Week 7

Framing

This week's lecture was about framing, hacking and vectors.

However, i would like to focus more on the idea of framing  and how it is broadly used in media.

Starting with framing. Framing in my opinion is like the way you see things. almost like a concept of biasedness ( if thats a word). We see stuff in the way we want. It can depend on our education, family values, morality, religion or even the society you live in. And that all create our view on things, however at the same time it makes us biased. Everyone is biased because we all have very personal view and opinion.

And it is similar to media. The content of it depends on the people who own it. Thats why i dont think documentary, or even news show a full story, it always has some people standing besides it that want to show a specific view point, and its not being true for both sides at the same time.

Example about the biased news could be the recent political event. As some of you might know Ukraine is going throught a revolution, where politicians dont do anything , and where their own army is shooting their own people. since i can understand Ukranian and Russian and English i watch 3 sides of the news, the ones that America shows, Russia and Ukraine. Maybe im being biased but Russian news showing footage that others dont show... well US isnt showing them , and Ukranian news ( eg with the army shooting their own ppl) saying that army is shooting terrorists , not civil people. And thats how framing works. It shows you only what someone wants you to see.