Hello fellas! First of all, sorry because I was so busy until I forgot to do the blog post…… Anyway by the time you see it it was done so don’t care too much about such small things okay~
Again it is sharing time, so that the blog post is more interesting, and to prevent me from sleeping because of boredom. There is a question that I have been thinking for a long time, is laziness really that bad? Yeah we get lazy most of the time, at least I was like that, but laziness don’t make me to avoid my work most of the time, instead it helps me to find the easiest way to do the work. It makes sense right as people are actually motivated by laziness to become more creative and innovative sometimes. Jack Ma said before that he always get lazy workers to do the complicated works because they are the ones who find the simplest way to solve it. All roads lead to Rome, although we are lazy, it doesn’t mean that we can’t get our jobs done in a perfect way. I’m not promoting negative laziness that ignores every work, but positive laziness makes us better sometimes~ So, be a lazy person starting from today.
Okay back to the blog post. Today this blog post will discuss about the mediated public sphere and the subvertisement my group did last week. Public sphere is a concept developed by Jurgen Habermas in the 18th century, where individuals have the chance to talk and give opinions on societal issues without being controlled by the government. As for the mediated public sphere, it shares the similar concept with public sphere, but the debate and discussion are done on media platform. It was once a hilarious concept in the past due to many factors such as insufficient of money and place for the discussion, but it is already a common phenomena nowadays because of the advance of technology and information sharing system.
There are indeed some interesting topics discussed on those platforms. I give an example from Malaysia, the ‘Seni Khat’ issue, which is also known as the Jawi issue in here. The Ministry of Education Malaysia claims that the Seni Khat, which is the Jawi calligraphy, should be included in Malay textbook starting from primary four. The reason given by them is that the mother language of Malaysia, Malay, use the Jawi type of writing in the past instead of the Rumi type that we used today, so learning Jawi is necessary in order to increase the interest when learning Malay. This caused a big rebound from the society as they think it is unnecessary and useless to their children’s education and could be another burden for them. A lot of debate were raised due to this issue and people even start losing confidence to the government that they choose. The education system in Malaysia is always being questioned and criticised by the society, and this issue enhance this phenomena. It is a quite sensitive issue so I’ll end it here.
For the subvertisement last week, the topic is what is our interpretation of the word feminism. For my team, we all agree with that feminism is about gender equality. Most of people will think that men is ok with the body hair, but women with body hair will be considered as disgusting. With this concept, we chose dDove as the brand that we subvertised. Dove, in many ways that we actually did not realised, promotes that females should be clean and hairless in order to be beautiful. Many advertisement and shaving products were came out from the company, emphasising this unfair concept. When men can feel free to show their body hair without being judged, why women with body hair has to be classified as disgusting and unpleasant? Beauty is more to what you are in the inside that what you look from the outside, so we decide to make a poster related to this.
In our poster, we wanted to let the society knows that you can be beautiful without changing yourself to fit in the society. Beauty is not about how you meet the other’s definition of beauty, it is about how you live your live without being changed by the others perspective.
So that’s all for my blog post today, thank you for your reading and do drop a like down below if you like my post~
References
Soules, M. (2019). Jurgen Habermas and The Public Sphere. Retrieved from https://www.media-studies.ca/articles/habermas.htm
Malaymail. (2019). Maszlee: Introduction of other calligraphy styles in Malaysian school will be considered. Retrieved from https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2019/08/04/maszlee-introduction-of-other-calligraphy-styles-in-malaysian-schools-will/1777559
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