After making and posting blogs and combine the information together, what I think of making this blog is itsnt easy at all. Since Im quite new with blog thingy so I feel more changelings making this blog. As a blogger, we can’t simply just write about anything without putting some ethics on it because even though it is only making a blog but we have to realize what ever story/information that you post through blog it will be posting in website, meaning everyone in the world can see your blog easily. Therefore, a blogger have to be responsible in certain ethical obligation to the readers. The important thing is we can’t copy other’s work without mentioning the information of the authors or link due to avoiding a serious offence. The better way for blogger to copy other’s work is using quotation or photos in order to convince readers.
Monday, 13 June 2011
Angry Birds: 200m downloads are the tips of the mobile gaming iceberg
Due to arise of technology nowadays, many of company’s cell-phones are competiting to expel a new application inside the phone. Apple and Smartphone are the famous company phone nowadays. They have to come out with the new idea to increase the demand in order to making money. There are a lot of applications that can make demand higher one of them is games. Some of people can’t live without playing games aimed to release their stress. There is one game which riding up people demand such as Angry Bird. The angry birds phenomenon shows no sign of slowing up (Guardian.co.uk 2011).According to Developer Rovio Mobile (2011) state that the franchise has now generated more than 200m downloads across all platforms. With the latest result that Angry Birds Rio standing up 35m since the launch in March. According to Kevin George (2010) state that to moving from awareness and advocacy changes the mentality of which media channel used. Last but not least when you focus on from the beginning on creating a conversation about the brand between customers not just brand to customer, your approach is more effective (Kevin George 2010).
Reference List
Boozalen 2010, “Sharpening the conversation”, online, viewed on 12 June 2011,
Guardian.co.uk 2011, “ Angry Birds: 200m downloads are the tips of the mobile gaming iceberg”, online, viewed 12 June 2011 < http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2011/may/19/iphone-game-stats>
Social media, cell phone video fuel Arab protests
Youth in the Middle East lately is protesting a video fuel Arab to social media, cellphone, and satellite TV. The video clip of protesting from youth, represented an insecure footage of a peaceful from people especially young man
And image terrible slaughter which has been uploaded on facebook, youtube, twitter and so on. In Bahrain and Libya, graphic image and rare video of insensitive clearout by the protection forces on crowds of protesters achieved international disapproval for their government and further fuelled accepted anger in the streets (Daily News 2011). Moreover, the coverage to which social media contributed to the overthrowing of the leaders of Egypt and Tunisia and also protests of differing size and power in Algeri, Bahrain, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Yemen is just a matter of debate or argument. Yet, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Libya’s Moamer Kadhafi has taken the threats facade by the Internet seriously enough, apparently, when they took the unusual step of endeavoring to cut their own people off the (Web Daily News 2011). According to Annabelle Sreberny (2010), saying that there is an important link between face-to-face politics and more technological-mediated communication. There are different strusture of repressive states, different histories of political action and differentiated approach to new forms of communication. Small media do offer immediacy and comprehensively like few channels before yet some new forms such as big media it tends to play significant roles in public opinion formation, different part of the world to each other (Annabelle 2010).
Reference List
Daily News 2011, “Social media, cell phone video fuel Arab protest”, online, viewed on 10 June 2011,
< http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=social-media-cell-phone-video-fuel-arab-protests-2011-02-22>
Small Media Initiative 2010, “Understanding Small media”, online, viewed on 10 June 2011,
Egyptian newspaper under fire over altered photo
Recently, Egypt shocked with news that one of the famous daily Newspaper in Egypt Al-Ahram in which six edition. The issues is regarding Al-Ahram was publishing a photograph to suggest President Hosni Mubarak was leading Middle East for peace talks. The original image is represented 6 leaders which are President Barack Obama, Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian on a red carpet walking together and in the original picture was shown that Mr Obama is walking ahead and the rest are behind. In this case Al-Ahram was manipulating that Hosni Mubarak is the one who leading the way Mr. Obama trailing behind. Apart of this, Al-Ahram also putted a title in that paper saying “The Way to Sharm El-Sheikh” (BBC 2010). Result of manipulating a photograph of Mr. Barak Obama, many controversial that arise from various parties. On 6th April, Youth Movement has incriminated the biggest newspaper in Egypt Al-Ahram that the paper was crossed the line and also they were being “unprofessional” for publishing the image of the leaders without mentioning the amendment (BBC 2010). Right after the accusation, Al-Ahram has replaced the image on its website with an image of the leaders gathering seated on the chairs in the Red Sea resort.
According to Walsh (2006, p.29) state that inferring image is unlike decoding words, it has different effects, image particularly has visual and imaginative level. Visual and imaginative level is vary from one person to another, as for some people the shoking people is no big deal, but obviously for all leaders especially Mr.Obama is such an unprofessional way to manipulate a picture without mentioning alteration.
Reference
Walsh, M 2006, 'Textual shift: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts', in Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol. 29, no. 1.
BBC 2010, “ Egyptian newspaper under fire over altered photo” online, viewed 10 June 2011, <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11313738>
Berita Harian issues public apology over tsunami cartoon
Berita harian as a one of Malaysia’s top news daily newspaper has apologized to public the world, especially to Japanese on its website and also through tweeter and Facebook, about the publication of cartoon depicting the devastating tsunami and earthquake which just had happen in Japan and killed thousands people The cartoon was represented the Tsunami and earthquake in Japan which shown the famous Japanese icon cartoon “Ultraman” running away from an oncoming Tsunami (The Star 2011). Because the publication, there out coming protests from outsiders which is politicians and the public criticizing regarding inappropriate image which Berita Minggu published. The reason why politicians and the public criticizing give some poor judgments are that they describe from the “Cartoon Tsunami” are not preferred and offensive. Apart of this, Youth chief of Umno Khairy Jamaluddin was giving some comment through tweeter, he stated that Berita Harian must apologies for publishing the cartoon and also Elizabeth Wong the Executive councilor of Bukit Lanjan assemblymand sum Selangor was tweeted, saying that “the matter was not funny” (The Star 2011). According to Kress and Van Leeuwen (1998), image is a part of multimodal text because it is making representation. It means that image can also convey a message without text. Moreover, the arrangement and visual representations contribute to meaning. Relating to image of cartoon Tsunami which Berita Harian published, the reader must have their own perspective to construe the image of the cartoon itself, as Kress and van Leeuwen agree that readers are mapping reading path before actual reading. However, this issue can be related to one of cultural meaning aspects from intertextuality which will lead people to understand of cultural array of meaning making. Shchirato & Yell (1996) state that discourse has an important function which is to express the meanings and values of the institution. Connecting to the issue, those authors illustrate that some discourses like religious discourse are strongly regulated through their personal institutions. However, even though the image over Tsunami cartoon it’s just an image, yet it has extremely different meaning and perspective from different social context.
Reference
Kress, G. & van Leeuwen, T. 2006, Chapter 6: The meaning of composition Reading images, Reading images, Routledge, pp. 175- 214
Shchirato, T. & Yell, S. 1996, Chapter 5: Framing Contexts, Communication and cultural literacy: An Introduction, Allen and Unwin, St. Leonards NSW, pp. 90-117
The Star 2011, “ Berita Harian issues public apology over tsunami cartoon”, online, viewed 10 June 2011, <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/3/14/nation/8262608&sec=nation>
Saturday, 14 May 2011
a. Blog has current phenomenon and Benefit of Blogging Community
What is blog and why people use blog?
Blog is usually mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a type of hybrid diary site, even though there are as many unique type of blog as people are. People are maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably blogger at blogger. com (Marketing term 2011). Billion of people use this kind of service like Blogger to classify and speed up the publishing process. The activities of updating blog post is called blogging and the person who updates the blog is called blogger. Basically, people who are using blog mostly are teenager, they often talk about their self, daily life, every moments that they go through. Sometimes, people tend to publish their article or writing to the other's blogger or reader so that people can leave a comment or opinion about their post. But somehow, some people dont want people to know about their article so they tend to set their setting into private so that people wont read the blog.
Current Blogger and Blogging Trend
Reference
Hrastinki 2011, Stefan Hranstinki Blog, viewed on 10 May 2011 <http://hrastinski.posterous.com/blogs-and-blogging-current-trends-and-future>.
Marketing term, What is blog, viewed on 10 May 2011 <http://www.marketingterms.com/dictionary/blog/>.
Blog is usually mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a type of hybrid diary site, even though there are as many unique type of blog as people are. People are maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably blogger at blogger. com (Marketing term 2011). Billion of people use this kind of service like Blogger to classify and speed up the publishing process. The activities of updating blog post is called blogging and the person who updates the blog is called blogger. Basically, people who are using blog mostly are teenager, they often talk about their self, daily life, every moments that they go through. Sometimes, people tend to publish their article or writing to the other's blogger or reader so that people can leave a comment or opinion about their post. But somehow, some people dont want people to know about their article so they tend to set their setting into private so that people wont read the blog.
Current Blogger and Blogging Trend
"Adopting an interdisciplinary scope, this paper presents a review of research on blogs and blogging within the social sciences and the humanities. It maps out what kind of research has been completed, how it has been performed and what gaps that might need to be filled in this relatively new area of research. More specifically, the paper will analyze all articles on blogs and blogging published until 2009 and indexed by the ISI Web of Knowledge" (Stefan HRastinki, 2011)The number of people using blog is increasingly. When blog becomes way to ups thats when people start using it. It is really convenience because people can express anything by writing something on the blog. For people who hard to express their feeling they tend to write about anything they want, because easy for them to spread out what do they feel since they cant exposes to anyone. In Indonesia, almost 70% of the people blog is about personal and the rest is about politic, business, fashion and many more.
Reference
Hrastinki 2011, Stefan Hranstinki Blog, viewed on 10 May 2011 <http://hrastinski.posterous.com/blogs-and-blogging-current-trends-and-future>.
Marketing term, What is blog, viewed on 10 May 2011 <http://www.marketingterms.com/dictionary/blog/>.
b. Classification of Blogs and Opinion About The Most Appropriate Classification Approach
Blog are a great way to monitor and even participate in the chatter about your new site
"Mike Davidson"
There are many and different types of blog among society which are personal blog, fashion blog, business blog, politic blog.
Personal Blogging
Radityadikablog, retrieved from blogspot on 10 May 2011
Personal blog is more like writing about your self, your life, and maybe some random topic if they dont run out of idea to write about. This blog is more emotional, it can be funny, sad or happy stories. It depends on the writer what they want to write about. Basically people who really like writing they tend to create their blog and become drama queen or king in the blog.
Business Blogging
kaskus.com retrieved from kaskus website on 10 May 2011
This blog is more formal and professionals ranging from real-tors to lawyers and stock brokers in order to share their expertise and companies have exposed to the power of blogs to personally connect with their customers. Usually this blog is used for people who interested in doing business.
Fashion Blogging
Fashioningblog retrieved from blogspot on 10 May 2011
Fashion blog is usually for women who really like fashion. This can help the reader to get the ideas on dressing up or what fashion style which In nowadays. Sometimes the blogger gives some experiment with clothes and upload to their blog. Besides, in this blog they can sales some their clothes as well.
Politic Blog
Detik.com retrieved from detik.com website on 10 May 2011
I personal think that this blog is the most appropriate classification because this blog is involved members of parliament, political parties, government agencies, and activists using the blog to connect with their constituencies. The style of writing is more formal and seems like this blog is a serious blog. The topic that they have been discussing is all about heavy topic.
Reference
'type of blogs', Wordpress, viewed on 10 May 2011, <http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/>.
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