ABC introduces online streaming

The article describes the introduction of video streaming to ABC at an important time when this was just becoming big, the idea of having to censor certain things, episodes, shows , etc was at the time coming into play for ABC and we were able to see how they have incorporated and blocked these things (videos, language), how they will dealt with balancing censorship with their viewers and the popularity of the different shows being stream. With video streaming becoming so big, the idea of what should be shone and what not is always up in the air, so you won't certain shows on Hulu but you might find it on a smaller site that has more adult content or gruesom material that may not be able to be viewed on Hulu because it is too graphic for its site or inappropriate and they do not want to hurt the ratings of the cite (along with other cites too).

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/05/6711.ars

Music and its regulation

This article talked about how music is delivered and received over the internet. How censorship affects their sales and downloads, and how people react to the explicit selection that may or may not be provided. There is a selection of clean or explicit music offered by an artist if he or she had any explicit songs, this is to please all audiences for maximum profits. This appeal is to keep a well liked ambiance of the artists among all ages and this is marked in such sites as itunes and other music download sites for mp3 players or ipods. Only of recent has music needed to be censored due to the language used and before everyone could listen to the same music and there was no need to have any music blocked or at least certain lyrics. The remediation in music of late has caused an increase in censorship of music.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/901040?Search=yes&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Donline+streaming+

Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil

This picture describes the hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil concept, with a censorship spin off. We use this pic to advance our argument of how censorship causes us to be ignorant of certain information and what the FCC wants us to know we have the privilege and availability to know, otherwise it stays under the table. Most of the time it is due to younger audiences for kid pg rating regulation and other standards, as well as other young sensitive material that is being restricted, to protect our kids. This picture helped us to understand why the public chooses to censor some things and leave other things in. this kind of reminds met when your mom tells you to cover your ears during a cursing scene or covers your eyes when there is a kissing scene, its to protect people from overloading us with material we may not be use to experiencing everyday as well as keeping a level of respect.

What is hidden from us? Is the truth hidden?

This image is describing censorship in the light of blocking information, entertainment, and leaving us in a sense of mystery and in a guessing game. the blank picture leaves us wondering what the picture could be entailing. It shows how affective and ineffective censorship can be because, the effect we get can be negative or frustrated due to the restriction on knowledge. It can be ineffective because we can usually get around it by viewing it on some unreated site or somewhere where the censorship is not taking place. We used this picture in our project by bridging the gap between what causes censorship and how we can get around it, whether it be online streaming or a picture. It helped us answer the question of how censorship affects views and how viewers react to this regulation.

Social Media Portfolio

It is through social media that we found both credible and interesting sources in our discussion of censorship in today's media. YouTube was one of our biggest contributors mainly because their site is the most involved in the issue based on the fact that they allow almost anyone to post a video to their site. This is unique compared to Hulu, iTunes and Google TV. So naturally YouTube has the most to lose and has to have the most trust in their followers. Therefore they have stricter rules and guidelines of what can and cannot be posted on their site. We found YouTube's restrictions right off of their main page under user agreements and restrictions. Here we also also found an educational page for parents to help guide their children in watching age appropriate videos. Next, we utilized YouTube for what it's known for; their videos. We found two completely different homemade videos about censorship specific to YouTube. While neither is 100% credible, they both offer good insight and interesting points about YouTube's newest posting requirements and limitations. By using YouTube as a media tool we gained a better understanding of what some people feel about YouTube's mandatory censoring of material through both the videos and the comments. We are also using social media to our advantage in this project because we decided to create a blog. This way it was our hope to get others involved in what we have to say and hear their opinions about online censorship. This way we could get an active conversation from different outside sources. Although in the end no one else commented on our blog we were still able to learn of other peoples' ideas through comments left on the videos and skimming through other active blogs. The talk is happening out there and many people are either really for censoring the media such as on YouTube, while others are completely against it saying it's taking away basic liberties. Our final media engagement was making an account with iTunes. We wanted to see how making an account worked to buy movies off of their site. In order to make an account we had to go through actually a quite lengthy terms and conditions page along with a profile. They wanted to know all kinds of information such as your full name, age, address, phone number and credit card. To us, this is pretty personal information but Apple wants to make sure your a credible person to do business with and trust. We purchased Due Date on our new iTunes account. The purchase went smoothly and we haven't had any problems. However, in order to buy it we were asked if we were 18 years of age once again because the movie is rated R. Therefore, iTunes still enacts an age requirement two different times, when you first make an account and as you are purchasing an age specific item. In the end however, it would have been extremely difficult to do this project without a social media influence. By using these sources we could better understand censorship's role today and the importance it plays into our topic. Web sites want to uphold a righteous and respected stature which can be done a little easier when they can control what is shown on their site, with their own name on the line.

censorship in the media is wrong!

Although it is clear is this not a very credible source, the video still brings up some important topics in our discussion of media censorship. This video is explaining how what things are being censored may not make a lot of sense to everyone. In this case, swear words are being censored, not words that have a deeper, more hurtful meaning to some people in history. Therefore, the point that I feel is necessary to get across through this un-scholarly video is that sometimes web sites block certain things while leaving other offensive things up. If you're going to block something that seems inappropriate, you need to block all of it otherwise viewers can still be offended by hearing it and also can become even more offended like this kid did in this case because a word that should of been censored in his eyes, wasn't. So the moral here is that if your going to control something by censoring it in the first place, do it completely and make sure you have all your bases covered so no one like this becomes offended in any way. This video also shows us how people really do care about these issues and web sites like YouTube and Hulu need to pay attention to it and keep their standards high.

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