Emma'sIDMblog

This week I watched three very interesting and informative videos about media representation.my first thoughts about media representation before  watching  the three videos was how  the media tends to  rep resent topics in ways that are unrealistic and tend to give the public a better impression tha n  it actually is.  The first video I watched was called” why representation matters” this video  informed  me about the factors of the  importance  of different cultu res being represented in the media and by doing thi s  to the best ability it is ideally portrayed by people who are in the same boat as what they are  essentially  trying to show the  media.   T hey also talked about the different body types that are shared across different media sources. In my opinion I think that over the past couple of years  body positivity has been talked about so much and there is  defiantly  a greater acceptance o...

For this week I learned about media compression which I have never really thought about before or have never came across this topic before. I have learned that media compression is uploading a video in the correct format and size depending on the website and size of video. The aim is to essentially make the file smaller whilst containing the quality of the video the main four methods of using compression are frame, colour, picture, sound. there are two types of compression that occur theses are lossy which is when some information that isn't relevant is lost. And then there's lossless which is the opposite its where every information in the sile must maintain in the file and cannot be removed. This technique is also applies to audio compression with lossy and lossless as in the video "what you lose when you compress music to mp "in this video it demonstrates the lossy method in the case where as some of the audio has been cut but it is unnoticeable to the public as we...

 After watching four interesting videos on the broad scale of media ethics I was drawn to the parts of the first video that titled "Cambridge analytics scandal explained" in this video they were talking about how the company was basically founded from using hundreds of thousands of peoples data that they took from Facebook. This scandal is very intriguing as I think that this one of the companies that have gotten caught from doing this but there is so many more companies out there trying to get data and also trying to just about stay on the legal side and try and cut as many corners as they can to benefit their company and try get as many consumers to stay with their company one example of this was given in the video "how dark patterns trick you online" this example was the fact when you are subscribed to some websites and companies they will make it as difficult as possible in order for the consumers to cancel their subscription. They do by thinking that consumers ...