February 2011
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I went to see the X Factor and liked it...
On Sunday night I ashamedly bought into the consumer culture and went to see X Factor Live at the NEC in Birmingham. Whilst I’m not afraid to admit that I actually enjoyed it - albeit apart from Wagner’s hip-shaking - I couldn’t help but observe it from a Leavisite perspective. (If you’re reading and wondering who on earth this Leavis guy is, in short he is a highly...
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Loose #MC539 Ep1: Emma Watson
Listen!
Following on from my Media Culture posts, this is a small experiment for MC539 - otherwise known as Web & Alternative Media Production. Using AudioBoo we were tasked with creating a short piece of audio which can be shared online easily, in response to a contemporary news story.
Instead of a vox or clip from someone involved in the story, we decided to create a one-off podcast...
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#MC513 Reading Response - Raymond Williams 'The...
This post is for @BCUMedia module MC513 and is a response to the reading ‘The Analysis of Culture’ by Raymond Williams.
Williams initially outlines three key definitions of culture:
the ‘ideal’: “culture is a state or process of human perfection”
the ‘documentary’: “culture is the body of intellectual and imaginative work”
the...
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"solitary purveyor of information..."
First off, let me explain, from today you’ll start to see a load of posts tagged with mc513 or media culture - as part of my undergraduate course at BCU, tagged posts relate to media culture theory seminars.
When this question was posed, any number of things popped into my head. With such an enormous range of media consumption everyday it appears as though this question is the hardest thing...