As discussed in my previous BCM241 blog post’s my chosen media niche is podcasts. Podcasts seen to many as the digital transition from radio started emerging roughly in the 1980’s-1990’s before catching hold in 2004 where the medium has seen an exponential growth in the past 15 years. Podcasts have also contributed to the increased …
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Ethical considerations & Background Research: Media Niche
The purpose of background research is to allow an ethnographer to discover relevant research that has already been done a topic. It is through conducting this background research that I was be better able to understand my media niche (Joe Rogan Podcasts) whilst also providing new perspectives towards my analytical framework and field research. As …
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Research Process: Media Niche
The purpose of a research process is to identify, locate, assess and analysis information to help your ethnographic research. To achieve this I must brake my research process down into three key elements: Problematise my approach when conducting a media ethnography My research plan The schedule of my research Problematisation As discussed in Week 2’s …
Narrowing my media niche
From my blog post in Week 1 where I selected a media niche. From that is a continuation in this blog post where I begin to narrow my research on that specific media niche to a field site. A field site is not just a single physical or online space, but a network of relations. …
BCM241: Media Niche
Media is powerful. Media when communicated correctly has the ability to change and shape peoples paradigm of the world. Essential meaning that through the spread of information and knowledge media has the ability to influence societies ideologies of the world we live in. My interest in media was evoked by media evolving into a digital …
Deceptive and Misleading advertisement
Deceptive and misleading advertisement is when a business makes false claims or impressions to consumers on price, value or quality of goods and services on offer. It is also unethical and illegal for business’s to engage in conduct that misleads or is deceptive to consumers under the Australian consumer law section 18. With this law …
The Public Sphere
Jurgen Habermas was responsible for creating “the public sphere” theory in 1962. The theory was essentially a space where individual’s in society most typically the middle class could find out what was happening regarding social, cultural and political issue’s. This space also allowed individual’s to engage in common concern’s and debate on idea’s for what …
Media Industries and Ownership
The main purpose of the media is to spread information and knowledge to society, but it is so much more powerful than that, with the media being so important because it has the ability to influence society. Helping shape people’s ideology of the world we live in. But the media is evolving into a digital …
Audience’s
“One of the most intriguing aspects of the media audience is that most media audience’s don’t exist”- Sue Turnbull. Compared to that of a highly visible and audible audience of a Nation Rugby League (NRL) match. Generally referred to as a crowd, NRL games mostly attract an audience of those fan’s whose two team’s are …
Digital Artefact
My digital artefact, Couplelablokes is a film based photography page on Instagram. Where I upload images taken by myself with content being centred around beach/surf culture, people and events. How it works ? The page work’s by uploading pictures previously or recently taken to Instagram daily that have been: Taken by myself Is film not …
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