Journal: Children’s animation and Orientalist stereotypes

Refer to Edward Said, the writer of "Orientalism: Western conceptions of the Orient 1978", Orientalism is the way that people in the Western cultures picture and explain the differences between themselves and people of Eastern cultures. They always think that Eastern people are not modern, backward, countryside, or even brutal. In the book, Edward says that "I shall be calling Orientalism, a way of coming...

Critical Reflection journal 2

Japanese comics vs. Hong Kong Comics Japan has a very well known image in the creative media industry, especially in anime and comic books. Their anime and comics are so famous around the world. And in this journal, I would like to compare Japanese comics to Hong Kong comics.   Japanese comics, also called manga, have a very...

Week 4: downloading other’s hard work for free?

The Internet is a very convenient tool for us people. It let us share information with each other. Once you post something online, people can see it. And there are a lot of things for us to use. But after we saw that piece of information, people will want to own it. From downloading a picture,...

Week 3: Where is the time!

After the internet network system changes from using centralized system to equal distributed system, people's whole lifestyle changes. The entire world changes. From the very beginning, when there is only centralized system, not many people can assess to the knowledge online. So most of the workers work with their physical labour. And they have a...

Critical Reflection journal 1

Talent Show: YES! You pass https://media.giphy.com/media/l4FGxWTEdDtxu9FK0/giphy.gif In these years, more and more reality shows got published on television. There are so many types of reality shows and one of them is talent shows. Talent shows are the shows that are like competitions. Participants perform talents like singing, dancing, magic and acrobatics. And this kind of shows...

Week 2: From a Huge Machine to a Piece of Cake

The network is a very useful tool to get help from our daily life. Most of the time when we have some question that is related to our normal living, we will search it on the internet and hope to find an answer or a resolution. There is so many information on the internet that...

Week 1: Spiderweb-like Map

In these days when we talk about the Internet, it is always talking about the internet that helps us talk to each other. Before the internet, it takes a very long period of time to pass a message to someone who is from very far away. After the internet exists and become popular, it cut...