Media Culture

So why are people caution and against the act of cultural appropriation?  A few post that I have mention it is about the claim, of using someone's culture. As a designer/artist we understand the feeling of your artwork is being taken or used by someone else to make money. That is why we have copyrights to help protecting our work, and these is the same problem with cultural appropriation but the minority groups does't have anything to protect them. Historically, there are cases where western music appropriate others culture's musical tone. Especially in the case of white musicians adopting black music styles. This is a major issue because black artists who originally wrote and produced the musical tone were never given the credit they deserved . According to one of my research, whites are adopting black musical forms (African-American cultures) and reshaping it unwillingly, simply given a rise to a “legitimate transformation”. Hoping the new forms emerge reestablishin...

Let us look into Cultural Appropriation vs Cultural Exchange, there are times that many of us misunderstood about the differences about the meaning of "exchange". Cultural appropriation are done by many, but understood by a few.  The key understanding of cultural exchange, is where one culture try to learn another culture. They exchange information between each other to learn more about them.  So what is culture ? Define by E dward Burnett Tylor "Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." Cultural exchange as a good way, where we can understand about those which come from different places, living style and the histories behind. Approach it by study its meaning, try to experience it by joining events  spreading of culture from one civilization to another.  It is...

Let's  start by understanding what is the meaning of Cultural Appropriation Starting with the basic,  t he act of cultural appropriation usually carries racial, colonial and socioeconomic implications.  C ultural appropriation define by involves of using one cultural's elements by others which is does not belong to them.It is often use without any real understanding of the original culture or the meanings behind these activities. The cultural artifacts are used and covered into "meaningless" pop-culture or turn its meaning into something completely different it originally have. (Bruce & Pratima, 1997) Western pop music, we often seen some of the music videos or tones used referring to appropriation. We can see that some western pop music are using costume or accessories to help with the whole concept of the music or album. The combination of other chorus and musical instrument.  Where they get ideas or inspiration from other's culture, as ...

3) Examine the issue of cultural appropriation within a domain of beauty, fashion or music industry. Why are some communities cautious of, or against this practice? Nowadays, the debate of cultural appropriation is not hard to find. We often see celebrities used others culture to perform or as their inspiration of making their songs. Making the other people's culture into their main theme to preform a show. It is not only seen in music and also fashion, beauty and even animation. It is true that now people want to break away from traditional to a new creative way of showing it. But is it true that this can be used freely? Why are some people refusing and against this act? It is because they steal something away that something that is precious away from them, or is it because this is an act of no respect. They think it will cause the misunderstand to their culture, turning the meaning of their culture into something else. If we turn the other way around, this could be a breaking...

The following are topics that were given: 1. Critically review a local art/ design exhibition in-depth. Discuss it in terms of its curatorial goals and exhibition design with related research.  2. Compare and contrast the relationship of celebrities with their fans in two different creative communities. Which one is relatively more healthy in their connections? 3. Examine the issue of cultural appropriation within a domain of beauty, fashion or music industry. Why are some communities cautious of, or against this practice? 4. What are some issues and best practices for design in multilingual communities? Write from the perspective of either a graphic designer or interactive designer. 5. Explore a variety of media is used within the context of branding or transmedia storytelling. Does variety dilute the effectiveness of an advertising campaign or story?     Question 3 thoughts: Cultural appropriation, it is where using other countries or people's culture wit...