I dunno about Sugar Rush because it wouldn’t be fair to judge just based on the screening but i highly recc: US version of Queer As Folk
Justin Taylor (played by Randy Harrison)
His coming out, his first time, his parents, the bias-ness of teachers at his school, the political aspect, the gay bashing that happens [...]
Queer Teen on Screen
Semiotics-Teens
Semiotics…
from -> http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem01.html
(extracted the bits that i understood to be…what constitutes semiotics..)
“Semiotics could be anywhere. The shortest definition is that it is the study of signs.
It would investigate the nature of signs and the laws governing them.”
“One of the broadest definitions is that of Umberto Eco, who states that ’semiotics is concerned with everything that [...]
B-A-N-G energy
Got hooked on skins after the screening.
actually i had a link to youtube where it was possible to watch season 1 and 2 of skins AND also a clip i wanted attached to this entry BUT its been suspended:(
anyways…in the episode on Sid, Tony wants to dump Michelle onto Sid…
bkgrd info: Tony has a choir perfomance and [...]
CIM culture-idol-machines (this is gonna be loOong)
One of the seminar topics was culture is not neutral: whom does it serve?
there is of course as most of life questions, no one straightforward answer…
For example: american broadcasting stations like abc …they would be govern by the board of directors, government/legal rules, racial quotas and so forth and yet somehow be able to feed the [...]
Hip Hop anyone?
Seeing how skate culture grew from a small town activity to rapidly grew into a globally commodified item, repackaged for the wider contemporary market (screen machine) I would like to bring up Hip Hop as a point of reference, please note, I am no expert, therefore if I make any mistakes, I do apologize!
Flipping through [...]
Television
My 2cents worth on television…
During the summer break when i went home, had the chance of visiting outer regions of thailand with my aunt (she came to singapore at the age of 20? 21? to work and met my uncle…awww…) anyway, her parents stay in one of the more rural areas and life there is drastically different, you eat, talk, walk around, [...]
Terminology…
To begin with, it is pretty hard to talk about anything without starting off with some sort of an attempt at defining the term ’culture’…
In the reader, under background reading there was a dictionary like piece on “Culture” Keywords by Raymond Williams which reminded me of, John Frow and Meaghan Morris Introduction, in Australian Culture Studies Reader, they do bring in [...]
Full on
Screening was full on! The number of people!
Anyway let me digress to my fav box…THE TELE!
The television business has a whole “industry” to its name…it’s influence probably as wide as the internet… Used as a form of media for advertising, it def responsible for a large part in influencing today’s commodity culture…
Having read the material on screen [...]
