition to the homogenising force of corporatism and culture commodification.” Furthermore, music has intruded more and more into public space. Music is one of the oldest forms of human communication, a human universal to be found in all cultures at all times, it is in many ways the most global aspect of the “global village”. Music has many facets and many uses, but it is generally acknowledged that its primary appeal is to the emotions
1 Popstar Madonna caused a real controversy in the field of cultural studies. n the 1980′s much was written about her stylistic combination of assertive femininity with traditional erotic symbolism. While some researchers were highly critical of Madonna, accusing her of pandering to and reinforcing traditional gender stereotypes (usually on the basis of content analyses and critiques), others reported ethnographic studies indicating that many adolescent girls were identifying more with the “assertive successful female — yet still feminine” aspect of Madonna’s style.
2 Susan Boyle – Britains Got Talent

3 Kesha