Specialist Study

DeepFake/ Truth 
The specialist study of the FMP have the theme of truth
The specialist study: Is a piece of academic writing (essay). Clear structure.
Includes referencing, bibliography
Explore a theoretical perspective that interests you.
e.g: to what extent is the news truthful
e.g: drawing on action movies
e.g: an exploration of "fly the wall" documentary
e.g: truth in adverts
DeepFake
 very convincing AI spoof videos
tech is advancing very rapidly
how do you know whether news are official or fake?
source of news should help us know if it is fake
Truth in the media 
Fyre Documentary- the greatest party that never happened
  • Biggest scam of the recent years: sold a festival that never happened based on slick advertising using influencers 
  • The event was secondary to the selling of it
  • Influencers, celebrity is predicated on promoting a celebrity version of themselves, is the fyre fiasco a reflection of this? 
Adverts influence people to believe that something is real when at the end is nothing compared to what was shown to people. “A precautionary tale of over-selling and under-delivering in the modern social media age” 
How to check fake news (BBC Trending)
  • Internetsearch
  • Use trustworthy source like BBC News 
People do it for the money, each time they have a fake story and people search on their website; they do it to influence opinions of other people; and they do it for joke
Hypernormalisation Documentary
  • The USA (President Reagan) characterised colonel Gaddafi and Libya as the key terror threat in 1986, exploiting this desire for notoriety and his eccentric personality. 
  • This deflected from president Assad (Syria)’s and Ayatollah Khomeini (Iran)’s (more significant) campaigns of terror in name of Hezbollah- suicide bombers. 
Web 1.0 or 2.0
Internet- around since late 1970/ early 1980 but limited 
Early 1990s- used by academics in universities for messaging research 
Web 1.0
  •  characterised by research
  • Sending emails 
Around 2000 Web 2.0 
  • Characterised by instant messaging (msn) 
  • Social media (my space) 
  • Interactivity - early 2000 - streaming/ youtube/ facebook 
Bando 1961 
Henry Jenkins - a cultural optimist who sees new media as a force for good.

  • fans / audience create their own stories and versions of products, question, share, participate.  generate their own ideas 















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