Journal 5

What influences your values about issues relating to your life?
Well in my life the people that are the colest to me are sort of like my idols. Especially people that are older than me. I look up to them respect them and appreciate thier understandings. I feel that they have a better experience of the world than I do and i always try to learn from them.

Do you ever compare images/values presented ny the media to those of the bible? Why?Why not?

Journal 4

How do feel the media potrays social justice issues?
I feel that most of the time the media are formal and appropriate about it and they just give the public the real facts of the story without anything being fabricated, but sometimes it just gets out of hand.

Has it been difficult to find articles on social justice issue?
Well every group has their ups and downs and yes one of our downs were trying to find articles on Youth homelessness in Australia. I think that the difficulty on finding articles depend on what topic the group is actually doing.

Do you think the media operates from a moral framework? Give evidence by using your research.
I think that the media in some situations make the right decisions most of the time about how they present their reports. One example would be the Chanel nine Current Affair report on Balinda Neil. In my opinion i think that the reporters took it a bit too far and direspected her. I admitt that she did do something really ignorent and pathetic but… there are limits.

Journal 3

Describe what is a critique:
A critiqu involves identifying critical things about an article resisting the temptation to describe rarther than analyse. Description is just stating facts – though each person will have a different idea of what facts are the most important ones. Description is alot easier that analysis, which is breaking things up into themes and putting them together.

Outline the four stages in a critique:
1. An introduction which directs the reader’s attention to the publication and you response to it.
2. A summary of the aritcle.
3. Your analysis or critical commentary on the original text.
4. Your evaluation or conclusion.

Journal 2

Name the issue:
1. Youth Homelessness in Australia.
2. Underage binge drinking.

Name one media account of the issue:
1. Youth homelessness in Australia -
One media account of this issue would be when the Oasis organization produced a documentary about the lives of Homeless youths in Sydneys West.
2. Underage Bing drinking -
One media account of this issue would be a documentary on the Current Affairs Evening programm about underage bing drinking in the Australia society.

Where did you get this media account from?
1. Youth Homelessness in Australia – The ABC television website.
2. Underage binge drinking – On the ninemsn/current akkairs website.

Is the media correct or reliable? Why?
1. Youth homelessness in Australia – Well the media actually had no influence on this particular video clip as it was a factual documentary.
2. Underage binge drinking – The media in this video were actually chasing up the Ministers in relation to underage binge drinking and it really looked like they were really tring to make some progress in the resolution of this issue.

Where else might you be able to find more information on this issue?
1. Youth homelessness in Australia: On youtube, On the Australian Government website, The salvation army Youth care website.
2. Underage Binge Drinking: On youtube and Google videos, The Australian Government Website.

Reflective Journal 1

1. Describe two things that you have learnt during this lesson?
I have learnt the breif outline of our project by reading the entry. We have got to know our groups and we filled out our group contract and allocations.

2. Identify 2 areas that you want to focus on during this project that you think need a greater improvement from the last project.
Well in this project i want to reaaly plan things out alot better so that i know what i have to hand in and i know when to hand it in. And another aspect is groupwork which i really want to improve in this time round.

3. Well one could be reffering back to contracts or meeting minutes and another could be trying to talk it over or ask the teacher for advise.