The All Seeing Public Eye By Derek Wallace Analysis

and what they are equipped to do. Some of these devices are able to scan and analyze , what they

Although cameras are machines used to capture a moment, Ondaatje argues that they do not accurately portray a person’s essence and their true self. To know someone’s genuine character, one must interact with them, rather than only viewing them through “ground glass or tripod” or the stories told through another person’s perspective. “Ground glass” represents camera’s lenses, a filter altering reality to fit the desired perception of a moment. Cameras are machines that influence someone’s perspective, rather than providing the true nature. Readers typically view Western society as an unknown wild land with no laws, but is it really so? Ondaatje’s use of cameras as a machine questions this notion and shows that cameras and images are only a biased representation of someone and how they want to be perceived.

Video. Video is a word that anyone in the 21st century hears almost every day, whether the video comes from a security camera, video camera, or cell phone camera. However, in 1994, modern video cameras were still in boom after emerging in the 1980’s, and this is when Don DeLillo wrote about a video camera use gone wrong, with a much deeper and darker meaning underneath it. Don DeLillo wrote “Videotape” in 1994, and it represents the faults of videotapes used by the current media and how exposure to events like those in the story cause a shift in human emotion.

As a 6-year old kindergartener how do you thing it would feel to be called nasty things and threatened just because you are going to school while you are black? The first article is called 50 Years after Childhood Stand, Ruby Bridges Still works for Change Is by Lottie L. Joiner and is about a little girl named Ruby Bridges who was selected to go to an all white school called William Frantz Public School where she is bullied about her race but doesn’t understand that she is. The second article is called Through My Eyes and is written by Ruby Bridges this article is about Ruby Bridges when she was selected to go to William Frantz Public School and what she felt. Both of these articles are the same in so many ways but have differences.

Today’s mainstream media has a deep influence on numerous aspects of economical and social life, it provides information and data almost on everything that happens on our planet. Mainstream media became one of the most important and influential instruments in our society, as the news stories reach a large numbers of people in a short time. Different people are using mainstream media as a first source of information; humans need the information, which is why there is a great deal of trust on media. We follow the news because it is our duty as citizens to be informed; it gives us the facts that help us make the right decisions and also gives us something to talk about. The media has a great public responsibility in front of their audience;

Media is not a novel presence, but its influences are ever evolving and increasing exponentially. Whether through print or television each type of media is vitally important for a politician. Politicians must focus on the message that is to be conveyed and be aware of the influence each media type has. Print ads, radio shows, television interviews, magazine articles and debates all have a degree of effectiveness on a voting demographic. Mastering the media effects on the people that are to be influenced is the key to successful communication of ideas and a successful political career.

In today's generation people don't take the time to observe their surroundings. They just focus on the screens that are in their hands. Technology has changed nature’s beauty. Technology is the only observation and thing that people take the time to stop what they are doing and look at. Throughout time things have changed people stop focusing on the things around them. People have stopped talking to the people around them just to focus on their technology.

In conclusion, although there’s gap between how general society see, understand， accept and engage in documentary photography, Rosler believed that it’s better to find out a method that not only retain criticism about social culture but also run a countering practice of photography.

The media influences how people experience social life. Media such as newspaper, television and film, are important sources of information, education and entertainment. It can be used to learn more about the world and the people in it. In this regard it can be said that the media represent, interpret and endorse aspects of social experience (O’Shaughnessy and Stadler, 2005). The media are also implicated in social regulation, or in other terms, the government of society. The media are implicated in government and politics in an obvious way because modern systems of democracy are conducted through the media. But the media have a bigger role to play in government by structuring how society is controlled and maintained.

In the 21st century, people of all ages have learned to use some sort of everyday communication technology. For that reason, communication technologies are a big part of society’s daily lives. The existence of surveillance in our everyday communication technologies can be understood as a cultural necessity. The way that the existence of surveillance in our everyday communication technologies can be understood as a cultural necessity is shown through Mark Andrejevic’s article named “The Work of Being Watched: Interactive Media and the Exploitation of Self-Disclosure”, Slack’s article of "Convenience" and Rosen J’s article named “The unwanted gaze: The destruction of privacy in America, New York:Random House.

Photojournalism, present day finds itself standing at the proverbial crossroads. Will digital imaging technologies and public cynicism lead to its downfall or will journalists rise to the challenge by practicing a new more credible form of visual /photo journalism. Ethical blunders by such journalistic icons as National Geographic and TIME have all contributed to visual journalism losing credibility with the public. It was only a hundred years ago that people believed what saw in photographs was true. On the other hand present day, the increasing response to an unusual photograph is "They did that with PhotoShop." Where does this leave a medium whose mission is to deliver a realistic eyewitness

“The Politics of Surveillance: Big Brother on Prozac,” explores motives behind increased CCTV surveillance and the question of why CCTV cameras have become so significant in the United Kingdom. Closed-circuit television, CCTV, is video surveillance transmit technology that sends signals to set monitors. This source cited “Crime and the City” in explaining the worldwide use of this surveillance technology. In the United Kingdom, many public and private investments were made to increase street surveillance with CCTV in the 1990s. This dynamic surveillance growth is a major regulation of society influencing public and politics life as seen in the “Crime and the City” survey analysis. Small scale CCTV projects in UK buses, parking lots, and shops

Media plays a big role in society these days. Whether it be letting society know what is going on the in the world today or something as simple as updates on current life on social media. The media's role in society not only delivers information of the world but also brings people together through common interests or general talks. In Brian Knappenberger's documentary: Nobody Speak: Trials of Free Press it is seen how media effect lives and how there is a much stronger meaning to what media stands for in society and why media needs to take its stand when it comes to people who want to devour them.

Red Road, a 2006 Scottish film directed by Andrea Arnold illustrates Closed-Circuit Television’s (CCTV) usage, operation, and operator Jackie Morrison interacting with society. The following response, suggests that Jackie Morrison performs unethical usage of CCTV as well as breach of social norms. Furthermore, this will be accomplished by conducting an analyzation of the main plot of the film, and relating it to the theoretical discussion on ethical concerns regarding state surveillance. Additionally, key moments from the film will be used as examples to suggest a relation between the theoretical discussion and the film.

At the beginning of the semester, I wrote that I believed technology is beneficial for our world. I wrote that tech has globalized the world, increased connectivity in many aspects, and made tasks of daily life more efficient. Additionally, I wrote of my biggest concern about technology. More advancements in and more penetration of technology has potential to cause humans to become completely co-dependent on technology for communication and recreation. I still hold on to these concerns today. But due to this course, I have a vaster and deeper understanding of the way technology impacts me personally, my career trajectory, and society at large. Each topic of this course will we impact these areas of my life in some way. But I am especially interested in how the following topics will shape me, my career, and society: pornography, poverty, social media, surveillance, reality, and diversity & representation.