MEST3 Exam

Media Magazine reading Read Playing With The Past: Post-feminism and the Media (MM40, page 64 - our  Media Magazine archive is here ). 1) What are the two texts the article focuses on? Pan Am - HBO series Beyonce- Why dont you love me 2) What examples are provided from the two texts of the 'male gaze' (Mulvey)? On the magazine cover, the Pan Am stewardesses are "highly constructed and mediated"- to be aspired by women and enjoyed by men. In the last sequence of the pilot episode, there is a shot of the stewardess' legs as they walk through the airport causing several men to glare at them as they walk past. This idea of the "male gaze" is therefore clear in this scene as the women's appearance e.g "perfectly coiffed hair and make up", attracts the male characters in the show. They appear like this only for the pleasure of men. However the stewardesses ignore these reactions and continue walking- showing that they are not affected by the

Tough new German law puts tech firms and free speech in spotlight https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/05/tough-new-german-law-puts-tech-firms-and-free-speech-in-spotlight Key Data/ Statistical Info US social media companies have scaled up operations in  Germany , where a controversial new law has turned the country into a testbed for whether tech firms can be relied on to tell the difference between free speech and hate speech. Facebook and Twitter have fitted their German websites with additional features for flagging up controversial content, and spent months hiring and training moderators to cope with the Network Enforcement Act, which came into full effect on 1 January 2018. Under the  law , known in Germany as “NetzDG”, online platforms face fines of up to €50m (£44m) if they do not remove “obviously illegal” hate speech and other postings within 24 hours of receiving a notification. A seven-day period is granted for removal of “illegal” content. Figures

Secondary school pupils 'ill-equipped to cope' with stress of social media  https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/04/secondary-school-pupils-ill-equipped-to-cope-with-stress-of-social-media Key Data/ Statistical Info  Children moving from primary to secondary school are ill-equipped to deal with the onslaught of social media which takes on an increasingly important role in their lives, exposing them to significant emotional risk, a  report  says. While eight to 10-year-olds tend to use  social media  in a creative way, often playing games with one another, this changes when they enter secondary school with the use of platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat, where children begin to chase “likes” and positive comments on their posts. “While social media clearly provides some great benefits to children, it is also exposing them to significant risks emotionally, particularly as they approach year 7,” Longfield said, as she published her report Life in Like

Logan Paul apologises for film of man's body in Japan https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/02/outcry-as-youtube-star-posts-video-of-dead-body-in-japan Key Data/ Statistical Info  The 22-year-old American, who has 15 million subscribers on  YouTube , was labelled “disrespectful” and “disgusting” after he joked with his friends about discovering the body in Aokigahara forest, a notorious suicide spot at the base of Mount Fuji. YouTube said Paul’s video violated its policies, but did not respond to calls to suspend him from the site. The number of Japanese who kill themselves has fallen in recent years, although the country still has the sixth highest suicide rate in the world. The lack of services for people with  mental health  problems, as well as debt and serious illness – particularly among elderly people – have also been cited as common causes of suicide in Japan.

Dan Sabbagh: 'Editing news is intense, thrilling and ultimately exhausting' https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2017/dec/31/dan-sabbagh-editing-news-intense-thrilling-ultimately-exhausting Key Data/ Statistical Info  News always flows, sometimes it pours, flooding the Guardian newsdesk without cease via proliferating channels. Every news editor, on arrival in the morning, organises their desktop to highlight the best of the news wires, at least two TV stations,  BBC  and Sky News, Twitter and other social media.  Then they contend with the constant stream of email and chat messages from 50 reporters – the most committed in the business. Now the task is to beat the rolling news channels and publish, within moments, a single paragraph starting from the desk that is filled out, revised and updated by reporters throughout the day. Many of the most important stories come not from one big revelation but through patiently developing a theme – London property ow