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WEEK TWELVE UPDATE- Ownership and Challenges to Free Flows of Information

This weeks theme is all about the Ownership and Challenges to Free Flows of Information.

Heres this weeks tutorial task

The Kompozer was fun to do since Keith made us do it last semester so I did remember what had to be done.
                                            The News article was a 

                                      fortunately me and my group submitted on time.
                                           The final quiz, quiz six, was okay.
Another thing for us to do is to upload our practise page that I referred to above, that was fun to do, so that's basically what this week is all about.

WEEK ELEVEN UPDATE-Censorship and Political Control of Information.

The task this week is to finish the quiz (5).
Get into your news team groups and write up a draft of your news article, based on your interviews.
Unfortunately me and my group won't be able to submit the blog this week because we having problems communicating with the media professors.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/internetdemocracy
Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University

                                                   Here is a Global Filtering Internet Map.

WEEK TEN UPDATE-Media Markets and Challenges to Informed Citizenship

This week we all have three things, which are:
-completing the blog workshop two evaluatios.
-meet with our news team and discuss our next and final news article.
-the blog

Well with my group and I we have planned to meet later this week to finalise everything with the article.

Here is an article on Media Freedom

Well I have started structuring my interview that will be in Durban, Isipingo Hills. I will interviews some proffessionels and what my neighbours think about media freedom. Personally Media Freedom has both disadvantages and its advantages, as the government may put false information to manipulate people and that South Africa is a democratic country it should have Media Freedom.

WEEK 9 UPDATE-Digital Literacy and Digital Citizenship in the Information Age

Well its back to business as we are coming from a mid-term break.

                                        This week there are no tutorials 

We have to do all the required reading based on the quiz.
The first reading by Dan Flecher is about friends that meet online specifically through facebook he speaks about how people have showed their emotions and basically writing about their daily routines on-line, which in the past decade was rear to occur. Well in my opinion thats not an advisable thing to do since people can stalk you easily as a person displays their wereabouts on an international scale.

The other readings for this week are optional the first one from Charles Peterson
and the last one is titled The Medium is the Message.

                              Our lectures this week are focussed on democracy

This topic (democracy) has been a topic done to death but these lecture notes considers the factors in which democracy happens which is good to read for us South Africans as we live in a democratic country.

Politial Power of Television

television sets

 This weeks major assignment was for all groups in each tutorial to polish up their News Articles for submisions, in the cases of plagiarism, the tutors need to check before submissions. For my group and I, we did manage to construct our News Article as we slacked at some places.
We also have Final Project: Topic and Instructions.

The part which i personally enjoyed this week

                                                           For the News Article

News article and my contribution.

Here is one of the news articles me and my group used.
Our tutorial group has a topic about the Protection of Information Bill which you can find more elaborated here
The sub-group that I am in in the tutorial will research more on the International coverage that the bill has had. 

As South Africa is a democratic country, freedom of expression should be practised for the citizens to always stay informed.
I as an individual contributed to the group by gathering different international sources to substantiate our argument as a group and have made effort of meeting with the other two members, Nqobile and Femida, to dicuss our article as a group.

WEEK 6 UPDATE-RESEARCH FOCUS

This weeks theme is Research focus that helps us students research for our news portal article.
This is the link given to us this week that elaborates on how to write a News Story

We also were required to do the weekly quiz that had two required readings.
This picture is showing the formula on writing a Successful Formula.

Heres one of the most visited sites for newspaper articles

 http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Newspapers/?gclid=CI67u7SS66MCFZFe4wodjDF03w

We also had to assess the other students for their blog specimen assessment form was found here

WEEK 5 UPDATE-Speaking Truth to Power

                                         Our weekly theme is Speaking Truth of Power.

 We had to also participate on quiz 3 during our tutorials.
The weeks lecture notes is based on the Emergence of an 'Alternative' Press in South Africa. They explain more on the History of South Africa as this country experienced apartheid and the lecture notes are also based on the role of news media in public debate and political action.Our weekly tutorial task was to create a zotero library and the news team assignment was to create an annoted bibliography and also start the readings for quiz 4.
heres a pictures as an example of a newspaper clipping

Another weekly topic elaborating more on  Heritage day

heres one of the articles that we used as a group for the News story

WEEK 4 UPDATE.

Each tutorial group this week has to create  a News Teams for research and reporting for INST102. There are 5 readings for quiz 3 that has to completed. The first reading by Posel is about an HIV woman living in a rural area that experience alot of poverty and the way of living for that woman is traditional were the use of traditional medicine is vital than modernized medicine.

The second reading by Malala is about his experience as a South African citizen experiencing crime, he and his family now have alot of fear of being crime victims.

The third reading by Khumalo is about a place in Soweto were the elite BEE come to relax and have a good time. Khumalo explains that despite of how rich a person is he or she remembers were he or she comes from.

The last lecture is about the explanatory of the democracy

week three update

This week our theme is Writing is technology. Our lecture is more about the Historical and political perspectives. We differentiate between pictures.

 
 The 2nd lecture was about the constitution of the bill of rights in South Africa
 There were two reading for the 2nd quiz that had to be done the first one was about the impact of printing 1450-1800, the 2nd reading was about the Revolutionary future.

Freedom of expression

To me freedom of expression is having the ability to share your thoughts and your ideas publically, were one is not afraid to share these thoughts as in some areas of the world the freedom to express your thoughts is non-existant.

My name is Phindile Pearl Ngubane, well im currently in KwaZulu Natal, Durban. I am currently a student in the University of KwaZulu Natal doing Bachelor of Social Science in Geography and Environmental Management. As a university student I have a dream of finishing my degree and the next year do my honours. If this is fulfilled I would have accomplished my goal as a university student. My life is basically based on campus as I am a full time student.

My main sources of information are the television(especially news24) written in English and published in DSTV, the newspapers(any that I can get hold of) but mostly Isolezwe, written in IsiZulu and I also read The Sunday Sun, that is given to people living in and around Isipingo, and the radio as I usually listen to 5fm dominated by English speaking DJs and I also listen to Gagasi Fm that has IsiZulu dominated DJs. When I want to know more on local or international celebrities and fashion I usually read magazines like Cosmopolitan and The Heat magazines both magazines cature for an English readers.

South Africa is a new democratic country that is why we have Section 16 on the constitution that catures for the freedom of expression. To me personally this is a vital right because the public has a right to know on what is happening around them as they, the people, participate on voting for a national party that they may think will serve them well and will meet their needs as the citizens of the country. Freedom of press is vital especially for a democratic country like South Africa, but newspapers especially tend to make a profit out of the right of Freedom of Expression, the journalists make a mockery of the people in high positions like the politicians personal lives which is unethical to do. Therefore there should be a small amount of limitations, to respecting the personal lives of anyone in the public eye.