I Need Feminism

         Wednesday, 26 March 2014, we had attended a talk and launch with title "I Need Feminism", which organized by a group of students who come from Department of Communication, from 12pm-2pm, at Lower Foyer, Main Block.

This campaign "I Need Feminism" had a talk regarding the topic of empowering young women through fashion and the importance of feminism in this day and age. Besides, it is worth that they had invited two speakers to attend which are Ms. Wei San from the All Women's Action Society (AWAM), and Ms. Anna Nishaburi from ZALORA to share some information about Feminism.

One of the fact question asked by AWAM that I could remember and agree is Feminism is about challenging systemic inequalities, men are not the enemy, Patriarchy is. Sometimes, many men hear the word "feminist", they feel very disgusted, they think that the group of feminist women are just because they can not find a man so that they try to attack men. In addition, there is also another argument, which is due to human instill down the old concept from the past, so now people will still consider the social status of men are higher than women. According to online data, it shows that only 20% of men admit to feminists, 25% of people believe that "feminism" is an insult to this title. 

In fact, feminism has profoundly changed the lives of women and men. Feminism had made ​​a lot of important implications in the western countries, including women the right to vote; relatively equal wages; the emergence of proposed initiative of divorce and the "no-fault divorce", the rights of safe abortion and ligation, the right to get university education and so on. 

For me, feminism is necessary to fight for more power because their main purpose is just to qualify for gender equality in the whole world. While the term "Feminism" was not born in Asia, the concept itself, that women have equal rights, and that they have to fight inequality, that is a part of their own heritage.

Tutorial Exercise 6

Title: Running Man

Topic: It is a South Korean reality-variety show. It is a new-genre of variety shows focused on in an urban environment. The emcees and guests will complete missions in a landmark to win the competition. 

Objective: The objective of Running Man is similar to its namesake - people run around and race, trying to complete tasks to gain special items and/or points for their team. The lose team will suffers a penalty and is punished. 

Genres: Entertainment, Lifestyle & Variety

Rating: PG-13

Target audience: Covering a wide-range of audience which distributed worldwide.

Running time: One and half hour

Characters: The current emcees of Running Man are Yoo Jae-suk, Ji Suk-jin, Kim Jong-kook, Haha, Lee Kwang-soo, Song Ji-hyo, and Gary. And also different celebrities will be invited in each episode.

Country: Korea

Tutorial Exercise 5

New Headline: 

Big Opportunity of Hamilton to win Formula One Malaysian Grand Prix

Tutorial Exercise 4

         Wednesday, 26 February 2014, Department of Communication had invited a special guest, Datuk Kadir Jasin, who presented us a talk with title "Brickbats And Bravura of Modern Day Journalists", from 12pm - 2pm at Theatrette, Main Block. The main content of this talk was related to the impact of social media.

In this age of advanced technology, social media plays a very important role in a variety of fields. Social media is a kind of technology and websites that people use to communicate, share ideas, views and experiences with each other. Social media can be expressed in many different forms, such as text, images, music, video and more. Social media become the most popular and most time-consuming online activities. The rise of social media greatly changed the life of the people, which has led us into an era of advanced social networking.

First of all, the main advantage of social media is the interaction between people. Through the network to communicate can effectively reach a result on a topic and the cost is relatively lower than other media. The dissemination of information from social media has become a major task that people browse the Internet, which is not only allowing people more easily get the latest information, but also to attract the traditional media to follow up on social media. 

As we spend a lot of time on social media, which is obviously a great opportunity for those companies will begin the implementation of network advertising. We are accustomed to using social networking sites to access information about products and services, so that it will not only narrow the distance between the companies and us, but also provide an opportunity for companies to engage with their target market closely and make a targeted advertising and marketing campaigns. For the major social networking sites, their main purpose is to promote contacts and recreational users.

In conclusion, social media has had a huge influence on the different aspects. Social media has changing our social life greatly. The use of social media to communicate with others however can bring a lot of benefits for both sides. Therefore, I really think that social media is a very important invention for our modern world nowadays.

*Social Media Networking