grp5(8-11)maan cachero, em obaldo and mimi alcantara

TOO FAR
1.) the Jonas Brothers. the Jonas Brothers are found to be wearing each of their "purity rings" which they claim to represent their promise to keep themselves pure before marriage. many people reacted negatively after finding out about that. they started teasing these boys gay for actually keeping their virginity, when theyre supposed to be rockstars with machismo images. what these people dont understand is that hoes dont really make bros, there is more to than what meets what is seen oustide.
2.) Pres. candidate John Mc Cain. critics tag him as a George Bush junior and is a pro-war advocate. what they dont really look into is his real plans for the country and that he prioritizes the economy. its not because he is a Republican, doesnt mean that he will follow Bush's footsteps.
3.) Pres. candidate Barack Obama. they say he can do nothing and is a neophyte in politics. what people dont see is his capability for change! lol.

Group 5 theories of communication (Janica Dizon, Avon, Chynna Pinoy)

Natural disasters like landslides and tsunamis have taken millions of lives from all over the world. As the media shows these victims as desperate and hopeless to millions of people around the world, the audience feel pity and expressed their sympathy through donations and other outreach programs led by institutions.

Group 2 (11:30-2:30)

Stephanie Joyce Angeles

Janine Kaye Bernabe

Elie Fenwick

Nelly Mallorca

Janine Andes

Shem Andrade

Miriam College: Group 4 (pm class- 11:30-2:30)

PROPER DISTANCE: both close and far. (Kris & Mae)

TOO FAR: the unfamiliar either pushed to a point beyond strangeness, beyond humanity.
(Elle & Lea)

TOO CLOSE: media draw so close to be indistinguishable from ourselves. ( Jill & Trixy)

GROUP 4 (PM class) 11:30-2:30
MEMBERS:
-* Jill Casido
-* Trixy Galang
-* Elle Cunanan
-* Mae Dagmil
-* Kris Dungog
-* Lea Deuda

Miriam College (Sat 8:00-11:00) Group 4

Prying on Hollywood celebrities’ private lives has become somewhat of an addiction to a lot of people including people outside the U.S. With the collage of pictures, we will be able to see that the paparazzi and the public make such a big deal about even just the simple normal things they do. Because of this, they are deprived of privacy and personal space.

First and second picture: American Idol and America’s Next Top Model
Even though the shows were labeled as “American” programs, they still considered other races to participate, giving proper attention to their talent or cultural value.

Third picture: South-African children in school
The media frequently gives its attention to the sufferings of African children. However, the picture at the bottom of the collage illustrates that there are also children who are educated. The picture did not neglect that other image of African children.

Members:

Irene de Jesus

Patricia Era

Kim Esguerra

Pauline Estrada

Airam Genato

Paola Labajo

Group 2 Sat 8-11am Miriam College

In any war, in any death, there are more than one affected sides. There will never be a winner or a loser because in war we are all victims.

Proper Distance - Miriam College - Saturday 11.30-2.30 class

Theories of Communication

Group Members: Steph Jimenez
Nikki Cadorniga
Eena Samonte
Ychai Bernardo
Sel Arandela

1. Too Close

PINK (Singer) Debra Messing Britney Spears

Here are the descriptions of these pictures as written in the websites:

First Picture: “Sorry to say this but Pink looks like a 15 year old boy with tits.”
Second/Third Picture: “Debra Messing’s ugly ass and little nipples “
Fourth Picture: No description (Britney Spears)

These pictures were taken in secrecy and without the permission of the said celebrities. But still these paparazzi pictures have been posted on the internet and the said celebrities had not done anything for the photos to be private. These photos were the instances wherein the celebrities were having private matters but paparazzi publicized them. Paparazzi were very inconsiderate about the fact that they have their social life, they spend quality time with the people they want to hang out with and they go to places they want to be in. And most importantly, these “celebrities” are also human. That though they are rich, famous celebrities, they are still human, that do some things an ordinary human does.




2. Too Far

Ayman Al-Zawahiri Muhammad Atef Michael Jackson
Here are the descriptions of these pictures:
First Picture: Al-Zawahiri is a physician and the founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. This organization opposes the secular Egyptian Government and seeks its overthrow through violent means. Al-Zawahiri is believed to now serve as an advisor and doctor to Usama Bin Laden and is currently thought to be in Afghanistan.
Second Picture: Muhammad Atef has been indicted for his alleged involvement with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya.
Third Picture: This is an actual photo – not doctored – of Michael Jackson in a court appearance this week defending himself against charges that he backed out concert appearances. The judge made him take his surgical mask off.
These people are being judged by the world as if they aren’t human anymore. Those (first and second pictures) people are terrorists but by calling them such, we tend to think of them as a demon. As if there is nothing in his being human is acceptable and in capable of being liked or even loved. We have already judged their personality that in fact we only know so little of them. Same with Michael Jackson, even though we know he is talented and all that, we judge him as if he is a monkey because of the way he looks. But we don’t really know anything about him personally. But with pictures and descriptions like this, we tend to forget that THEY ARE STILL HUMAN regardless of the little negative information about them and how they appear in the outside.

3. Proper Distance

Ashlee Simpson Rachel Stevens Mandy Moore

Descriptions:

First picture: Ashlee’s 21st birthday in Vegas
Second Picture: Rachel Stevens wearing a sexy red dress
Third Picture: Mandy Moore looking Smokin' HOT

These pictures can be in line with the Proper Distance because the celebrities were aware of the photography during these times that they were being pictured. And there were no description that insults the celebrities in the website where these are posted. The descriptions even made the photos appropriate because the media used proper terms and also proper shots of the pictures.

Group 3 Miriam College(Sat.8:00-11:00am)

Members:

Evianne Anonuevo

Clarisse Ishii
Marjorie Montalban

Luisa Sanchez

Aiza Sarmiento

Edelweiss Villadelgado

MIRIAM COLLEGE

Ychai Bernardo

Eena Samonte

Iya Consengco

Camille Baltazar

Mizh Razon

MIRIAM COLLEGE:

Eena Samonte

Iya Consengco

Ychai Bernardo

Mizh Razon

Camille Baltazar

SCHOOL: Miriam College

MEMBERS:

Eena Samonte

Ychai Bernardo

Iya Consengco

Camille Baltazar

Mizh Razon

Miriam College

Proper Distance Collage

Hannah Cariño
Rollin De Leon
Jo Carol Fernandez
Phoebe Lotuaco
Zephyr Rivera
Michaela Sogueco

Celebrities are constantly stalked by papparazzis who want to catch them acting "just like any human being." Their private lives are penetrated to the deepest level, down until their most private acts such as sex tapes.

Media has shaped the audiences vision of people such as Kim Jong Il, Jack the reaper, Abu Sayaff and Hitler as heartless and down right evil. The media dictates that these people are creating havoc just for the sake of it and the hardly dwell into the possible reasons for their behavior.

Proper Distancing in the media talks about how the media shows our similarities and differences at the same time. Our group has chosen the 9/11 attack media coverage because it shows the audience something that is distant from them , which is the attack and terror but at the same time homogenizes the audiences because everyone knows the feeling this event evokes which is anger and sadness for the lost souls.

Com11 Collage Sia. Pacapac, Landoy, Gonzales, Bella

Too Close

Proper Distance

Too Far

Ateneo Com11 - B

Daet, Fabros, Huang, Geli, Lambino, Mamaril, Ravida

Too Far



Too Close


Proper Distance

Too far, too close, proper distance

Ateneo de Manila University
Com11 E
Aurelio, Camacho, Enriquez, Gabionza, Hui, Magalona, Wee

When media is able to create the illusion that the self and the other are devoid of differences, having a "too close" perspective is committed. Although it is considered a privilege to be able to peek in to the lives of different celebrities, the media's depiction of personalities such as Lindsay Lohan, Kris Aquino and Manny Pacquiao allows the self of any viewer to closely associate himself with the subject, therefore blurring identity and individuality among people.

Media falls under the perspective of "too far" when it fails to recognize the subject as an individual. The portrayal pushes the subjects to a point that they have striking and bizarre traits. Marilyn Manson, William Hung, Amy Winehouse, and anyone who has been tagged as being 'eccentric', may be viewed more as what they appear to be, rather than what they really are: human beings. As a result, they are viewed as though they are strange and out of this world.


A “proper distance” perspective is defined as having a sense of steadiness in the depiction of any media-related subject. The collage above gives a fairly balanced picture of the events that are part of man’s history. This is so because the media’s portrayal of these occurrences to many people maintains the respect for diversity and similarity of the viewer with the “other”.
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Ateneo De Manila University Comm11E

Nocom, Del rosario, Hahn, Crisostomo, Wong, Balatbat, Magahis

(right click images then view or open image to see the image in full resolution)

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PROPER DISTANCE

The concept of proper distance can be described as a seesaw. the people from the different sides of the seesaw have to be at proper distance, in proportion to weight, for it to be at balance. The proper distance of the people symbolizes the The proper distance which is a combination of the too close and too far perspective, whilst the weight can be perhaps other categories to take note of like backgrounds, ethnicity etc. In the end, proper distance gives the viewer a sense of both being too far (knowing nothing about the person or actions they are doing) and being too close (knowing exactly how it feels to be in that person's shoes or knowing what that person stands for.) In short we are being told in this concept it is needed in the news to make the news important but limit the indifference and close to the personal things but not to close that it invades privacy.

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TOO CLOSE

It is the magnifying the lives and events of different people by the media. Exposing the reality is what the media does and what they are required to do but sometimes they get “too close” and shows too much detail. Just like these pictures which show different people having their lives being exposed too much by the media. By becoming “too close” we discover the lives of these people even more but at the same time because we never knew these things about their lives which are deemed to be private; these overshadow our view of them. Thus, we see them as a whole different person.

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TOO FAR

The too far pictures represent how these events are seen only as leaves on a tree and nothing more. The distance between these events are distant too us which, in a way, limits us too fully understand what these people/ groups have gone or are going through. (These pictures consist of both the ongoing GRP-MILF memorandum within Mindanao and the Hurricane Katrina victims at New Orleans)

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Sources

http://images. search.yahoo. com/search/ images?p= emergency+ news&vc=&fr=yfp-t-104&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fp_ip=PH 
http://images. search.yahoo. com/search/ images;_ylt= A0S020pe19dIqncB CCKJzbkF? p=hurricane+ katrina&fr=yfp-t-104&ei=utf-8&x=wrt 
http://images. search.yahoo. com/search/ images;_ylt= A0S020yF19dIfQsA z.yJzbkF? p=hurricane+ ike&fr=yfp-t-104&ei=utf-8&x=wrt 
http://images. search.yahoo. com/search/ images;_ylt= A0S020mt19dINL8A gASJzbkF? p=proper+ distance&fr=yfp-t-104&ei=utf-8&x=wrt 
http://images. search.yahoo. com/search/ images;_ylt= A0S020u319dIxSsA CMeJzbkF? p=japanese+ tea+party&fr=yfp-t-104&ei=utf-8&x=wrt 
http://images. search.yahoo. com/search/ images;_ylt= A0S020vi19dIKEcA HQKJzbkF? p=weird+happenin gs&fr=yfp-t-104&ei=utf-8&x=wrt
http://images. search.yahoo. com/search/ images?p= enemies+shaking+ hands&sp=1&fr2=&y=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-104&x=wrt&js=1&ni=21&ei=UTF-8&SpellState=n- 2392066867_ q-rkrsYh65aA/ /eSkyjp69YwAAAA@@

ADMU COM11-B

Araos, Buenviaje, Choa, Ocier, Pow, Sanvictores, Tan

TOO CLOSE

The compilation of the paparazzi shots of Gretchen Barreto and KC Conception, the public funerals of FPJ and Rico Yan, and the picture of Chris Tiu illustrates how the media can portray various subjects as “too close” because it invades their privacy and disrespects their differences therefore becoming a form of symbolic violence. Media creates the feeling of almost knowing them by drawing the audience too close to be indistinguishable from them and hindering them from diversity through extensive intrusion.

TOO FAR

The representation of Madam Auring in FHM magazine, President Gloria Arroyo as “Adolf Hitler” and the popular show Fear Factor (show concept and what it makes its contestants do) is an example of how media can depict people as “too far” because media fails to regard these people they portray as human beings and pushes them too far that they seem not individuals any longer. Media is able to epitomize them as the “distant other” for people in general tend to overlook and forget that these people are far beyond what media depicts them to be for they also possess various ethics, mind-sets and emotions and have diverse functions, purposes and roles in society as well.

PROPER DISTANCE

Although we see poverty, calamities, destruction, and hunger that would stir up sympathy and engage us emotionally in these pictures; the people in these pictures still have this humane quality that can be seen in every one of us. These may seem far from what we are used to, but they give the reality of these situations. In this collage, we see a boy picking up trash, but at the same time, helping his brother. Another one is of a tricycle driver, still doing his job, despite the heavy flood. The circumstances in these pictures may depict extremities that may be alien to most of us, but seeing a father holding his son tenderly while sleeping, despite being in the streets make us think and feel something both at the same time.

Comm11-B

Batingal. De Leon. Gomez. Hermano. Lumauig. Samonte. Sy.























all pictures found on google's image search with the names of the celebrities as keywords.

Chang, Daligdig, Montemayor, Ong, Santos, Uy

Ateneo de Manila University
Com11 E

PROPER DISTANCEThis collage depict proper distance because of the way they reveal facts not known to many which are present beneath the initial message that society gets from these pictures. Among these pictures are other truths about people and the nature of human beings.

TOO FAR

This group of pictures says that people that have a hard time speaking English are seen as a laughing stock of the nation. We disregarded the fact that they are also people who makes mistakes; and it just so happens that when we commit them, we aren't covered by the media.

TOO CLOSE

Amidst various predicaments, that the world is facing, the media's effort to showcase various artists, in this case Britney Spears, undermines what is really important. A case too close for comfort, they focus and center their attention to her resulting in the audience's emotional interpretation of this so called entertainment news.