It’s typical for a new technology to be adapted within a culture and used to support existing patterns of behavior

Critical Reflection

What kind of culture influences through technology can I see from today’s world? And Is there a possibility to reshape the (new) culture today via new technology, How?


Changing learning medium with new medium. Usually students bring their books to class but nowadays they bring electronic stuff such as notebooks, iphone, and other medium that can be replace books so they can go to class less weight. Others than that, in communication, people start using webcam to communincate with their family or friends at overseas without seeing them face to face. Futhermore, like mails, people has replace it with e-mail because mails takes time for the receiver to get the mails. Also, nowadays people has their own computer and mostly with internet at home but still there is a mail's user out there went it is a celebration days.

Communicating with others whether they are close or far, it has become much easier. Though we can't meet them in person, at least we are able to maintain our relationship with others.

Example of new learning medium and communication medium

Example of E-mail

Personal Reflection

With this week's lecture, I think its fun and all that technology really make our lives easier, but I don’t mind with having to do things manually for a while.

How to relate the information given in the documentary to the theory of Media Imperialism that has been talked about in lecture?

Critical Reflection:

Someone manipulating the media to affect people to do something that he or she wanted them to do also known as Media Imperialism. The power is so terrified and it can only cause chaos if they misused it. Media imperialism also apply in the government conspiracy. Many kind of dirty tricks being used by the politician to pull an action. For example in the documentary video “The Power of Nightmares (Part 3 - Shadow in the Cave)" George Bush blindly takes action on the people who that he assume to be terrorist to be caught. It is all about one thought then he deliver the media imperialism to make his plan become true but it is not actually. The news also has been manipulated by the government for example the tragedies of September 11 the media told the world that terrorist did the plane crash but after that there is many doubt about the explosion some says it was government secret plan. This is how the media imperialism acts pretty much as mind control and it has the power to control the world.




Personal Reflection:

It’s really an interesting topic on this week lecture because I learned the ‘real’ politics from it after the lecturer show the video.

Tetrad of Media

Critical Reflection



By using McLuhan "Tetrad of Media" theory, as I choose television as a medium, it shows visual or graphic on the screen and delivers sound through their speakers. Through obsolesces, television reduces the importance of printing. What is retrieved is be in a relationship with view of man. The reverse of television, it becomes or returns to is the global theater, where people are actors on a stage and need only one witness the event status of an airplane crash or weather disaster.

Personal Reflection

The information deliver and explanation of it by the lecturer is quite good for student to understand....

Obscenity, pornography and indecency: What are the differences between these terms?

Critical Refelction

Obscenity, pornography and indecency have different meaning. Firstly, obscenity is a offense behavior such as a word, act, or expression.



example of obscenity expression

Secondly, pornography is a representation of sexual activity in a media form such as videos , pictures and magazines whose primary purpose is to stimulate sexually. Now, it became popular in the internet.

Lastly, indecency is a something or someone look unsuitable, unseemly or no manners. For example, a women who dress up sexy which exposed almost of their body walking by the roadsides.