Week8

NETWORK FICTIONS, FANDOMS, CELEBRITY AND LAWS.
 Week8's topic reminds me of one lecture from Popular culture i did last year. Mark Finn gave a lecture about Pornography and censorship in popular culture. Pornography is very much a perfect example of how porn and porn stars ( can i call them celebrity?) and the laws are not sticking together at all and it is very much a controversial topic. The rapid expand of pornography and this industry's profits over the years are unbelievable. People are making hundreds of thousands dollars by making porn. I do not really know how the industry can work this well but it seems to me that porn movies and this whole thing have no laws and limitation. No one can actually measure the quantity of these movies is every year and who make them and how they sell them. There are so much pornography out there on the internet but we cannot control ,and many issues with porn such as violence, the adult content ect...seem never to be under control. What laws and how are we going to control over them in this "peer to peer technologies culture"? The internet has been giving us so much freedom to too much freedom! I mean...how the heck could we control zillions of anonymous people going online and offline with zillions fake accounts on the internet, doing pretty much whatever the heck they want? There might be a solution but it is the matter of time?
I remember that one classmate told us about her writing job was to edit other people's works to be hers~ gossip online magazine kind of thing. I mean, we- media students who are gonna be media scholars should be aware of how we change the content of the media. I mean we are educated and trained to know this network cultures, shall we act as deliverers of pure and clear information to the readers as we are supposed to do? People nowadays jump in the media so quickly and wrong that we cannot recognize the laws of media anymore; especially, the online media. The laws are there, codes of ethics are there, even recently i saw ads about rules of censorship and codes of ethics on channel 7 or 9 and i just think wao...this is great...but actually...who cares?  We just break the rules so easily and so often and we become so ignorant.