This summative project shows how we did in overall this unit, which includes annotation, creating products, how to bring awareness to the public.etcIn this unit, we had learned about biases and stereotypes which occur everywhere, we learned how to detect bias from different types of media, annotate the content and see if they are biased, we have done several activities throughout this unit such as annotation, an essay that brings awareness.etc
Bias In Media: this document includes everything except annotation, it has analysis to annotations and how we should be aware of media bias.
News Articles Annotation:
Over this unit, we had done a lot of annotation activities, this pdf shows my both summative a projects, both articles are focusing on politics.
- North Korea pushing “vanity projects” as Olympics near, despite suffering in Kim Jon Un’s regime
- Pence tweets support for gay US Olympian who trashed him: ‘We are FOR YOU’ :
Print-Ad: moving on to the next section, image bias, we also annotated images in the project, the techniques used for detecting bias from images are similar. However, biases and stereotypes are mostly based on the camera angle and how it portraits the character in the image.
We were asked to creat an product which brings awarness to the public and letting them to be more aware of media bias, I made two products that brings awarness, the first drawing shows bias in media, and the second drawing shows stereotypes shown in media.
The Impact of Media Bias on individuals and society
My first drawing shows the impact of media bias on individuals and society, there are a lot of news organizations trying to be unbiased and reliable. However, I think the biggest issue is the primary purpose of a biased news or viral rumor is money, as the report is more interesting to the audience, the trends and search frequency increases on the internet which makes a lot of money for the news organization. In my drawing, it shows the cameraman is told to choose a reporter who actually produces a fake topic about Republicans instead of the truth of Republicans, from the live stream, it shows that the reporter actually looks like an expert but behind the scene, he is actually wearing an underpants, this shows he disrespects to his job and he is actually not an expert as we see on the TV, the cameraman adjust the camera to the fake expert instead of focusing on the real political expert because the fake expert produces search frequncy on internet. However, the fact doesn’t really grab attention. It also shows the man is asking for money as he is hidden by the camera, it shows how social media keeps the truth as a secret. Most importantly, when people think what they see is true, they would spread the news to people around them, this is why the views of “ONN” live stream is very high, most people would spread the message through social media, it causes extra impressions to people (could be strangers) who haven’t seen this, so more people would see this fake news as a “fact” to something especially when someone spreads this message with adding more personal opinions into this news as he/she shares this.
As a citizen living in Taiwan, after learning the lessons of detecting bias, I realized the danger of social media hidden in Taiwan’s internet, It has a big difference to CNN, BBC. etc these more reliable news sources, the difference is that it is extremely biased, they add their opinions to the news directly, especially to China, North Korea. etc countries that they fight against with, this is a big issue to everyone living in Taiwan, it would really change our opinions to something. I hope this brings awareness of media bias to everyone, especially us, Taiwanese because media of Taiwan is not that reliable than we thought.
Second Drawing:
My second drawing shows stereotypes occur in media and daily life. The title of my drawing is black and white, it represents old-thinking, these 4 doodle characters are the main focus of this drawing, it shows that the boy likes pink and he likes boys instead of girls. However, his parent and people around him think that’s not what a man does and the definition of love is a man and a woman. In my drawing, it also shows stereotypes toward gender, pink is for girls and blue is for boys, boys play guitars and girls play violins, boys wear simple shirts and girls wear dresses, men go to work and women take care of the family and would like to shop. The heart located at the border shows the definition of love is only a man and a woman.
These stereotypes are ironic, representing how most people and the society view things. they stereotyped everything, this drawing is an example of gender. on social media, stereotypes occur everywhere, this impact how people view things, they could become biased, too. social media makes huge impacts on the society, either good ways or bad ways, and the stereotypes of social media is definitely impacting the society in a really bad way, people should break the stereotypes and makes the society becomes more open-minded instead of spreading stereotypes.