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Final Meet Up

Finally, we as a group manage to met today. I arrived about 40 minutes due to work and train delays. It was the first time for three of us able to meet as a group since the first time we assigned in a group. Though without proper meeting before other than inside the class and other circumstances, yes we are happy to see that we managed to come up this far.

We pulled out all of our part together and made few changes in the website. I even add some of the videos showing the different between BBC coverage about Bersih 3.0 with the one that broadcast by Astro in television back in Malaysia. I am more than happy when the boys agree and say that that videos is relevant enough with our case study. We also decided on what can we improved and what other relevant videos we can put up on our website.

We can say that this is the most successful meeting we had as we were able to get everything done. Before leaving, we are all set to meet on the 11th of June. Thanks boys for the hard work.

Cheers!

 

I’m sorry guys

My lack of attendance for the meeting has left the boys stranded. With the due date coming nearer, we definitely to sit down together but due to my personal problems, I haven’t manage to meet them up personally. We only been communicate mainly through email and exchanging text messages among other. It was something better than nothing, right?

So in the workshop, Daniel and Dylan worked out on something with Rachel’s help. With Rachel’s help, they asked her to set up a blog so that we can put up some written paragraph that we had. Dylan also did sent me an emails and it looks like this :

“Hi Ariff,

Daniel and I have discussed a lot of the ideas that we have had floating around in some depth and have defined our key focus in a way which provides a better way to frame these. In doing so, we feel that are using all of our existing ideas and presenting them in a more coherent and connected manner.

We have retitled ‘Old Media vs. New Media’ to ‘Broadcast vs. Post-Broadcast Era’, which changes how we define certain characteristics of how we define each culture. For example, Malaysia, while technically a post-broadcast era society, has many characteristics which define it more closely to a broadcast era society.

To show how we are going to present this, the following pages are planned:

–          Home Page

oIntro into Broadcast/Post-Broadcast, Rachel supplied some rough ways to phrase this:

• “The death of ‘broadcasting’ has been largely over exaggerated, as broadcast programming still exists, just within a media ecosystem which contains a wider level of media formats”
• The debate surrounding technological change and its effects
• ‘We use these terms loosely as a way of framing and examining the differences for audiences if the broadcasting experience in a digital age”

–          Broadcast Era

o   Definition of the characteristics of a Broadcast era and its audiences

o   The role of the audience, the content creators/producers/marketers and the Government

o   Discussing and analysing this through audience and media theories (Many of which Daniel has researched, the agenda setting function as an example)

o   No specific references to Malaysian or Australia culture

–          Post-Broadcast Era

o   Definition of the characteristics of a Post-Broadcast era and its audiences

o   The role of the audience, the content creators/producers/marketers and the Government

o   Discussing and analysing this through the new introductions in media forms presented, and how it changes media, audience and content relationships

o   Introduction to individualised media, target audiences, the ‘prosumer’

o   No specific references to Malaysian or Australia culture

–          Case Study

o   Comparing and contrasting Malaysian and Australian cultures, and the characteristics of each ‘era’ that they have and which ones are more prominent.

o   Specific reference to the purpose of this media, reference will be made to the ABC charter (which states that content must be supplied which fosters Australian culture) and link this back to the idea of Malaysian censorship. Is this an attempt to achieve the same thing, or create a level of control over the audience?

o   How does each form effect the audience’s level of knowledge or idea of identity?

o   Key differences in these two audiences and the media supplied

o   Specific example to news broadcast programs (ie. Government controlled versus widely produced in many different formats)

Daniel and I are completing some more research on these areas and have planned to write a paragraph or two each on these first two areas in some depth.

What we would like you to do is write a paragraph for each section or at the very least expand on some ideas in the notes that you sent last night, as some of them are more relevant than others. For example, Malaysia is a post-broadcast era society, but one which does not use it for its full potential due to Government involvement. Remember, we need literature to support our ideas to some degree, so try to do a little bit of research in broadcast/post-broadcast cultures.

Daniel will send a scanned version of the direction that Rachel has supplied us with hopefully by tonight.

The audience bios have also been scrapped from further discussion until a more fully realised idea of how this could be implemented has been found. Otherwise, this will be scrapped.

The website will hopefully be up and running soon, once this occurs, I’ll format it and it’s as easy as getting content up there.”

I sent some stuff related to Malaysia’s broadcast cultures to Dylan a night before. After reading this email, I knows that I need to work on something and make sure I get my part done.