Reflections

       To start to blogging with the serious type of topic that are covered with issues and theoretical knowledge around the world was a big challenge for me. In fact, I have never touch and create any type of blog writing before, obviously, I am in inexperience to create a blog that are totally shows attractiveness and informatively . 

       During the time in blogging writing, I use a lot of time to look for the way to create a good weblog to let my audience enjoy with my writing or design, besides that, I use to search lot of information and theoretical sources to support my idea too. 

       For truth, blog design is the important tool to attract our audiences. By this assignment, I learned the way to show my article with the right images and videos to illustrate more clearly on my explanation and a good layout design. According to Kress and Van Leeuwen(2006,p. 17), “ Most text now involved a complex interplay of written text, images and other graphic or sound elements, designed as entities by mean of layout.

      As a blogger, we should know how to choose the topic that are suitable for the content of the blog. No matter which type of blog are you doing, which kind of content are you telling, bloggers need to clearly classify the purpose that you are going to write and the fully information that are useful for audiences. If anything goes right, for sure, you audiences will not feel any confusing on your post and may get interest to keep reading on your blog post. 

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References list

1. Kress, G & van Leeuwen, T 2006, 'Chapter 1: The semiotic landscape: language and visual communication' in Reading images, pp. 17: the grammar of visual design, 2nd edn, Routledge, London.

Blogger held over insulting posting

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Why blog is so important and popular in our life? This question is always appearing on my mind even I am the blogger too. I always wonder why people will like to create their own blog and type whatever they want. Obviously, you can choose whatever topic you like to share, whatever comment you like to post in your own blog post, but we have to beware on the message that we post which may insulting others people with unmoral ways.

According to the news from NewStraitsTime, 2010 indicated that a boy from Johor has been arrested on January 2010, because he posted an allegedly insulting comment on his blog following the demise of the late sultan of Johor. The blogger had used insulting words in commenting on how the announcement of the death of the late sultan of Johor was made and this happen maybe influence the image of Malaysia itself, so the police in Malaysia had confirmed the arrest and try to build up the image of Malaysia.

                Blog is for us to create our personal diary, to share some opinion about something, business, political or categories that we like to share and etc. According to HughHewitt, (2005 pg. 105) said that the reason of bloggers blog is because they want to persuade, and to leave a record of having been there. Yes, we have the right to write any words that we like to, but to be a successfully blogger that makes people admire or likes, we have to more concern on the words that we wrote and with etiquette. As a good blogger, Blogging Etiquette is important for us to learn how to respect people on internet even in reality life. For truth, I know that, everyone will hear about the blogging etiquette, but how many of us will really understand about it?

             

           Referring to Zona Marie Tan, (2007) wrote that, as a blogger we have to bear in mind that you’re writing for a global audience. Even though your blog may be a personal one, it’s still public and accessible to anyone. In addition, blogger don't make your blog an excuse to make a personal attack on someone. Remember the old saying "If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all."

           

           In my opinion, the blogging etiquette is important for blogger when writing a post. Besides blogger, as a commenter or audience, we need to learn how to respect on other people’s blog too because your words are representing about your personal behavior, attitude and knowledge. For more serious, your words maybe represent the image of your country. For example, Malaysian writes something bad about china on the blog, so that people in china will against Malaysia and not planning to invest to Malaysia. 

             

            ZonaMarie Tan, (2007) explained that, rude and childish behavior just because you’re an anonymous commenter or are behind a pseudonym is unacceptable. As much as a good manner is required in the real world, it works the same in the blogosphere.

Lastly, as a blogger or audiences we need to always remember to respect other’s opinions and always think about people’s feeling before you make a post. If you want to share about your opinion on some sensitive topic, you need to use it in a mature way to explain your idea. Please think twice before you writing a post, and remember always use the words with etiquette.

References List

1. Hugh Hewitt  2005, [online], Blog: understand the understanding the information reformation that’s changing your world, ch. 6, pp. 105, viewed 10 Novemver 2010, available at:

http://books.google.com.my/books?id=lfveI4ppj0sC&printsec=frontcover&dq=blog&hl=en&ei=q5TfTM-HE8qPcZjixZcM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

2. Zona Marie Tan, 2007, [online], Blogging etiquette for Bloggers and Readers, viewed 11 November 2010, available at:

               http://www.suite101.com/content/blogging-etiquette-a22222

3.      Jassmine Shadiqe, 2010, [online] NewStraitsTimes: Blogger held over insulting posting, viewed 11 November 2010, available at:

http://yquake.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/articles/12eiss/Article/index_html

 

Blog Functions, Usability, & Audience Expectations, Newspaper Publishing...

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To getting more concern about the news around us and getting more knowledge about the world, newspaper is the best media for us to get more information by words and the authentic images.  Obviously, news are important for us by knowing the things that we do not know but follow the new trend, blogs are comes to helping or maybe replace the value of newspaper to transform the news with more attractiveness and effectiveness.

According to the article from Mediashift, 2010, Roland Legrand said that “Newsrooms Should Use Blogs to Battle Bloat, Complexity”.  Why blogs? Large newspapers are very complex organizations. Producing a newspaper involves a newsroom with reporters, editors, news managers, graphics editors, a picture desk, several layers of people and technology for the printing process, et, whereas in blogs, it is only use on maybe one or two journalist to write the articles and posting some images or video that are showing more reality. Running a blog is much simpler than producing a newspaper and website. Blogs started out as one-person projects and have developed into a formidable media form. If you want to get up-to-date news and analysis about technology, chances are that subscribing to the feeds of a number of tech blogs will help you more than reading mainstream newspapers (Roland Legrand, 2010).

Nowadays, readers are prefer to read a short article with full of images or video that can brings more effectiveness for them. As we all know, readers in new trend starting to become more and lazier on reading news with full of words, they will more interest in reading a page of article with colorful images and video with sounds. According to walsh( 2006, pp. 30) agreed that, Internet sites vary in the modes they use, but they have the potential to combine words and images in complex structures with logos, …video clips, graphics, music… Kress and Van Leeuwen(2006,pp. 17), also mentioned that “ Most text now involved a complex interplay of written text, images and other graphic or sound elements.

On the other hand, telling news with using video and soundtrack, it will be attract more interest and attention from audiences rather than reading words by words. Based on Gary P. Handman(2002, pp.5) said, video brings pictures, motion, sound, and timing to storytelling. Good video stories rely on more words, and use scenery and action to flesh out a story in ways that words may not do as well.

In fact, some of the newspaper already created their own blogs inside their web pages, for example, New Straits Time in Malaysia. It is useful for create a blogs which recover all the news around the world, because by follow the new trend and technology, I believe that blogs is the way that people more acceptable in future.

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References List

1. MediaShift 2010, [online], Newsrooms should use blogs to battle bloat, complexity, viewed 8 Nov 2010, available at:

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2010/04/newsrooms-should-use-blogs-to-battle-bloat-complexity112.html

2. Walsh, M 2006, ‘Textual shift: Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts,’ Australian journal of language and literacy, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 30.
3. Kress, G & van Leeuwen, T 2006, 'Chapter 1: The semiotic landscape: language and visual communication' in Reading images, pp. 17: the grammar of visual design, 2nd edn, Routledge, London.
4. Gary P. Handman, 2010, [online], Video collection development in multi-type libraries, chp 1, pp.5, viewed 8 Nov 2010, available at:

http://books.google.com.my/books?id=kPHWCv0KSrsC&pg=PA5&dq=video+rather+than+words&hl=en&ei=fLDeTO6jHsHBcZmrkJcM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=video%20rather%20than%20words&f=false

Facebook Privacy, Personal Data Protection Regulation

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Facebook is becoming a part of our life, what I always seen that, the people in the school or cyber café even me; myself will always “Facebook” must be came first when the line just connected. I love to share my life, photos, everything that related with me on the Facebook. Besides that, I like to stalk people’s facebook account to look around their updated information and life by everyday and month, but I didn’t notice that, facebook is irrupting our privacy although it had provided the function to lock your information as privacy, and I slowly becoming a stalker to stalk others information too.

Recently, an article reported on ABC News,2010 wrote that Facebook has admitted that some of its applications have been transmitting user information to advertising companies. For example, when you are playing some games or quiz on facebook, it will automatically pop out something that are asking you to choose whether you want to publish your information on facebook or not. If you pressing allow, which mean your information may automatically send it to the advertising companies.

According to King (2001, pg. 19) said that, internet is a world there have no specific people to take care of it, no specific control and people to take over the responsibility for it. So, as an internet user, we have to know how to use the way to protect our privacy by our self not depend on the website itself. Jeremiah Grossman (2008) indicated that, there is no longer privacy guarantee for people who sharing or uploading something online.

Besides sharing information to companies, we must be aware of stalker and hacker too. Stalker and hacker are totally involved in our daily life in anytime and anywhere. People who keep check other’s profile with their personal information or life, even you or me is counted as a stalker behavior. According to Wallace Wang (2006, pg. 189) indicated that, stalkers can be anyone, your neighbor, relative, stranger, etc, few of the stalkers have the motivation to pick a stranger at random…. Facebook even others social networking, there have to guarantee the security system for our privacy information, you, yourself is the way to keep your information as privacy as well.

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References List

1. ABC News 2010, [online], Facebook Admits Privacy Breach, viewed 7 Nov 2010, available at:

           http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/19/3042594.htm

2. Reddick, R, King, E, 2001, The Online Journalist: Using the internet and other electronic resources, 3rd edition, Harcourt College Publisher, United State of America . 
3. Jeremiah Grossman, 2008, [online], Jeremiah Grossman, viewed 7 November 2010, available at:

http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/

4. Wallace Wang 2006, [online], Steal this computer book 4.0, ch. 4, pg. 189,viewed 7 November 2010, available at:

http://books.google.com.my/books?id=nMwy2y_4VFcC&pg=PT207&dq=internet+stalker&hl=en&ei=kpneTOX1BYH5cfG22ZcM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=internet%20stalker&f=false

Time to kick sexism out of advertising

Advertising is use to promotes a product, service or event to its target audience by using visual printing, voice, text or graphic. (Sheri Cyprus,2010). For past year ago, advertising is using creative idea and graphic to grab the attention from audience, but nowadays, everyone are using sexist as a selling point, especially making something that are derogatory towards women.

  Based on Kathryn Perera, 2010 indicated that advertising are plays on gender stereotypes now. Many ads have a sexist and offensive tone or content especially showing the how sexy of women. Usually this is hidden behind a semblance of subtlety: the nakedness of the female character is loosely connected to the product in question; the gender stereotype is reinforced in an indirect or "knowing" way. These sexist images is become a part of our modern life, the sexist images of women are becoming more and more common.

 Besides the humiliate images about women, some of the text on advertisement are totally showing gender stereotyping, especially for women. For example, The campaign of World Cup advertising, wrote that "EXPLAIN YOUR FOOTBALL PASSION TO THE MISSUS. IF YOU CAN GET A SIGNAL IN SOUTH AFRICA" which mean, women are stupid, no matter how many ways are you using to explain the football passion to your girl’s friend, she will not receive the message from you, just like the poor signal in South Africa (Kathryn Perera , 2010).

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 Looking at such advertisements, occasionally, they main contain different group of information on the same page. In many times, the upper section of the page visualizes the ‘promise of the product’, the status of glamour it can gives on its users, or the sensory fulfillment it can bring. The lower section presents the product itself, providing some factual information about it or where it can be obtained. According to Kress and Van Leeuwen (1998), the concept of Ideal and Real, explains the information value of top and bottom page of an advertisement. They mentioned that the upper section tends to make some kind of emotional appeal and to show us ‘what might be’; while the lower section tends to be more informative  and practical, showing us the ‘what is’.

In my opinion, the concept of gender stereotyping are based on the different background of people with different knowledge even culture, so their view of the gender stereotyping which in differently. Me, myself as a Chinese, the view of the gender stereotyping in Chinese is more concern on traditional and serious way. As a traditional Chinese man even people in new trend, their mind concept is ‘women have to stay at home as a housewife rather than learn more things than men’. According to Schriver (1997, pg. 364) indicated that an individual act in that it depends critically on the reader’s (advertiser and people who sexism) unique knowledge, attitudes, and values.

Next, to avoid the gender stereotype in advertising even anywhere, we have to think some useful idea to solve the problem. Such as, provide the rights of women and bans the advertisement that relate with sexual, drugs and immoral suggestions.

References List

1. Kathryn Perera 2010, [online], Time to Kick Sexism Out of Advertising, viewed 7 Nov 2010, available at:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/29/kick-sexism-out-of-advertising

2. Shriver K.A 1997, Dynamics In Document Design, Creating Text for Readers: The Interplay of Words and Pictures: The Immediacy of Interpretation, Ch.6, pp. 364, Wiley Computer Pub., New York
3. Kress, Gunther & Theo van Leeuwen (1998): 'Front Pages: (The Critical) Analysis of Newspaper Layout'. In Allan Bell & Peter Garrett (Eds.): Approaches to Media Discourse. Oxford: Blackwell.