Your Media Your Future

Your Media Your Future

Our project looks to explore the big social issues of Media Bias and lack of diversity in the media. With one video focusing on each topic, we stress the importance to have authentic stories told by a diverse range of people in different roles. Likewise, with equal representation on issues like climate change, it is dangerous to present both sides of an opinion as equal when one carries a lot more evidence.

A big part of addressing issues such as media bias in climate change and media diversity was breaking down our point of view into digestible amounts. Both issues/topics are extremely dense and could be their own project entirely, so it was important for us to have firm grasp of what we were going to focus on. Rather than getting caught in climate change as a whole, we focused on how it was covered and why the current system is harmful.

Throughout the process of casting this media eye towards media diversity and climate change coverage, we tried to avoid just pointing out the problems and doing nothing. Rather, trying to propose an solution alongside it as contributes to the discussions we are trying to make common knowledge.

Our intentions were to use a number of social media platforms [Instagram and TikTok] to direct people to our main YouTube channel. While we didn’t quite get the lofty numbers in terms of views and likes, we had modest success in our timeframe however with some TikToks get over 1000 views.

Similarly with our YouTube channel, if we had more time to work on this there was a plethora of videos to make unpacking specific examples further. Why TV broadcast networks like 9,10 and 7 were so dominantly white in their on screen personalities, that alone would be staggering to dive into…

Its safe to say we have barely scratched the surfaces of the ‘meaty’ issues we have chosen. So it would be a really enjoyable challenge to take this further with more a scope to develop a larger social media following and make a meaningful difference to our people think about how media covers certain issues…

 

Included in the Vimeo below is super cut! featuring our two videos and  all the TikToks posted

Climate Change YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsOuyZCelCI&feature=youtu.be

Media Diversity YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/HbuOaL1l-bk

Tik Tok Link: https://www.tiktok.com/@yourmediayourfuture?lang=en

Instagram Link: https://www.instagram.com/yourmediayourfuture/

 

Group: Jess, Liam, Wade and Lorinda

Thanks for reading and hope you enjoy the content!!

 

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