Christelle da Gama

This week we are coming down to the final steps in our research project. Because the week before was such a busy week, we ended up leaving everything last minute. This meant we had to put in a lot of work, time, and effort to get this project finished properly.  Our task this week was to get the video completed and then uploaded on youtube so that we can present it to the class in the following week. We only had our research and video down so we still needed to: Find a location to record our video Edit the video Upload the finishing product onto youtube And we had just one week. It was very possible to do so however, the problem was that none of us knew how to edit or upload a video onto youtube. This week consisted of mostly just trying to figure things out (which was very stressful). Location The first step was asking one of our tutors to borrow a camera from our school, once we had our camera it was time to begin our recording process. We started by gathering ideas and looking a...

This week we are introducing project blogs. My class and I have been asked to create a group project following a social issue of our choice, and to document our journey through this process. For this project, I am working with Aiden Kelly, Rhys Mc Carthy, and Roibeard Mac Cumascaigh from my group 3 Introduction to Digital Media class.  We have been asked to cover the topic of misinformation and disinformation in the media. I personally think that this is a very interesting topic seeing as it's one of those subjects that is commonly discussed yet rarely understood.  This subject goes into dept on the misleading, confusing and false information in the media that we had to face for decades now, even before the internet was introduced to the world. It talks about the differences between misinformation vs disinformation, the different ways and methods used by the media and government to convince the minds of its passive audience and it also discusses the dangers this can lead to. T...

What is representation?    From my understanding representation is based on the way we view, perceive, and describe someone or something. For example, if I was asked to draw a picture of my sister and I drew her based on my perspective and thoughts of her that would be my representation of that person. The way we think of diverse types of people (ethnicities, culture, age, gender, nations, etc.) from what we see would also be our representation of that group of people.    How accurate is representation vs reality?    Following the Stuard Hall’s theory on representation, he that representation does not happen after the event in fact it becomes distorted and changes. He also stated that it's the media who gives meaning to those events.    I couldn't agree more with this theory as I have witnessed how media stereotypes have left an effect on people. For instance, black women and Asian men are known as the least respected in society and I feel like a ...