Chongzhou's Blog

Week 13

chongzhou — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:50:16 +0000

Student: Chong Zhou
Student Number: S2707135
Tutor: Anne Ferguson
This is final week of this semester. I finished my presentation with my partner Vicky. Today’s tutorial only has 8 people come to attend. This week I want mainly talk about culture, focus on the topic of my presentation.
Culture refers to the way of life of particular groups of people. It includes everything that a group of people thinks, says, does, and makes of its systems of attitudes and feelings. Culture is learned and transmitted from generation to generation. (Storti, 1990)
Culture is a controlling influence in the way we think, speak and behave. When these patterns of culture which are built into each of us, come in contact with different patterns of culture, conflict and disorientation are the result.The cultures of the East and the West really distinguish each other a lot. This is because the culture systems are two separate systems on the whole.
The origin of the eastern cultures is mainly from two countries: China and India. Both of the two cultures are gestated by rivers. In China, the mother river is the Yellow River while the Indian one is the Hindu River. These two cultures were developed for several thousand years and formed their own styles. Then in Dang Dynasty of China, the Chinese culture gradually went overseas to Japan, mixed into the Japanese society and shaped the Japanese culture nowadays. Though a bit different from the Chinese one, it belongs to the same system.
Other factors like human race difference counts as well. But what’s more, due to the far distance and the steep areas between the East and West, the two cultures seldom communicate until recent centuries. So they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no interference from the other.
Global culture – one world culture. The earth’s inhabitants will lose their cultural diversity and on culture will be experienced by all people
Culture Difference

Chinese Culture

Asian vs. Western Culture

Chinese Culture

Week10

chongzhou — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:48:47 +0000

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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Week9

chongzhou — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 06:45:31 +0000

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

week 8

chongzhou — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:44:38 +0000

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

week 7

chongzhou — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:10:46 +0000

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

Video

b-boxing
austrailian idol beat box

Week 6

chongzhou — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:01:58 +0000

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

week 5

chongzhou — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:00:06 +0000

Student: Chong Zhou
Student Number: S2707135
Tutor: Anne Ferguson
Tutorial Time: Tuesday 15:00-16:00 G30_1.18
Music is a business. But it’s not only a business. It’s part of who we are and how we express ourselves. It’s not just about money. It’s about people. Music plays a great role in our daily life. In today’s lecture we see the development of music .by the topic is mainly talked about music ,so I search some about music . music serves as an entertainment tool. For instance, in an occasion or event music play a vital role that makes the event to be lively for the people in that event. Similarly, it creates cordial relationship among the people. Moreover, it serves as a tool for corrective measure. That is, music tell the people on the habit that is uncultured so that such behavior can be for better. Furthermore, it is an agent that used to educate people. For example, if leader or people in control of a particular society are bad. Thus, music used to influence such leader that people under is control shows their conceived about it regime. However, it serves as tool for settle dispute between two or more people. This happen as a result where by there is an disagreement between two or more people, for that disagreements to put an end after discussion. Music is played for the group to show harmony among them .In fact, it serves as a source of income to human life. Also it is a profession of a particular classes of people. Lastly, music serves as a message or symbol that indicate that occurrence that is going on in a particular place or event
Anyway i like music.
web:pop music http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/
1MJ

2Lady gaga

3taylor swift

4 Chinese classical music

Week 4

chongzhou — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:28:34 +0000

Student: Chong Zhou
Student Number: S2707135
Tutor: Anne Ferguson
Tutorial Time: Tuesday 15:00-16:00 G30_1.18
Today’s lecture is main to talk about how meaning is produced.There are two processes involved, which Roland Barthes is largely responsible for first drawing attention to, though the terms are familiar enough nowadays: Denotation, the specific, literal meaning (the meaning to be found in the dictionary) established by convention (associated in semiotic thinking with the signifier) Connotation, figurative or suggested meanings held by individuals or groups. Barthes also calls these mythological meanings, because they rely not just on what the word or sign indicates but on some kind of belief system. The usual name for which is ideology, though it doesn’t have to be political ideology, just some kind of shared idea of how the world is.
We can also know that a code is any group of signs that function together to create an overall unit of meaning. Their relationship isn’t necessarily ‘natural’ but usage and repetition make it seem like it is. The meaning any coded sign communicates is always culturally determined.
In today’s tutorial, there are 2group of person play the presentation, the first person main to talk humans stereotypes, she explain her topic from men ,women ,children ,lesbian and gay. The second group mentioned about homosexual too. Their presentation made me know more about homosexual. As I know, in China there are few people can receipt gay/lesbian. Anyway, I think we should respect everyone in the world.
I find some video’s which mention about homosexual

D&G gay commercial “Time 2″

Week 3

chongzhou — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:16:18 +0000

Student: Chong Zhou
Student Number: S2707135
Tutor: Anne Ferguson
Tutorial Time: Tuesday 15:00-16:00 G30_1.18
In today’s lecture I learned about Peirce’s Terminology, Reprautaurea which means the signifier ,the trace or sound of the world and the image; interpretaut which means the meaning or the concept ,Refereat is the object in the world referred to by the sign .As mentioned the sign ,there are 3 forms of sign ,they are Icon, Index, Symbol. Icon is exlubits a duectelationship between sign and referent, Indes is the point to a relationship between sign and referent. Symbol has no necessary relationship between sign and referent.
In the tutorial，we discussed some advertisement ，try to find some things such as our thoughts ,felling s from the advertisement .although some advertisement I cannot understand what it says ,but I enjoyed my eyes. By the end of the tutorial, the tutor give us some advertisement pick from magazine s, let us discuss in group to talk about the advertisement. And than we should share our idea to classmates.
At the end, I will share some advertisement which I think is graat.
1 Funny Advertising – BMW

2 Beautiful CCTV-Music Channel Ad(China)
The screen is so beautiful.

3 IBM ad
The advertisement compared IBM and iPod.

Week 2

chongzhou — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:14:11 +0000

Student: Chong Zhou
Student Number: S2707135
Tutor: Anne Ferguson
Tutorial Time: Tuesday 15:00-16:00 G30_1.18

Because of I get up later, so I missed lecture today. Today’s tutorial tutor and classmates shared many wonderful videos to us. I like this kind of class, in my country, it is impossible. We discussed these videos, so today I just want share the video which I think is great ,I hope it can enjoy your eyes .
1 You Can Shine
This video is talked about a story of a deaf and mute girl who learns to play the violin against all odds. I like the spirit of the girl .we can be shine, too.

2Dog and Monkey Do Sit-Ups
The animal is so cute! It made me cannot stop laughing!

3 Lday Gaga