Since this is my first time Blogging. I do enjoy the moment of blogging; as this web blog assignment will start motivate me to create my own blog to share with others. For the first time using blog, it not really hard to learn. As blog spot do provide us template and guide for us which enable us create our blog easily. I did learn something new in this web blog assignment, how to use the tools provide by blogspot.com. For example we can link one to other post by using the gadget tools
Friday, November 14, 2008
REFLECTION
Trusting Wikipedia
Image of Wikipedia
Do you trust or you don't ?
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
Wikipedia is not credible site to obtain information, but still there are few of other still relies on this free, multilingual encyclopedia. It is funded by a non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikiepedia’s had more than 10 million article over which have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the globe. The source is easy edited by anyone as long as they visit the site. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it is currently the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet. Critics of Wikipedia target its systemic bias and inconsistencies and its policy of favoring consensus over credentials in its editorial process. Wikipedia's reliability and accuracy are also an issue.
Other criticisms are centered on its susceptibility to vandalism and the addition of spurious or unverified information. Scholarly work suggests that vandalism is generally short-lived. In addition to being an encyclopedic reference, Wikipedia has received major media attention as an online source of breaking news as it is constantly updated
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
Hindu Right Action Force (Hindraft)
Banning movemment of Hindu Right Action Force (HINDRAFT)
Hindu Right Action Force (Hindraft) submitted its application for registration since October 2007, when the Home Affairs Minister Syed Hamir Albar decided to ban their movement on October 15. The reasons given by the government, the decision is a setback to freedom of expression and will only send the signal that dissent is not tolerated. Therefore, resulting Hindraf supporters organised several gathering to protest the Internal Security Act of the detention of their five leaders for two years in Kamunting. Thus, banning the movement will not be the best solution as the best way for the government is to engage the group and work towards a more open and a better solution.
The latest gathering was at 27 September and it gathered more than two thousand people as it also dedicated to the blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin. “The Right to Associate and expression is guaranteed under Article 10 of Federal Constitution, albeit with restrictions through amendments passed over the years” (Venkiteswaran, 2008). Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) believes that the issues highlighted by Hindraf were valid and actual socioeconomic and political problems that were facing by a momentous figure of people of Indians in Malaysia.
My Opinion!
This is one of the many reason why the Barisan Nasional’s(National Front) limited success in the March 8 elections as the government failed to react to the issues. The public will against the government if they do not pay some respect to their people.
Reference
Hindu Right Action Force (Hindraft) submitted its application for registration since October 2007, when the Home Affairs Minister Syed Hamir Albar decided to ban their movement on October 15. The reasons given by the government, the decision is a setback to freedom of expression and will only send the signal that dissent is not tolerated. Therefore, resulting Hindraf supporters organised several gathering to protest the Internal Security Act of the detention of their five leaders for two years in Kamunting. Thus, banning the movement will not be the best solution as the best way for the government is to engage the group and work towards a more open and a better solution.
The latest gathering was at 27 September and it gathered more than two thousand people as it also dedicated to the blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin. “The Right to Associate and expression is guaranteed under Article 10 of Federal Constitution, albeit with restrictions through amendments passed over the years” (Venkiteswaran, 2008). Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) believes that the issues highlighted by Hindraf were valid and actual socioeconomic and political problems that were facing by a momentous figure of people of Indians in Malaysia.
This video was reported by Aljazeera, it is the second demonstration by the Human Rights Action Force (Hindraft) for the demanding greater representation for the country’s ethnic Indian minority. They gather up to complain about the economic discrimination and political marginalization. During the protest, one of the Hindraft leader, R.S Tanethran said, “To the Prime Minister, don’t ever come to the public and said that you love everybody and care for the people, it’s a wrong. Don’t ever say he doesn’t know how to respect the Indian in Malaysia.” In the statement to Aljazeera, Malaysia Deputy Internal Security Minister said, “If they are unhappy with anything, they should use the ballot box. The elections are around the corner and they are free to vote as they wish. This is democracy.” (Youtube.com, 2008)
My Opinion!
This is one of the many reason why the Barisan Nasional’s(National Front) limited success in the March 8 elections as the government failed to react to the issues. The public will against the government if they do not pay some respect to their people.
Reference
Ethnic Indians protest in Malaysia Youtube - viewed 13 November 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk4MwT92rLE
Venkiteswaran, G 2008, ‘Another ban, Another Loss For Expression’, Centre For Independent Journalism, viewed on 9 November 2008.
http://www.cijmalaysia.org/content/view/385/8/
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Emoticons & Email Etiquette
Today, many people all around the world text or email more than a millions email per second. The truth is, they do not have any idea how to write, and therefore misunderstanding occurs between the sender and receiver. Because of this issue, it leads to the birth of creation of emoticons
Introduction:
It all started back in the State, when Professor Scott Fahlman from Carnegie Mellon University invented the original emoticon which is made up with typing a colon. Still, there are experts against the use of emoticon, whereby, Greenstone (2003) think it as silly and unprofessional.
(Original emoticon)
(Latest emoticon)
Email Etiquette:
My Opinion:
What I think is, emoticon had bring joy to the society as all the emoticon got different type of face, such as winky, happy, cute or adorable and etc...
Reference
According to (Kress & Van Leeuwen, 2006), a Picture or symbol can represent all the text of meaning. Email etiquette is divided into two, formality the way we address a person in the email, and the occasion (it should not be used to express feelings, especially in sending out an apology or greeting).
Good Email Etiquette:
- Not writing in CAPITALS
- Avoid using urgent and important
- Not forwarding virus hoaxes and chain letters
- Be concise to the point
- Keeping your language gender neutral
Bacn- “email you wan but not right now”. It differs from spam as recipient has somehow signed up to accept it
My Opinion:
What I think is, emoticon had bring joy to the society as all the emoticon got different type of face, such as winky, happy, cute or adorable and etc...
Reference
Greenstone, Bn.d, ‘Email Etiquette’, viewed on 13 November 2008,
www.mainelearns.org/ovc/story_files/email_etiquette.pdf‘Emoticon and email etiquette’, ABC.Net.Au, viewed on 13 November 2008,
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2007/2064342.htmSchirato, T & Yell, S 1996, Communication and cultural literacy: an introduction, Allen & Unwin, NSW, pp.90-117
Indonesian Weekly apologises over Last Supper Suharto Cover
A leading Indonesian magazine has apologised to Christians for depicting former President Suharto and his family of mimicking the Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper portrait in the magazine cover. Christian activists visited Tempo’s cover showed a sketch of Suharto, who died at 86 month, sitting at a table surrounded by his children in a parody of the last meal Jesus had with his disciples as depicted in Da Vinci’s painting.
Christian activists visited Tempo’s building, to protest on the cover of the Suharto. They were offended as the Tempo magazine compared it between Suharto to Jesus.
"For anything unseemly related to the publication of the cover, I, on behalf of the Tempo group, apologise," the magazine's chief editor, Toriq Hadad, said in a statement run on its Web site, www.tempointeraktif.com. (www.abc.net.au). Later, He said the image, used to illustrate a cover story titled "After He is Gone," was inspired by Da Vinci's painting and was not intended to refer to a biblical event.
(The Last Supper Suharto Cover)
(Leonardo Da Vinci's painting, The Last Supper)
WHY?
The intent to portray Suharto as Jesus Christ was, because Suharto had brought economic stability to Indonesia during his administration. But, this did not go well with the Christians. It led to a dozen representatives of several Christian groups as well as inter-religious organizations converged. Therefore, the Christians protest outside the Tempo building for an answer.
According to Haynes (Michael, 2007) what exactly is considered blasphemy can vary between religious groups and people.
The picture created issues due to cultural differences. This is due to the misunderstanding of links between the composition of Leonardo’s painting, and the concept or context of the event told in the holy bible.
It was not ethical at all to post such a picture as the cultural difference is not respected. Also, “The exploitation of religious themes or persons for the selling of products. Surperficiality and bad taste entertainment and the internationalization of ‘values of the secularized society’ are equally, negatively judged.”(Feijter, p. 159, 2008)
My Opinion!
Why Tempo choose the potrait of the Jesus Christ Last supper. In my personal opinion, I think it was so some of free advertisement, to know that what had the Suharto done, and who is Suharto actually.
References
Feijter, 1.2008, ‘The Art of Dialogue: Religion, Communication and Global Media Culture.’
Viewed 13 November 2008.
Michael.M 2007, ‘Freedom of Religion Confronts Journalism’, Viewed 13 November 2008
Michael.M 2007, ‘Freedom of Religion Confronts Journalism’, Viewed 13 November 2008
<http://media.www.bcheights.com/media/storage/paper144/news/2007/03/26/News/Freedom.Of.Religion.Confronts.Journalism-2791570-page2.shtml‘Indonesian weekly apologises over Last Supper Suharto cover’ 2008, ABC.net, viewed on 11 November 2008,
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/06/2156269.html
WEB VS PRINT
Which do you prefer, Print design or Web design? Let go deeper into the discussion. In print, a reader reads from left to tight or right to left considering their cultural background. That is, ‘reading is linear …’ (Kress & van Leeuwen 2006, p.178). While in web, reader does not read linearly but in an F-pattern. A reader usually reads ‘in a horizontal movement … Next, users move down the page a bit and then read across in a second horizontal movement … Finally, users scan the content's left side in a vertical movement.’ (Nielsen 2006).
(Picture (a) Homepage of www.guinnessworldrecords.com)
(Picture (b) Guinness World Record Handbook)
Both pictures shown above are the Guinness World Record. Picture (a) is the layout of the Guinness World Record website. There are different kinds of languages provided and the word is easy to understand and attractive colourful picture.The language used in web page is simpler and straight forward as it is aim for readers to scan through and is able to get the message (Walsh, 2006). In web design, links to other articles are also included, something which cannot be done in print, in additional, video and sound were provided in web design to make it seem to be much more attractive. The electronic form publications are designed with technological differences such as hyperlinks, menu buttons, frames and windows to assist and attract the readers (Walsh, 2006).
Picture (b) the first attack from the Guinness World Record handbook is the picture in the middle which is clear and there word above and below the picture is in capital form as to attract the attention of the readers. Salience can create a hierarchy of importance among the elements, selecting some as more important and more worthy of attention than others. (Kress & Van Leeuwen, 2006). The picture has to be big and colourful. Walsh said that responses in an audience are usually achieved by the choices of color, size, angle and so on. She called this ‘visual grammar.’ (Walsh 2006).
References
Kress, G & van Leeuwen, T 2006, Reading Images: Grammar of Visual Design, Routledge, London.
Nielsen, J 2006, F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content, Useit.com, viewed 13 November 2008, < http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html>.
Walsh, M 2006, ‘“textual shift”: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts’, Australian journal of language and literacy, vol.29, no.1, pp.24-37.
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