ALVARADO

Django unchained is about a slave, who befriends a white hitman, and they help eachother throughout the film, django wants to be freed and the white man wants to kill certain people, there is alot of violence in the fuim, however this film subverts the stereotypes of all white people hating black people back in those times.
in terms of alvardos theory this films fits in with it, django is portaged as dangerous because he is a killer in the movie, he is also pitied when he is shown as a slave and when he misses his family.

12 years a slave is about a free black man, who is fairly wealthy, who gets kidnapped and turned into a slave, at first he doesn't realise how this could happen, but then he realises the harsh truth, he however is brave and doesn't accept the fact that he will be a slave forever so he talks back to authority and causes fights to survive.

platforms that fit the steriotype:

TELEVISION

this is a video on US news, which shows a black man being very humorous,

FILM:

will smith hitch trailer, showing black american being houmourus

what is post colonialism?

In the 19th and early 20th century, Britain and other European held colonial empires in, Africa, Asia and South America.

Colonist produced media which made colonialism seem natural, they bought a civilising influence to colonised countries

Post colonialism emphasises the importance of the cultural, economic, political, and military dominance of its past

The absence of non white images in the media visually suggests the dominance of the white culture.

orientalism 

EDWARD SAID '95

it is a perspective that the east and Orient are representations of both fear and fascination.

DIASPORA

Diaspora Identity is the result of forced or voluntary migration

People experience and sense of belonging to a culture which is 'other' to the dominant culture of tghe country of residence.

ALVERADO '87

black communtiy four types

The humorous 

exotic or sexually promiscuous

the pittied

the dangerous

Black Mirror

What is the message of Black Mirror: The National Anthem

The series brings to light the fact that when it comes to a national crisis that not only the government would be involved due to technology now a days the audiences or citizens of the public are more in control of we want to watch and see, especially if its a desensitised topic such as pornography.
In the episode we saw N&DM being used such as YouTube and twitter, YouTube was used to upload the video of the princes' message, this allowed the terrorist to upload the video anonymously and without it being  gate-kept. one of the prime-ministers colleagues mentioned that it was trending on twitter which made it impossible to censor from the public as the internet is decentralised.

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Sky to open movie rental service to non-subscribers

sky is to open its movie rental service to non-subscribers for the first time, looking to compete more directly with video-on-demand services including Netflix, Amazon's LoveFilm and Tesco's Blinkbox.

The pay-TV broadcaster intends to make an initial 1,200 titles, including Man of Steel and The Hangover 3, available via an app on Youview and Roku set-top boxes.

Sky Store, which charges £3.49 for a new release and up to £1.99 for a classic, has proved to be popular with Sky customers.

I believe this is a great idea from sky as it is a merge of the internet style streaming services and their normal satellite services also this is a good comeback to TV and will keep it contemporary for years to come, the prices aren't bad for the movies and the titles are newer than most streaming sites and for this service you do not need to be tied to a subscription just pay per view which can be attractive to people who don't use it ALOT or don't want a huge bill at the end of every month. this idea alone wont really be good enough to entice people to buy sky subscriptions if they don't have one already however the fact that they made it available to non subscribers combats this and allows them to compete with netflix etc. i think sky will continue to merge all technologies as they come out so as a sky customer you will not be left out.

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Page 3 is demeaning and regressive - Eleanor Mills of the Sunday Times.

In a radio interview yesterday, she revealed that she has raised the matter within Rupert Murdoch's News UK, the publisher of both titles:

"I'm on the record as being opposed to Page 3. I think it's demeaning to women and I'm really not a fan and I've said this in meetings at News International - sorry News UK - and that's the view I hold…

I think Page 3 feels quite regressive. I think it feels very kind of 70s. I have two daughters of my own who, when they open up the Sun and they see it, they're like, 'mum, why is this woman not wearing a top?'"

Im a bit on both sides of this argument as on one hand Page 3 can seem very lighthearted and if you keep it out of sight its out of mind, however is pornography really needed on one of britain most biggest newspapers? is it even necessary when the internet is full of these kinds of things anyway. from personal experiences from a young age it makes young boys think that women are just their to be sex objects and this is not acceptable, but at the end of the day if it isn't illegal then can it really be such a harm?

Mandy loyal says "page 3 is very demeaning to woman. In todays wold where nudity is available to anybody it is pointless, it was probably fun back in the day but whats the point now?"

"It desensitises men its mainstream and its become too common, it definitely changes mens views towards women", says Nicky Loyal.

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LG 'to exit traditional PC market' amid declining sales and profit squeeze

Korea's LG Electronics is said to be preparing to exit the traditional PC market, as worsening margins and sales make it uneconomic, presaging a shift to tablets, smartphones and "hybrid" PCs.
There will still be a need for traditional PCs for years yet, such as applications for PC gamers and enterprises. But it doesn't make sense to put more resources into the money-losing business."
LG includes PCs in its "Home Entertainment" division, which also includes TVs. It has made no mention of its PC business except to say that there has been "slow demand" and that it has focused instead on "profitability operations".

• HP, Lenovo, Dell, Acer and Asus – ship between 4m and 13m PCs per quarter, and collectively have more than 60% of the Windows PC market, leaving slim margins for other companies.
• LG's management has instituted a policy in which all of its divisions have to become profitable by 2016, or face closure.
• LG has seen its PC shipments almost halve over the past three years, from 1.65m in 2010, to 1.48m in 2011, to 0.94m in 2012.

Lg seem to be exiting the traditional PC market and entering one full of hybrids and tablets, this raises much concern to to what will happen to pc's in the next 10 years, will they become obsolete? as we know tablets and other mobile devices are become more then capable of meeting our daily needs for escapism and surveillance and other types of uses and gratifications. I feel like if its what they need to do to keep their company running then fair enough, however, i still feel that pc's are needed for that full control of powerful applications unlike tablets with limited features battery life etc.
desktops and laptops now seem to be becoming something for more niche applications, ie, for use of editing if your a film maker, or for the use of recording sound if your a producer Other things that dont need the processing power a PC can give will most likely switch to tablets or hybrids.

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Snapchat reacts to hacking group releasing millions of phone numbers

Snapchats users security has been compromised due to a security flaw allowing anonymous group called SnapchatDB to post millions of snapchat users number on the web using the Find Friends option, They first acknowledged this flaw several months ago so why was it not fixed? They claimed they had implemented safeguards to “make it more difficult” for people to match up user names and phone numbers, which they conceded “theoretically possible”.

Soon later SnabchatDB uploaded its database of 4.6million users.

Snapchat regularly refers to this as abusing our service however are they just being lazy, their problem was pointed out months ago and the option to opt out of find friends was only implemented now, not even a full fix of the problem, so users who are new or unfamiliar with snapchat or technology in general will still be vunerable to their information being posted on the internet exposed to spam and abuse.

Overall I believe that due to this only being phone numbers it isn’t as big of a deal as if it were to be addresses and more personal information, so in this case snapchat is not being blamed as hard, I don’t see why SnapchatDB would even have any reason to post this data, is it to point out snapchats flaws? Humiliate them? Or just prove something to them selves…