A Block Legal Studies - We are back in the Learning Commons / Library to work on our criminal law memo activity. It is due this week, right? Like Wednesday! You should be on your second case now. Please look at the blog posts for weblinks and assistance on the memo format along with resources for your discussion section. You'll have your final collaborative test on Wednesday and then we'll watch Just Mercy on Thursday/Friday. That means you get your final exam (civil litigation assignment) next Monday and will have 13 classes to get it finished.
B Block Criminology - Remember, I asked you to track your media consumption for 24 hours. So for you...at the end of each chunk of time (8 am to 12 pm; 12 pm to 4 pm; 4 pm to 8 pm; 8 pm to midnight; and if necessary midnight to wakey time) that you are awake for one day I'd like you to write down what media format you interacted with for that time and guesstimate how much time you interacted with it. I know that you are a generation of multi-taskers (and that you are interacting with this blog right now) so try to be as honest as you can about what you consume/interact with.
"Did you accurately predict your daily media consumption"?
In your response to this question explain how much you thought you'd consume, then identify the actual amount. Next, identify what surprised you about your findings and explain how you consume it (do you multi-task - streaming video with listening to music while gaming and commenting about it via social networking? Do you single-task or immerse yourself in one format/content - watch one webisode or episode of something with no other media? Do you binge - save your media consumption for one dedicated time period? Do you nibble or graze - watch little bits sporadically throughout the day?). Do you mostly consume "user created" media product (You Tube, Tumblr, Facebook, SnapChat, Sound Cloud) or do you consume "mainstream" media products (cable television, Internet websites, radio or online radio like XM, Spotify or Songza, magazines or newspapers)? Finally, are you always "on" or do you "unplug" (in other words are you continually checking, reading, creating, consuming) How do the number of hours you spend online every day, the types of online content you view, and your motivations for where you spend your time online shape your everyday behaviour? (HINT** Look at points 1-8 below to help)
Please review page 16 of the text (in the pdf it's page 52) Media &Culture: Mass Communication in a Digital Age which deals with Media Convergence.
From the Media Literacy and Critical Thinking document, Long term Effects of Media may include...
- Generalizing: Media can influence new and novel behaviours in a generalized, long-term manner.
- Triggering: Exposure to affluent lifestyles in media and high levels of advertising of consumer goods teachers viewer over time that in order to be happy you need to attain those things.
- Malformed Super-Ego: The superego is something that is acquired through experience as people learn what is acceptable in society. Viewers are exposed to many different value systems, as there are channels. Also, media gives viewers no discipline or feed back on their behavior which leaves them to develop their own superego value system.
- FOMO: Fear of Missing Out drives much of our media interactions, especially with texting and social networking. Over time, compulsions to “interact” online can lead to anxiety, feelings of inadequacy, stress. This creates an unfortunate feedback loop- feeling inadequate? seek out more media to make yourself feel better!
- Addiction: Media is particularly well-suited to developing addictions. Instant gratification, emotional dependency, preoccupation, delay of negative effects, and cravings or compulsions can all affect mental and social well-being. There is particular concern over video-game addiction; compulsive playing can lead to social isolation, lack of imagination, mood swings, and even a blurring of reality.
- Cultivation of Fear: Heavy exposure to negative and violent portrayals lead people to construct unrealistically high estimates of risk of victimization and a corresponding belief that the world is a mean and violent place.
- Training: Media shapes our behavior by training us. Over time, viewers seek out the same types of actions the reinforce the conditions they have been exposed to.
- Learning Social Norms: People can generalize a pattern from individual media exposures without that pattern being a social norm. When viewers are repeated exposed to violence in media, a person overestimates the rate of crimes that are cleared by arrest. Although these are generalizations, they are not social norms. Social norms are generalized patterns from social information, rather than factual information. Social norms deal more with the rules of behavior in social situations rather than with society’s factual parameters. Sheer repetition of violent portrayals is enough to lead people to generalize that violence is typical way of dealing with problems in society.
From page 521 of the "Media & Culture: Mass Communication in a Digital Age" book linked above:
Many believe that media have a powerful effect on individuals and society. This belief has led media researchers to focus most of their efforts on two types of research: media effects research and cultural studies research....cultural studies. This research approach focuses on how people make meaning, apprehend reality, articulate values, and order experience through their use of cultural symbols. Cultural studies scholars also examine the way status quo groups in society, particularly corporate and political elites, use media to circulate their messages and sustain their interests. This research has attempted to make daily cultural experience the focus of media studies, keying on the subtle intersections among mass communication, history, politics, and economics.Check out this Media Usage Calculator
C Block Human Geography - Today we'll look at the key question "Why Do Territorial Conflicts Arise Among Religious Groups"? It probably comes as no surprise that various conflicts have occurred between religions and governments and between governments or ethnicity using religion as an excuse. We'll try to understand religious conflict with three examples:
- Hinduism, the Caste System and social equality (tradition vs modernism);
- The "Troubles" in Northern Ireland (sectarian violence Catholic vs Protestant); and
- China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama (religion, culture, language, environment, oppression and control)
D Block Physical Geography - We will continue our look at winds and pressure circulations. We'll understand where the permanent areas of high and low pressure are on the planet and figure out what that means for a macro-scale pressure gradient wind pattern. We'll also talk about the Horse Latitudes, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Doldrums. Lastly, we'll work on an activity called “Air: The High and Low of it”. You will need to complete questions 19 and 21 from page 177 in your Geosystems textbook.
To Help:
UCAR The Highs and Lows of Air Pressure
Weather Works High and Low Pressure
UK Met Office High and low pressure
UCAR The Highs and Lows of Air Pressure
Weather Works High and Low Pressure
UK Met Office High and low pressure
And:
Don't forget that every day we are going to start by looking at the synoptic forecast along with weather maps.
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