The reading by Albury, Kath and Kate Crawford examines Megan’s Story, a campaign ad, and questions the way different states handle incidents of sexting as child pornography. Megan’s Story is a short video that aims to inform people of the consequences of sexting. Megan’s Story was created by ThinkUKnowAustralia and shows a girl leaving a bathroom and smiling to herself as she walks to class. In class she hears a mobile phone notification go off and following this, several other mobile phone notifications are heard as the image is spread around. Her classmates start staring at her and giving her looks, and her teacher also received the image. Megan runs out of the room and a voice over says ‘Think you know what happens to your images? Who will …show more content…
see them? How they will affect you? Think again.’ This ad campaign only shows the effect on the person who sends out the image. It shows the person being humiliated but does not demonstrate the legal consequences to the people who received and forwarded the text. Furthermore no information is given that shows that Australia views sexual images of people under the age of 18 as child pornography and who ever has possession of the images can be charged. The video focuses on the effect on the victim and their vulnerability.
It shows that the person who sends the images out are responsible for their actions and should ‘think again’ before participating in any sort of those behaviours. It does not take any other factors into account such as the law and the people involved in further distributing the image (Albury et al 2012). It also shows the idea that young women in particular are at risk of sexual violence and in no way emphasises the idea that they should keep a reputation. The video could have shown the legal consequences for the classmates and teacher for distributing the image and having possession of …show more content…
it. The way different states deal with sexting has also become a concern. Every state deals with the situation in different ways, however most states state any images of persons under the age of 18 is deemed as child pornography and children under the age of 18 are not allowed to appear in sexual images. Many people question if sexting can be defined as ‘child pornography’ and if it is appropriate to charge the victim and people involved. Young people send out images to their partners in a playful manner with no harm intended (Albury et al 2012). Charging young people with child pornography can be damaging to their image and reputation. Additionally, young people sexting their partners has no harm compared to a child molester. Thus, the way sexting is portrayed should be changed. The victim should not only be informed of the shame they will face but other aspects such as legal consequences for people involved should also be promoted. Moreover, the way states handle people involved with sexting should be reviewed. It is seen as a way of flirting for many young people and should not have harsh punishments unless it has done harm. Critical Reflection: This week’s theme focused on the concept of sexting and the concerns when young people are involved.
Sexting is defined as the sending of sexually explicit photos, images, text messages, or e-mails by using a cell phone or other mobile device [1]. It is common for people to send out or receive explicit images, especially in young teenagers. When young people share these photos they are often unaware of the legal implications that go with it. Young people are oblivious that serious legal action could be taken, as they are underage. It not only affects the person that sends it out, but also everyone who receives the image. As discussed in the lecture, the law regarding sexting varies in each state, however explicit images of young people could be seen as child pornography and the people involved could possibly be
charged. Megan’s story, a media response to sexting, is an example of how humiliating sexting could be for the victim. Megan send out a private photo of herself and the image was shared around with all her classmates and also ended up getting send to her teacher. Her classmates teased her about it and she was put in a vulnerable position. These incidents often occur in high schools and can have a huge impact on the individual and their friends. Due to this there has been a large concern about young people sexting, especially young women. Their reputation is ridiculed and they can sometimes be bullied. Sexual communication between young people is a common practice. Many adults believe it is due to the advancement of technology that young people are more exposed to sexualised ideas. Social media has played a major role in this. The main way for young people to communicate and interact with each other is through social media and texting as shown in other lectures. As shown in the week 11 lecture, social networks are beneficial in order to maintain connected and maintain a social capital, however it has its consequences such as issues of privacy. Everything that an individual posts or sends another person can be hacked and shared around, thus sending private photos to another person can easily be spread around. Sexting has revealed that society has become sexist and sexualised. Females in particular are expected to act and behave in certain ways. They are pressured to be feminine where as men are idealised to have certain masculinity characteristics. Due to social media, particular ways of behaving such sexting is seen as a normal part of society. As stated before girls are often humiliated and felt as they are put at fault for their actions. Stereotypes are created and messages are put out for girls to protect their innocent bodies.
Jane the virgin is a show about a woman who had her life planned out the way she wanted until it made a spiraling turn due to unfortunate events. When Jane was a young girl, she had made a promise to her grandma that she would save her virginity until marriage. Unfortunately, during a doctor's check up she was artificially inseminated. After she agreed to keep the baby her relationship with her finance when down the hill. Keeping the baby also caused her school work to be a little harder for her. An examination of Jane the virgin will demonstrate the concepts of process of listening, the benefits of power and being in denial.
According to the FBI, more than 75 percent of all murder victims are women, and more than 50 percent of the women are between the ages of 14 and 29 years old. A part of that statistic is Kitty Genovese,a murder victim who is the focus of an editorial, “The Dying Girl that No One Helped,” written by Loudon Wainwright. Kitty was a 28 year old woman who was brutally stabbed to death while on her way home from work. The woman, named Kitty Genovese, lived in a pleasant, welcoming, residential area, in New York. There was at least 38 witnesses that came forward, and they all heard her cries for help, but no one came to her aid. Wainwright effectively demonstrates how society has started turning a “blind-eye” toward problems that can endanger someone's
Samir Boussarhane During the early 20th century in the U.S, most children of the lower and middle class were workers. These children worked long, dangerous shifts that even an adult would find tiresome. On July 22, 1905, at a convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia, Florence Kelley gave a famous speech regarding the extraneous child labor of the time. Kelley’s argument was to add laws to help the workers or abolish the practice completely.
“I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” (Zusak 528) Words and the power they possess is a common theme that is heavily mentioned throughout the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Throughout this book, rhetoric affects multiple characters in both positive and negative ways. There are instances in this book in which one can see how words have the ability to tear people down, educate and inform, and to inspire individuals to follow their dreams.
During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s the fight for equal and just treatment for both women and children was one of the most historically prominent movements in America. Courageous women everywhere fought, protested and petitioned with the hope that they would achieve equal rights and better treatment for all, especially children. One of these women is known as Florence Kelley. On July 22, 1905, Kelley made her mark on the nation when she delivered a speech before the National American Woman Suffrage Association, raising awareness of the cruel truth of the severity behind child labor through the use of repetition, imagery and oxymorons.
Florence Kelley was a social and political reformer that fought for woman’s suffrage and child labor laws. Her speech to the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association initiated a call to action for the reform of child labor laws. She explains how young children worked long and exhausting hours during the night and how despicable these work conditions were. Kelley’s use of ethos, logos, pathos, and repetition helps her establish her argument for the reform of the child labor laws.
I chose this word because the tone of the first chapter seems rather dark. We hear stories of the hopes with which the Puritans arrived in the new world; however, these hopes quickly turned dark because the Purtains found that the first buildings they needed to create were a prison, which alludes to the sins they committed; and a cemetery, which contradicts the new life they hoped to create for themselves.
In the passage the author addresses who Ellen Terry is. Not just an actress, but a writer, and a painter. Ellen Terry was remembered as Ellen Terry, not for her roles in plays, pieces of writing, or paintings. Throughout the essay the author portrays Ellen Terry in all aspects of her life as an extraordinary person by using rhetorical techniques such as tone, rhetorical question, and comparison.
It is safe to say that the box next to the “boring, monotone, never-ending lecture” has been checked off more than once. Without the use of rhetorical strategies, the world would be left with nothing but boring, uniform literature. This would leave readers feeling the same way one does after a bad lecture. Rhetorical devices not only open one’s imagination but also allows a reader to dig deep into a piece and come out with a better understanding of the author’s intentions. Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Wife’s Story” is about a family that is going through a tough spot. However, though diction, imagery, pathos, and foreshadowing Guin reveals a deep truth about this family that the reader does not see coming.
After the 2010 Census results Arizona’ ninth congressional district was created, having its first representative in the 113th Congress Kyrsten Sinema, a democratic leader. In 2014 elections, House Representative Sinema was seeking re-election against her Republican opponent Wendy Rogers, an air force veteran and small business owner. Incumbent Kyrsten Sinema focuses her primary policies of concern on “women’s issues” and her democratic political ideology and her opponent Wendy Rogers based her issues on republican political “masculine issues”. The candidate Wendy Rogers had two major faux pas that
To furthermore express the tone that was developed, Lois Lowry used punctuation. After Jonas’s father was finished with the baby and it was dead, Jonas’s only thoughts were, “He killed it! My father killed it!” (141). By writing the words, “He killed it! My father killed it!” in italics, the author focuses Jonas’s perception on his father as a murderer once he realized that his father had killed the baby, not send it “elsewhere.” The Committee brainwashed citizens into thinking that when one was “released,” it meant that they were going “elsewhere.” Not only was this deceiving, but if the community found out about this, they would question their safety and The Committee; the citizens would view The Committee as a threat and an enemy. When
The internet provides ground for individuals to create, access, and share child sexual abuse images world wide at the click of abutton. Child pornography images are readily available through virtually every Internet technology including website, email, instant messaging.
In today’s American society, almost everyone, even children as young as six, owns a cell phone with a camera. Although convenient, camera phones also open the door to massive problems concerning child pornography that stem from sexting, or sending nude or lascivious photos. According to a 2010 Federal Bureau of Investigation survey1 of 4,400 middle and high school students, “approximately eight percent of students reported that they had sent a sext of themselves to others while thirteen percent said they had received a sext.” The main problem with sexting, aside from being child pornography if it is a picture of minors, is the ease of dissemination of the sext to other contacts or even the Internet. The United States alone has seen several students commit suicide after a sext intended for one person’s eyes went viral or was sent to the entire high school.
Sexting can be referred to as sexual content communicated through text messages, smart phones, or visual and web 2.0 activities such as social networking sites. It has been defined as the ‘exchange of sexual messages or images’ (Livingstone et al., 2011) and ‘the creating, sharing and forwarding of sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images’ (Lenhart, 2009) through mobile phones and/or the internet. There are many factors associated with sexting. This includes that fact that it is coercive, this means that sexting does not refer to a single activity but rather to a range of activities which may be motivated by sexual pleasure but are often linked to harassment, bullying and even violence. (Ringrose, Gill, Livingstone and Harvey, 2012, pp 7).
In recent years, pornography has established itself as perhaps the most controversial topic arising out of the use of the Internet. The easy availability of this type of sexually explicit material has caused a panic among government officials, family groups, religious groups and law enforcement bodies and this panic has been perpetuated in the media.