Online Activism is a much more efficient way for activist to control protests and move people to different places without the authorities finding out about it. If you take the London riots, and the way they used social media to their advantage. This is a good example of how the internet can be used for Online Activism.
Does the internet have a dark side? Bloody right it has a dark side! Where do I start, online bullying, perverts, sickos meeting people and murdering them, do I need to go on?
Philip Markoff, A.K.A. the craigslist killer met women on craigslist and befriended them and in real life met up with them and murdered them.
Online bullying might not sound too bad, but in fact it has killed in Ireland and one such case is of Shannon Gallagher (15) was found dead in Co Donegal last night just months after her sister Erin (13) took her own life.
Perverts online, there have been so many instances of perverts online. Some collaborating with other perverts swapping images and discussing ways to improve tying kids up and so on.
What would happen if this happened in Ireland? Well I think if this happened, you would see more people out on the streets protesting, compared to the few that have been protesting about taxes.
The government in China have censored the internet and when asked why they think they can do this they simply said, they have the right to do it inside their own border.
I was on the creative lead of the viral, in our first meeting not everyone from the team could attend. So the few that where there decided to incorporate both ideas into one (music and game). The idea we came up with was.
Mario Jukebox Racing
Four drivers, each with a theme song that they will be lip singing in close up/over the shoulder shots that are edited in through out the race (in the style of ‘the Stig’ from Top gear. The example just happens to be Morse code but you get the idea).
The rest of the video will be built up of shots from various angles of the race, all the while having members of the class stationed as the crowd ‘singing/vocalizing’ the bizarre theme song that plays during races in the Mario Kart game. (this gets everyone on screen and if orchestrated well, will sound great)
The vid starts with the game-like selection of driver, 3… 2… 1… Upon GO, three drivers head the correct way, the fourth (one of our french students) goes the opposite, later to crash in a head on collision with another driver, angrily shouting in french with English subtitles explaining that the Irish drive on the wrong side of the road.
As in the game, there are question mark boxes that when collected supply driver with bananas/speed/etc. BUT, this is also to be how the driver collects their theme song, thus ‘Mario Jukebox’ the Q. mark boxes would appear to randomly select a song but of coarse this is pre-planned.
Drivers songs:
1. Circle of Life – The Lion King
2. Opera (production, take your pick)
3. Rollin – Limp Bizkit
4. Stereotypical Indian song, ding a ling a ling a ling a, ding a ling….
This was the post that we put up onto the CM3 Facebook page, and then the cribbing and moaning started everybody giving out about everything. I had enough and said that we would have another meeting on the in college and whatever the whole team came up with would be the one we where going ahead with. Meeting day came and the whole team turned up this time and we used my whiteboard markers to take notes in one of the lecture rooms.
We decided that we would use coloured powder to through at each other. The start of the video would have maybe five students stating that they were Business study students etc and then the camera would turn to a creative media student and then the fun would start.
Really not sure how but we ended up with something that we all agreed on. It still need to be ironed out a little but we had the main parts finished. We decided to hold another meeting and this time we had some of the production team with us, to make sure what we where purposing could be done within the time frame. All the while we where communicating through Facebook coming up with ideas for songs etc.
The video was looking good, well better than everyone giving out about nothing. That is what we done for the video, came up with the idea and passed it onto the production team it took a lot of effort to get it done but we succeeded and everyone on the creative team where well and truly involved in the video you can see this for yourself at……….
I believe Porn has had a big impact on western culture because of the way it has our children thinking about sex and what they think it is supposed to be all about. Children in Ireland are growing up in a different world than the one I grew up in where sex education was only really starting to be the norm i.e. watching a cartoon with bunnies in it.
Today children have access to an abundant amount of pornographic images, videos websites all very easy to access all they need to do is click their mouse and hey presto a dildo or whatever the want to look at or watch.
This is leaving an impression with them about sex; I believe that porn is putting an unwanted amount of pressure on our children to be the first in their group to have sex try different things during sex (like the videos they have been watching on the internet).
Porn is leaving children with the impression that you must have sex and do it this way and they think they “love” each other if they have sex, this is really untrue sex is physical and can show affection, but love is so much more than just a physical relationship children need to be thought that love is everything about their partner not just the good things but also the bad and standing by their partner through all the bad times with the good.
This is pressure children do NOT need in their lives especially during school years where this kind of pressure will have an effect on their studies.
“A moral panic is an intense feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order.[1] The term first appears in the English language in The Quarterly Christian Spectator, a publication from 1830”:
I would like to talk about the 1950’s in America and the moral panic about comic books; yes I did say comic books. In the 50’s in America, comic books where purring off the presses as it happens 20,000,000 per month were distributed around the U.S. This seems quite alright to me, comic books + kids = quiet kids, yes quiet kids until a moral panic starts, in California an 11 year old boy committed armed robbery and killed a 42 year old woman, his 20 year old brother said “if you want to know the cause of all this here its is; it’s these rotten comic books cut them up and things like this would not happen”.
Really? Yes really! This started a moral panic and even triggered the forming of a senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency in 1954, stating the comic books were contributing to juvenile delinquency. The sensate subcommittee was quick to eviscerate the comic book industry attacking all comics’ crime comics, superman comics saying kids might read a superman comic and think they could fly and jump off a roof! Even attacking comic books because of the size of the print saying they would rune the kid’s eyes.
Frederic Wertham wrote in his 1954 book, “Seduction of the Innocent,”Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic-book industry.” I have to say I love this quote for the simple fact of the pure bunkum that it oozes, Hitler who killed millions is a beginner! Compared to a comic which done what? Entertain children.
There were advertisements made about how comic books would rune children 3:18 minutes into this video clip shows one such advert and the perversion that was the comic book http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr62iKBwQTM
The comic book industry then formed the C.M.A, comics magazine association, the C.M.A would sensor all comics and the first thing they done was to outlaw the use of words like horror, terror and weird. Thinking that this would stop kids developing into juvenile delinquents and never even letting the thought into their heads that some kids could and would become killers like the 11 year old buy in California without the help of a comic book.
First of all what is a Viral video to quote Wikipedia “A viral video is a video that becomes popular through the process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites, social media and email.”
A Viral video can be of anything really, but what makes it become Viral? You could spend your days out on the streets with your video camera hoping something funny is going to happen or you could go out and make a video from scratch.
Making a video go Viral from scratch would involve brainstorming, getting the idea from brainstorming and refining it to a T, when you are happy with your idea you must go and start planning how you are going to implement it. There are many aspects of planning, what you need for it, how many people you need for it, where it will take place.
Your idea in my opinion must have something that will make people want to watch your video; a funny video? Yes but not just funny will make your video go Viral you need more than funny! Original ideas could be the best way of making a video go Viral one of a kind would be great this all must be worked out in your brainstorming.
There are many ‘Viral’ videos out there but some of the best ones are the simplest ones you can go “flash” and get nothing for it, one video comes to mind that has gone Viral with 512,617,624 views (at the time of me typing this 16:35hrs on 19/02/2013) and all it is, is two little brothers sitting in their house with their Daddy recording them the older of the two puts his finger into the smaller ones mouth and gets bitten and low and behold he does it again simple comedy but real life, this could also attribute to a video going Viral the reality of a video or making a video look like it is really happening.
