Wednesday, October 31, 2012

1st Week Entry : Task 2

Write an essay of 400 words on describing your thoughts on media use.

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Media, a term that generally known refer to various means or types of communication. This "media" also can be used as a collective noun for the press or news reporting agencies. But now just that, media is also know in so many types and other terms which can be said media have very wide meaning depends on the types and means. Not to have any much more complicated meaning for media, we try narrow it down the medium and broadcasting for media such as television, newspaper, radio, email, magazines, telephone, Internet and fax.

One of the example of media : newspaper

Media use for the technological world nowadays, very successfully influences the people. Before, people only using media to convey important message to others. But now the media have been used widely, even for fun. Why I said even for fun? Come we see a little bit at social media network. So many people using social media, but not all of them use it for social purpose. Got people among them using it just for fun such as just want to play game from the social media, want to fill up their leisure time, they too boring until nothing to do, stalking their crush and many more reason that just to satisfy their own will. 

Social media network

Not just that, media also have been used as a weapon to any organisation or country. It is like "you control the media, you control the mind" and that show how powerful media to the people. As example, when the election period come to your country, you may see the candidates try so hard to influence people mind about their propaganda or what they may change if they chosen to be win in the election. Or when something shameful happen to the government, they will control the media very strictly not to give chance the bad news known by others through media. 

Media have been a very important elements to world now as people know everything, get to know each others, connect even from a far, and so many things that we think impossible at the time before have been realize today. For the future, I think media will evolve to the next level that we barely think what it could be because media also improving along with the technology that been developed very fast now. So, I can say the media use is not just for getting the new, but also can control people mind and also can change the whole world thoughts. 


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1st Week Entry : Task 1

INDIVIDUAL PROJECT 1

Search for meaning of below listed terms. Make sure you note your references and date retrieved from the source.

  • Cross-Disciplinary
  • Inter-Disciplinary
  • Trans-Disciplinary
  • Qualitative Research
  • Ethnographic Studies/Research

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First of all, the meaning of Disciplinary is a term used to describe types of knowledge, expertise, skills, people, projects, communities, problems, challenges, studies, inquiry, approaches, and research areas that are strongly associated with academic areas of study (academic disciplines) or areas of professional practice (profession). For example, the phenomenon of gravitation is strongly associated with academic discipline of physics, and so gravitation is considered to be part of the disciplinary knowledge of physics.

Disciplinary refers to knowledge associated with one academic discipline or profession. Common variations include:

1. Cross-Disciplinary

- Cross disciplinary refers to knowledge that explains aspects of one discipline in terms of another. Common examples of cross disciplinary approaches are studies of the physics of music or the politics of literature.

2. Inter-Disciplinary

- Interdisciplinary refers to new knowledge extensions that exist between or beyond existing academic disciplines or professions. The new knowledge may be claimed by members of none, one, both, or an emerging new academic discipline or profession.

An interdisciplinary community or project is made up of people from multiple disciplines and professions who are engaged in creating and applying new knowledge as they work together as equal stakeholders in addressing a common challenge. The key question is what new knowledge (of an academic discipline nature), which is outside the existing disciplines, is required to address the challenge. Aspects of the challenge cannot be addressed easily with existing distributed knowledge, and new knowledge becomes a primary subgoal of addressing the common challenge. The nature of the challenge, either its scale or complexity, requires that many people have interactional expertise to improve their efficiency working across multiple disciplines as well as within the new interdisciplinary area. An interdisciplinarary person is a person with degrees from one or more academic disciplines with additional interactional expertise in one or more additional academic disciplines, and new knowledge that is claimed by more than one discipline. Over time, interdisciplinary work can lead to an increase or a decrease in the number of academic disciplines.

3. Trans-Disciplinary

- Transdisciplinary refers to knowledge that exists in every individual, thus eliminating the need for discipline boundaries.

A transdisciplinary community or project is made up of transdisciplinary professionals, which is an ideal that can only be approached and not actually achieved in practice. To exist in today's society, a transdisciplinary professional would possess certification or degrees in all disciplines as well as experience in all professions. In essence, a truly transdisciplinary person contains all the distributed knowledge of the people in the community or project as their individual common knowledge. Furthermore, they exist within a community of people that share that knowledge. A transdisciplinary community is one in which common knowledge of individuals and the distributed knowledge of the collective are identical.

4. Qualitative Research

- Qualitative research is a field of inquiry in its own right. It cross cuts disciplines, fields, and subject matters. A complex, interconnected family of term qualitative research.

5. Ethnographic Studies/Research

- The ethnographic method is used across a range of different disciplines, primarily by anthropologists but also frequently by sociologists. Cultural studies, economics, social work, education, ethnomusicology, folklore, religious studies geography, history, linguistics, communication studies, performance studies, advertising, psychology, usability and criminology are other fields which have made use of ethnography.

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REFERENCE









http://web.media.mit.edu/~kbrennan/mas790/01/Denzin,%20The%20discipline%20and%20practice%20of%20qualitative%20research.pdf



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