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The Department of Mass Media at Kishinchand Chellaram College successfully hosted its XII International Media Summit on February 13 and 14. The two-day summit brought together media professionals, academicians, and students to engage in in-depth discussions on how credibility, technology, ethics, and narrative power are reshaping journalism and strategic communication in an increasingly polarised media environment. Read More....

Ohhhh yes! Of course! 👁️

There are lots of eyes everywhere, such as:

Sadia had rolled her eyes. “No one cares what you say. Just get your face in the same frame as hers, they’ll run that shit on a loop for days.” (X times Johnny kissed Cristal)

and

She’d told Johnny as much, when he’d told her what had happened, that first night: Fine, have your fun, but keep your eye on the ball. (Sadia voyeurism)

and

Her eyes finds the place where Sadia's long nails are digging into Johnny's pale thighs, and stay glued there. (Threesome)

But also! This is the last "active" WIP I have, and it's actually a collab with my dear co-writer Massmedia, and it is a PIRATES AU!!

It took her months, even after making the transition from hostage to crew member, to finally dare act on the impulse. Months of feeling something grow soft inside her ribcage at the way the Captain – Johnny – treated his crew, and something else sharpen when he came back covered in blood with a gleam in his eyes. Months of looking at him from the corner of her eye and catching him looking away in a hurry; of their hands inching closer on the ship’s taffrail, of sword fighting lessons that brought them within inches of each other, sweaty and panting, before he darted away with a guilty look on his face. 

AHOY!! 🌊⛵

Ormai la stampa fa concorrenze ai clickbaiter della rete.

Un'escalation di untori della paura!

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La crisi dei giornali è fortissima, ma questo non giustifica né la sciatteria né la rincorsa al pubblico attraverso falsi allarmi e titoloni, che, sì, ci sono sempre stati, ma spesso, in passato, hanno anche avuto una funzione civile. Come il FATE PRESTO! ripreso da Andy Warhol ai tempi del terremoto dell'Irpinia.

Ieri il Tg2 ha esordito con "Coronavirus, niente allarmismi!" e ha proseguito con "Tutto il nostro telegiornale sarà dedicato a questo argomento", senza nessun commento scientifico o minimamente rassicurante (da quello che ricordi io).

Ora io non dico che tutta questa sia una novità, anzi. Quello che affermo è che in tempi di globalizzazione e telematica spinta, la propagazione virale (appunto) dell'informazione gode di un effetto moltiplicatore che richiederebbe maggiore prudenza e consapevolezza sia da parte dell'emittente che (soprattutto) da parte del destinatario delle notizie.

Su questo provo a fare anche dei corsi di cittadinanza digitale con i ragazzi delle scuole superiori.

In questa pagina web c'è una presentazione che uso come punto di partenza per parlare con loro di bufale, fake news ed altre fandonie mediatiche.

The Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord

Talking back has undesirable consequences.

The Spectacle is reducing everyones concrete life to a universal speculation.

“You (the corporations) don’t ask me if I want a billboard in every part of where I live. You don’t ask me if I want to hear music everywhere I go and in every restaurant I eat in. So why do I have to ask you to take a little bit of it and make something out of it, make fun or critique you” - Mark Hosler from Negativland

This quote alone shows that our world is controlled by a smaller world of which dictates every image we see. It is up to us to standby and absorb this careful dispersion of information or to take it and respond to it, creating our own noise.

It is the artists who have the ability to sharpen out perception. As artists we see our environments for what they really are. Now more than ever, with the COVID-19 global Pandemic, we are all being made to isolate to one single environment, to entertain ourselves, by ourselves for ourselves but really for the protection of others.

We as artists have the ability to use the spectacles own weapons against it by jamming the system. Right now our means of production are limited to what we have in our environments but our capabilities are limitless through the power of technology, which not only stands a huge advance in the spread of art and ideas but currently during COVID-19, technology stands as the only means of spreading information both non essential social and consumer communication and essential government and ministerial broadcasts.

I found Debords analysis of the spectacle especially significant during these unprecedented times. As I try to adapt to a remote version of Art College and Printmaking, I am learning more about the power of art, critique and the spread of ideas through imagery.

This articles relate to Chapter 5 Socialization. This article talks about a show called “Toddlers & Tiaras” that airs on TLC. This show is about toddler beauty pageants who participants are normally middle to upper class citizens. In the article it talked about the large amounts of Americans that watch this show and how these pageants affect society. This show is suporting the concept of mass media to use toddler pageants to exploit the participanting upper class toddlers’ talent. Also shows like this make it seems like it okay for the upper class children to act in a disrespectful way towards their parents in order to get their way. Meanwhile the lower class tend to be a little more uncomfortable because they train there children to respect the elders and by watching this show could possibly reverse the teachings their children are taught.