Yesterday on 23.2.2008 died Janez Drnovsek, the former president of Slovenia and in his memory I'm posting these two videos which are a part of an intervew made with him by Al Jazeera television network.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
VLOG BLOG
Vlog blog is a site dedicated to the Vlog, there all the general informations can be found and all of the things conected with vlogging.
I found this vlog made By Gordon Brown talking about how new times and new media demand new ways for reaching the audiences.
I found this vlog made By Gordon Brown talking about how new times and new media demand new ways for reaching the audiences.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
YouTube postings comparison of Clinton and Obama (6.2.2008)
On the day after supertuesday I have decided to do the check-up of what video posts were available on the portals YouTube, portal of the campaign of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama as it was already clear that that is where the main battle for votes shall be as on the republican side McCain was already in strong lead.
So what I decided was first to examine the 10 results on the first page of results that would appear if I entered the names of the candidates in the YouTube search engine.
When entering Hillary Clinton these were the results:
1. Coulter: I'll campaign for Hillary if McCain is the nominee Published on 31.1. 2008 it is a piece copied from Fox News presenting Hillary as a more conservative as John McCain. It had 65 video responses and 3689 written comments.
2. Keith Olbermann Blasts Hillary Clinton on her Iraq Vote
Published on 2.2.2008 the video deals with Clinton’s reasons for not supporting the 2002 amendment and the critique of such decision. There are 3 video responses and 155 text comments.
3. Vote Different Published on 5.5.2007 is a video mash up of the Apple Mackintosh video, presenting Hillary Clinton as Big Brother figure from Orwell’s novel 1984. The video has today 6 video responses and 21036 text comments published so far.
4. Hillary Clinton Sopranos Parody a video made for the Clinton campaign presenting Hillary and Bill Clinton in a restaurant and choosing a song. 13 Video responses,2366 text comments 434922 views.
5. Hillary Clinton Sings National Anthem A video on which Hillary Clinton sings badly the American anthem. No video responses, 8036 text comments and 1769385 views
6. Debate - Hillary Clinton on illegal immigrants/licenses Video clip from 30.10.2007 debate presenting Clinton as uncertain and unclear on this issue. This video has 60682 views and no video responses of text comments.
7. The Politics of Parsing A video dealing with the debate and unclear issues of the candidate from the debate on 30.11.2007. Video published on 2.11.2007- 13 video responses 2083 comments and377292 views altogether.
8. CNN Interviews Student Who asks Hillary a Planted Question A student claims that she was asked a question that she has been instructed to ask. Video published on 13.11.2007 224519 views no comments or responses.
9. Mike Gravel Exposes Clinton & Obama on Iran, Hillary Cackles Mike Gravel’s attack on Hillary at the democratic debate. Published on 26.9.2007 with 275922 views, 13responses and 2758 comments
10. 236.com: SwiftKids-Hillary Clinton A video made in a documentary way featuring several children presenting Clinton as a man, thief, etc. Published on 9.11.2007 128411 views, 3 video responses and 268 comments.
When entering Barack Obama
1. Barack Obama's response to Bush's final State of the Union Obama presents his views as opposiite to Bush. Posted on 26.1.2008 1088369 views 760 comments
2. Yes We Can - Barack Obama Music Video A music video presenting various famous Obama supporters singing his slogan Yes we can and speaking segments of his speeches.. Published on 2.2.2008 1846345views 59 video responses and 10547 comments.
3. Barack Obama: My Plans for 2008 Barack Obama speaking to his audience about 2008. 666154views. 14video responses and 3690 comments
4. Candidates@Google: Barack Obama Barack Obama visiting google and interview. 116995 views and 0 comments.
5. Barack Obama's Speech at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner Live speech of Obama at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner. 10.11.2007 267558 Views 3video responses 1239 comments
6. Barack Obama "I inhaled frequently" "That was the point" Barack obama admiting using marijuana. 2.11.2007 168176views 566comments
7.FOX ATTACKS OBAMA A composition of televiosion attacks on Obama. Published on 21.2.2007 962176views 12593comments.
8.Meet Barack Obama Presentational video for the candidate. Posted on 19.1.2007 385184 veiws 13 video responses and 1468 comments
9.Barack Obama Iowa Caucus Victory Speech 3.1.2008 276426 views 17 video responses,3514comments.
10.Barack Obama 2004 Democratic National Convention Part 1 The Video of Speech made by Obama in 2004. Published on 16.9.2006, 253978 Views, 1 video response and 1307 comments.
It needs to be said that the search was made on the setting that the results are shown as the most relevant of all time this is the default search setting of You tube and would be found without any changes made and probably the information that a new user would therefore get. What can easily be observed is that Obama search provides a lot more materials that promote him and his campaign and that critics are a lot fewer than in the case of Hillary Clinton. This form me is an indication of how the Obama campaign if far more aware of the importance of these kind of search in trough the search engine of YouTube, making a far better impression than Clinton.
So what I decided was first to examine the 10 results on the first page of results that would appear if I entered the names of the candidates in the YouTube search engine.
When entering Hillary Clinton these were the results:
1. Coulter: I'll campaign for Hillary if McCain is the nominee Published on 31.1. 2008 it is a piece copied from Fox News presenting Hillary as a more conservative as John McCain. It had 65 video responses and 3689 written comments.
2. Keith Olbermann Blasts Hillary Clinton on her Iraq Vote
Published on 2.2.2008 the video deals with Clinton’s reasons for not supporting the 2002 amendment and the critique of such decision. There are 3 video responses and 155 text comments.
3. Vote Different Published on 5.5.2007 is a video mash up of the Apple Mackintosh video, presenting Hillary Clinton as Big Brother figure from Orwell’s novel 1984. The video has today 6 video responses and 21036 text comments published so far.
4. Hillary Clinton Sopranos Parody a video made for the Clinton campaign presenting Hillary and Bill Clinton in a restaurant and choosing a song. 13 Video responses,2366 text comments 434922 views.
5. Hillary Clinton Sings National Anthem A video on which Hillary Clinton sings badly the American anthem. No video responses, 8036 text comments and 1769385 views
6. Debate - Hillary Clinton on illegal immigrants/licenses Video clip from 30.10.2007 debate presenting Clinton as uncertain and unclear on this issue. This video has 60682 views and no video responses of text comments.
7. The Politics of Parsing A video dealing with the debate and unclear issues of the candidate from the debate on 30.11.2007. Video published on 2.11.2007- 13 video responses 2083 comments and377292 views altogether.
8. CNN Interviews Student Who asks Hillary a Planted Question A student claims that she was asked a question that she has been instructed to ask. Video published on 13.11.2007 224519 views no comments or responses.
9. Mike Gravel Exposes Clinton & Obama on Iran, Hillary Cackles Mike Gravel’s attack on Hillary at the democratic debate. Published on 26.9.2007 with 275922 views, 13responses and 2758 comments
10. 236.com: SwiftKids-Hillary Clinton A video made in a documentary way featuring several children presenting Clinton as a man, thief, etc. Published on 9.11.2007 128411 views, 3 video responses and 268 comments.
When entering Barack Obama
1. Barack Obama's response to Bush's final State of the Union Obama presents his views as opposiite to Bush. Posted on 26.1.2008 1088369 views 760 comments
2. Yes We Can - Barack Obama Music Video A music video presenting various famous Obama supporters singing his slogan Yes we can and speaking segments of his speeches.. Published on 2.2.2008 1846345views 59 video responses and 10547 comments.
3. Barack Obama: My Plans for 2008 Barack Obama speaking to his audience about 2008. 666154views. 14video responses and 3690 comments
4. Candidates@Google: Barack Obama Barack Obama visiting google and interview. 116995 views and 0 comments.
5. Barack Obama's Speech at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner Live speech of Obama at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner. 10.11.2007 267558 Views 3video responses 1239 comments
6. Barack Obama "I inhaled frequently" "That was the point" Barack obama admiting using marijuana. 2.11.2007 168176views 566comments
7.FOX ATTACKS OBAMA A composition of televiosion attacks on Obama. Published on 21.2.2007 962176views 12593comments.
8.Meet Barack Obama Presentational video for the candidate. Posted on 19.1.2007 385184 veiws 13 video responses and 1468 comments
9.Barack Obama Iowa Caucus Victory Speech 3.1.2008 276426 views 17 video responses,3514comments.
10.Barack Obama 2004 Democratic National Convention Part 1 The Video of Speech made by Obama in 2004. Published on 16.9.2006, 253978 Views, 1 video response and 1307 comments.
It needs to be said that the search was made on the setting that the results are shown as the most relevant of all time this is the default search setting of You tube and would be found without any changes made and probably the information that a new user would therefore get. What can easily be observed is that Obama search provides a lot more materials that promote him and his campaign and that critics are a lot fewer than in the case of Hillary Clinton. This form me is an indication of how the Obama campaign if far more aware of the importance of these kind of search in trough the search engine of YouTube, making a far better impression than Clinton.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
And I am back
As you can see I have not made a post for over two weeks, this is due to the hours I have had to spend at work (I had several up to 18 hours consecutive shifts- I can assure you I was wrecked) and there was no new media available for use in sight. In the mean while the American election has reached its boiling point I have been following information for the whole day on www.ccn.com , www.pollster.com and http://www.buzzmachine.com/
That I have all added amongst my recommended links. The last is the blog of Jeff Jarvis a famous journalist which also writes about the election and internet. Very cool stuff, what I find very interesting are the comments to his posts.
What you might notice is that I have changed the image of my blog and that there are some minor new changes.
I have also been thinking about the project that I have set to do and have come to an important conclusion and that is that there are really not enough relevant music videos being posted in the past weeks for them to really matter. I have therefore decided I will have to amplify my line research onto the use of general video posts focusing primarily on you tube that where the postings are the most popular. Also, I shall look at the videos that are being posted on the sites of the candidates. I believe that this change is not too drastic as I have been thinking about it quite a lot. The fact is that most of the music videos which can be found on the internet in relation to political topics are spoofs and parodies which in many cases are of a very poor quality and are often just trying to insult the opposing candidates and are often produced without any original musical material.
I hope to see the entire group tomorrow at eight on online.
Best regards,
J
That I have all added amongst my recommended links. The last is the blog of Jeff Jarvis a famous journalist which also writes about the election and internet. Very cool stuff, what I find very interesting are the comments to his posts.
What you might notice is that I have changed the image of my blog and that there are some minor new changes.
I have also been thinking about the project that I have set to do and have come to an important conclusion and that is that there are really not enough relevant music videos being posted in the past weeks for them to really matter. I have therefore decided I will have to amplify my line research onto the use of general video posts focusing primarily on you tube that where the postings are the most popular. Also, I shall look at the videos that are being posted on the sites of the candidates. I believe that this change is not too drastic as I have been thinking about it quite a lot. The fact is that most of the music videos which can be found on the internet in relation to political topics are spoofs and parodies which in many cases are of a very poor quality and are often just trying to insult the opposing candidates and are often produced without any original musical material.
I hope to see the entire group tomorrow at eight on online.
Best regards,
J
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Assignment 3
How and why does society change in a certain way is the eternal question of social sciences. The theory of Thecnological determinism offers an explication which is that it is the change in the technology that causes change in the society. In case of modern situation we could easily draw parallels between technologies that enable us easier communication and change in the firm of the communication that such technologies bring. If technological development is in most cases something we look forward to it is also something that scares us. And if we look into the past we can see that the relationship between people and technology has always had these two elements amazement on one and fright on the other side.
It was the time of the industrial revolution that we can observe for the first time how new technologies were changing the economy, landscape and social relations. Steam engine was making Europe smaller, production faster and workers no longer needed at the same time as new nations of Europe were being born. It was from the 19th century onwards that we can observe a stronger dependence on technology in everyday life. New machines were being developed that would make products quicker and in a standardized way and changing the demand of the working force. That there was a change happening in the basic social relationships between the employer and the employee we could understand when Marx wrote “Like any other increase, in the productiveness of labor, machinery is intended to cheapen commodities, and, by shortening that portion of the working-day, in which the laborer works for himself, to lengthen the other portion that he gives, without an equivalent, to the capitalist” (Marx, 2004: 280). Technology has since always had a very important function saving money and time. And like the machines of the 19 century influenced the demands of work force and production in a very drastic way, this is what has happened to the ways and forms of communication in the 20 century.
But even if I believe that we are dependant on the tools that we use, and that each historic society is defined by its tools, these tools were created due to the need of the society, or as McLuhan said how we create our tools and they in turn shape us. It is so that the tools in my personal opinion are shaping the society only to the limit of the societies need and desire to use them. There have been thousands of inventions that have appeared needed and practical but were rejected by the society. The Idea of technological determinism is there fore difficult to use in a way in which we would say that the tools made it possible for a society to achieve a certain level. I believe that this concept is much more useful in way in which we could explore what were the priorities in a certain society by examining which technology was the most used and crucial in a certain time period.
If I would apply these thought to the modern situation I am certain that the communicational capabilities that we use are by far not developed to the limit, but are limited by those who use them. This could be understood by a certain degree with sense of insecurity that many of us feel toward technology that has been in use for a short period of time. As there are many examples of abuse of technology that has appeared benign but has showed its “dark side” after time.
-Daniel Chandler, Technological or Media Determinism. Available at: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/tecdet/tecdet.html
-Marx Karl, Engels Friedrich (2004): Communist Manifesto, Wages, Price and Profit, Capital (selections), Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. The Collector’s Library of essential thinkers. London: CRW Publishing Limited
- Slides Technological Determinism of Marshall McLuhan, http://www.usm.maine.edu/com/techdet/sld001.htm
It was the time of the industrial revolution that we can observe for the first time how new technologies were changing the economy, landscape and social relations. Steam engine was making Europe smaller, production faster and workers no longer needed at the same time as new nations of Europe were being born. It was from the 19th century onwards that we can observe a stronger dependence on technology in everyday life. New machines were being developed that would make products quicker and in a standardized way and changing the demand of the working force. That there was a change happening in the basic social relationships between the employer and the employee we could understand when Marx wrote “Like any other increase, in the productiveness of labor, machinery is intended to cheapen commodities, and, by shortening that portion of the working-day, in which the laborer works for himself, to lengthen the other portion that he gives, without an equivalent, to the capitalist” (Marx, 2004: 280). Technology has since always had a very important function saving money and time. And like the machines of the 19 century influenced the demands of work force and production in a very drastic way, this is what has happened to the ways and forms of communication in the 20 century.
But even if I believe that we are dependant on the tools that we use, and that each historic society is defined by its tools, these tools were created due to the need of the society, or as McLuhan said how we create our tools and they in turn shape us. It is so that the tools in my personal opinion are shaping the society only to the limit of the societies need and desire to use them. There have been thousands of inventions that have appeared needed and practical but were rejected by the society. The Idea of technological determinism is there fore difficult to use in a way in which we would say that the tools made it possible for a society to achieve a certain level. I believe that this concept is much more useful in way in which we could explore what were the priorities in a certain society by examining which technology was the most used and crucial in a certain time period.
If I would apply these thought to the modern situation I am certain that the communicational capabilities that we use are by far not developed to the limit, but are limited by those who use them. This could be understood by a certain degree with sense of insecurity that many of us feel toward technology that has been in use for a short period of time. As there are many examples of abuse of technology that has appeared benign but has showed its “dark side” after time.
-Daniel Chandler, Technological or Media Determinism. Available at: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/tecdet/tecdet.html
-Marx Karl, Engels Friedrich (2004): Communist Manifesto, Wages, Price and Profit, Capital (selections), Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. The Collector’s Library of essential thinkers. London: CRW Publishing Limited
- Slides Technological Determinism of Marshall McLuhan, http://www.usm.maine.edu/com/techdet/sld001.htm
Monday, January 14, 2008
Celebrity support of the candidates
After nine months of fundraising, the candidates for president in 2008 have already raised about $420 million. This presidential money chase seems to be on track to collect an unprecedented $1 billion total. By some predictions, the eventual nominees will need to raise $500 million apiece to compete--a record sum. Year-end reports are due to the Federal Election Commission by Jan. 31.
The politics and showbusiness have always been strongly connected. The support of the celebrities always came in two ways the financial support and the personal promotional support. In 2004 presidential elections gave the movie, TV and recording industries $33.1 million to federal candidates, which represents an enormous support, but next to the money the celebrities and the entertainment business also promote their candidates trough the media.
For the presidential election 2008 some of the numbers connected with celebrity support are already known and are presented in an article on CNN web site
( http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/13/celebrity.donors.ap/index.html )
Celebrities like Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Paul Newman, Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Mary Steenburgen, Oprah Winfrey, Will Smith, Chris Rock, Sidney Poitier and Branford Marsalis, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Isaiah Washington, Tyra Banks, Morgan Freeman, Halle Berry, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker,George Clooney, Ed Norton, Jennifer Aniston, Zach Braff, John Cleese, Leonard Nimoy, Brooke Shields, Harry Connick Jr., Hill Harper and Rob Reiner have financially supported the campaigns of one or more Democratic candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson and Chris Dodd, Dennis Kucinich. (if you want to see more precise information on which selebrity supports whom see the folowing article:http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-et-cause11jan11,0,7865509.story?coll=la-politics-campaign ).
For the Republican candidates John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee support and endorsements were given by Pat Boone, Lorne Michaels, Chuck Norris, Kelsey Grammer, Adam Sandler and Ben Stein.
Most of the celebrities gave up to $4.600 dollars per campaign in support of the candidates but were not as generous with public endorsements. Most of the celebrities have namely still not endorsed any of the candidates. What is clearly visible from the two lists is that also in this election the entertainment world is more strongly supporting the Democratic candidates.
The politics and showbusiness have always been strongly connected. The support of the celebrities always came in two ways the financial support and the personal promotional support. In 2004 presidential elections gave the movie, TV and recording industries $33.1 million to federal candidates, which represents an enormous support, but next to the money the celebrities and the entertainment business also promote their candidates trough the media.
For the presidential election 2008 some of the numbers connected with celebrity support are already known and are presented in an article on CNN web site
( http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/13/celebrity.donors.ap/index.html )
Celebrities like Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Paul Newman, Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Mary Steenburgen, Oprah Winfrey, Will Smith, Chris Rock, Sidney Poitier and Branford Marsalis, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Isaiah Washington, Tyra Banks, Morgan Freeman, Halle Berry, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker,George Clooney, Ed Norton, Jennifer Aniston, Zach Braff, John Cleese, Leonard Nimoy, Brooke Shields, Harry Connick Jr., Hill Harper and Rob Reiner have financially supported the campaigns of one or more Democratic candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson and Chris Dodd, Dennis Kucinich. (if you want to see more precise information on which selebrity supports whom see the folowing article:http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-et-cause11jan11,0,7865509.story?coll=la-politics-campaign ).
For the Republican candidates John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee support and endorsements were given by Pat Boone, Lorne Michaels, Chuck Norris, Kelsey Grammer, Adam Sandler and Ben Stein.
Most of the celebrities gave up to $4.600 dollars per campaign in support of the candidates but were not as generous with public endorsements. Most of the celebrities have namely still not endorsed any of the candidates. What is clearly visible from the two lists is that also in this election the entertainment world is more strongly supporting the Democratic candidates.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Let the games begin
The presidential campaign in the States has begun to reveal who the candidates in 2008 campaign will be. The voters of Iowa were the first to vote for the candidates that will run for the president of the country. It is obvious that the public's eye is on the Democratic party which is where the next American president is the most likely to come and in any case it would be something new in the American history. If one of the two most powerful candidates on the democratic side would win, Hillary Clinton would be the first woman president and Barack Obama the first African American president ever.
Their campaign has begun almost a year before and what is also new to the whole thing is the complexity of use of internet as a media of political propaganda.
Sites like www.hillaryclinton.com and www.barackobama.com are both highly interactive and appealing.
But the war for votes also takes place on other parts of the internet. One of the most interesting is the one taking place on you tube. There we can see that even if Se. Clinton was the first to use you tube for its promotion its opponents have taken the opportunity and posted very critical videos of her. So if on 8th of January 2008 you typed inn her name the first five posts are all critics or parodies on her.
If we make a search for Barack Obama we can see that the first five results are all pro-Obama. Obama has been namely very strongly supported by the internet users and probably one of the greatest successes of the whole campaign was the music video made the so called Obama girl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU.
Their campaign has begun almost a year before and what is also new to the whole thing is the complexity of use of internet as a media of political propaganda.
Sites like www.hillaryclinton.com and www.barackobama.com are both highly interactive and appealing.
But the war for votes also takes place on other parts of the internet. One of the most interesting is the one taking place on you tube. There we can see that even if Se. Clinton was the first to use you tube for its promotion its opponents have taken the opportunity and posted very critical videos of her. So if on 8th of January 2008 you typed inn her name the first five posts are all critics or parodies on her.
If we make a search for Barack Obama we can see that the first five results are all pro-Obama. Obama has been namely very strongly supported by the internet users and probably one of the greatest successes of the whole campaign was the music video made the so called Obama girl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU.
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