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Hey all, it seems that there are several requests for the lecture to be posted since I was flying through the slides at a crazily unreasonable speed, LOL. Thank you all for all of your support on the day and also throughout this semester—seriously, this would not have been possible without all of you.
I have annotated some of the key slides so that you could understand my rationale for some of the slides as well as in using some of the quotes I decided to use. I have also included two slides that I asked Keynote to skip while deleting some of the more pointless slides alongside all the media, since they were tools to keep you guys awake in lecture (^__^).
Finally, I want to mention that the readings for white-collar crime are supplementary readings, so if you want to find out more, do the readings. My aim in the lecture was to disspell myths about white-collar crime and introduce it as an object of study, as well as how it relates to the media as much as possible (since this is a ‘crime and media’ course).
In Reading 1, Passas and Goodwin provide an overview of how our neoliberal culture propagates white-collar crime in much more detail by invoking the economic concept of externalities (despite their note that the piece is not about white-collar crime in the beginning, they are talking about it as you will note the chapter’s title, “A Crime by Any Other Name”… Passas is a rather sarcastic bloke, LOL. (^__^)).
In Reading 2, Schlosser shows you the true cost of fast food and how the actions, however criminal, are not really seen as criminal at all. There is blood and gore in true gruesome fashion—decapitations, crushing of heads (I’ve had the misfortune to see images of this in my research and had nightmares for three months straight… not funny), and even mincing of whole human bodies—all classified as accidents and all in the pursuit of cheap and fast food. Oops, I did it again, yes? If you read it, it’ll show you the concepts from readings and lecture in action. By the way, if you are interested, the reading is an extract from the book, Fast Food Nation—a very good book on the abuses of the fast food industry. (^__^)
Alright then, I think that’s enough talk, click the link below to download the lecture in PDF format.
Hey all, this post was written to address two issues,
1) It has been brought to our attention that the course readings were temporarily out of stock at the HKUSU Photocopying Centre in Chong Yuet Ming Amenities Centre. I do apologise for any distress and difficulties this may have caused, but please be assured that this problem has been resolved and that the course pack will be available again today (Thursday, 5th February). You will notice that the new pack will have some notes scribbled on the first few readings—forgive me for this as I was unable to find a correction pen to wipe them out in my rush to resolve this problem. Again, please accept my apologies for this oversight.
2) Those who have sat to ponder the tasks of the tutorial may also have noticed that the requirements for Week 2 and Week 3 sound extremely similar. The difference is simply that in Week 2, you will be working primarily within your groups so that you will have more time to get to know the members in your team as well as to coordinate and allocate responsibilities for the rest of the semester. In some ways, you could conceive of Week 2 as still part of the orientation period; but as we move on to Week 3, things will begin to get a little more “serious” as discussions occur between groups and each group take turns to discuss their preliminary observations on their topic of interest. In essence, Week 3 will set the tone for the rest of the tutorials this semester.
Hopefully, that helps to clear up the main differences between the two weeks as well as set aside questions pertaining to the course reading pack. Right then, cheerio friends!
Hello friends, it is I once more!
Guest lecturer, Dr Fu King Wa, has requested that all students read the following texts in preparation for next week’s lecture. This way, you could all contribute and generate discussion in class. Here are three things you will need to do before next week’s lecture:
i) Read the webpage “Suicidal Behaviour and the Media: Findings from a systematic review of the research literature ” (from UK based The MediaWise Trust) http://www.mediawise.org.uk/display_page.php?id=373
ii) Read Hong Kong Journalists Association Guidelines on Coverage of Suicides http://www.hkja.org.hk/portal/Site.aspx?id=A1-458&lang=en-US
iii) Read newspaper everyday (Oriental, Apple, Ming Pao or/and SCMP) and pick up some suicide stories. Try to identify the characteristics of these stories
For the newspaper segment, don’t forget Allison’s guide to searching for newspaper sources via WiseNews. Right, I should get going—check back later as we will be uploading the tutorial outline before the day is through.
SOCI0067 Crime and the Media 