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Questions 1-4 should be answered minimum of 300 words max 600
1.
- Watch Fan Art: An Explosion of Creativity (2012):
- Read this article: http://www.academia.edu/9244613/Journalism_Practice_2014_Contest_over_content_Longitudinal_Study_of_the_CNN_iReport_Effect_on_the_Journalistic_Field (Links to an external site.)
Fan Art: An Explosion of Creativity | Off Book | PBS Digital Studios (Links to an external site.) Answer the following questions. Min of 300 words
- How are fan art and fan fiction meaning-making?
- What compels artists and writers to generate creative products using their talents that respond to corporate media creations?
- What is the nature of the conversations taking place between the media and its users here?
Are fan art and fan fiction just an extension of the original media that inspire them, or new and original media in and of themselves?
2.
Then watch this clip from the Nov. 28, 2011 episode of The Colbert Report, about CNN’s layoff of editors and photojournalists in favor of the crowdsourcing iReport feature: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/qggo98/the-colbert-report-stephen-colbert-s-mereporters (Links to an external site.)
Discuss the points that the academic article and Colbert were trying to make regarding the social newsgathering concept, while addressing the following questions:
- What are the risks of relying too heavily on the public to produce content?
- Where do you see this happening in the media, and what is your opinion of it?
- Is social media-produced content reliable?
- Is this a positive or negative trend for the media overall?
3.
Watch the TED Global 2009 Talk, “Cynthia Schneider: The Surprising Spread of Idol TV”: http://www.ted.com/talks/cynthia_schneider_the_surprising_spread_of_idol_tv?language=en (Links to an external site.). Answer the following questions:
- In what ways do the media influence culture in this case study? In what ways does culture influence the media?
- Is the dominant culture created, maintained, and reproduced in this case study?
- Does the export of American media, like the American Idol format, reinforce indigenous dominant culture, or does it actually spread the dominant culture of the West through these competition shows?
How does American dominant culture influence this presentation itself?
4. Using this weeks readings, answer the following prompts in your initial posting. Readings: Required
- Vega, T. (2012, February 26). Opt-out provision would hold some, but not all, when tracking. New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/technology/opt-o...
- Karakayali, N., & Kilic, A. (2013). More network conscious than ever? Challenges, strategies, and analytic labor of users in the Facebook environment. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 18(2), 175–193, https://doi.org/10.1111/jcc4.12005
- Who do you think is in control in the media/audience relationship: the producers or the consumers?
What influence do they have on each other?
Support your argument with specific case studies and articles we have read in this course, or with sources found through your own media use.
Also, apply a media effects theory (or two) to support your position.
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Mass Communication and Society Questions
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Question 1
How are fan art and fan fiction meaning-making?
The field of fun art and fan fiction is growing and promoting creativity. They not only
mean to entertain but also hey are making meaning by communicating crucial issues in the
society. Fan arts and fictions are created for a purpose. They can be used to pass information but
in an entertained form. For instance, one might get bored when they intend to read certain
information. However, when such information is presented in a form of fun art, it can creates
interest to the reader. For instance, one artist in the video, “Fan Art: An Explosion of creativity”
said that fun art tells what is going on in your head (Brown, 2012). This means that whatever the
artists create, it comes from their heads or thoughts so that they can communicate a certain
message.
What compels artist to generate creative products?
There are various forces that are convincing artists to generate creative products as seen
from testimonies provided in the video. Advancement in technology is one of the contributing
factors.There are programs or softwares that promoteart enabling artists to express their ideas in
a more creative way. For instance, one artist admits that he collaborated with his friend who had
a website to generate his work. Another reason is the availability of audience or community that
likes fun arts. People are getting more interested with creative products generated by artists and
are willing to share them through online platformsthus motivating the artists. Furthermore,
mainstream media such as the CNN has changed on how they view user contents (Hellmueller &
Li, 2014). For instance, they support the fan artists as a way of increasing their content and
attracting more audience.
Nature of conversation taking place
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Artists are telling their stories concerning this field and what motivates them to explore
fun art.The media is providing a platform where the artists can share their experience in the field
of fun art and fiction. Through this conversation, media users including those who are not aware
of fun arts get to know what fun art really means and why artists are involved in this field. Since
the artists are telling their stories themselves, the conversation becomes more convincing
compared to the ones reported by the journalists. The artists were inspired by media and they are
trying to improve the traditional way on how things can be presented by...
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