Week 1

Week 1 Task
# Search the meaning of below listed items. Must listed down the references and the date data retrieved from sources.

Cross-Disciplinary

- refers to knowledge that explains aspects of one discipline in terms of another. The common example of   cross-disciplinary approaches are studies of the physics of music or politics of literature.
 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciplinary#Cross-disciplinary) (31.10.12)


Inter-Disciplinary

- refers to of relating to, or involving two or more academic disciplines that are usually considered distinct.
 (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/interdisciplinary) (31.10.12)

Trans-Disciplinary

- refers to connoting a research strategy that crosses many disciplinary boundaries to create holistic approach. It applies to research efforts focused on problems that cross the boundaries of two or more disciplines, such as research on effective information systems for biomedical research and also can refer to concepts or methods that were originally developed by one discipline but now are used by several others such as ethnography, a field researcg method originally develop in anthropology.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdisciplinarity) (31.10.12)

Qualitative research

- refers to a method of inquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, traditionally in the social sciences, but also in market research and further contexts. Qualitative researchers aim to gather an in-depth understanding of human behaviour and the reasons that govern such behaviour. The qualitative method investigates the why and how of decision making,  not just what,where,when and Hence, smaller but focused samples are more often needed than larger samples.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research) (31.10.12)

Etnographic studies research

- The investigation of a culture through an in-depth study of the members of the culture ; it involves the sytematic collection, description, and analysis of data fro development of theories of cultural behaviour.
(http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/ethnographic+research) (31.10.12)


Week 1 entry
#Write an essay about 400 words describing your thoughts on media use. Can include photograph if you want.

Nowadays, media had played such an important roles in our life like never before. Media had existed from a very long time ago, but the media before is very different with recent media. Ages ago, people distinguished media as a form of art, usually described as paintings, sculptures and photographs. And for today's generation, media was described and been delivered in all type of form such as video, audio, music, and et cetera.

The importance of the existence of the media had become crucial due to it had already become part of our lives especially for the Y and Z generation. The fast and rapid evolvement of all the media totally changed the way we live and one of the clear effect that we can see is how people nowadays communicate with each other.

For example, people from the old days usually uses pigeons or people (postman) to send letters, messages to each another. As time pass by, it evolves from using pigeons to telegram and morse code due to the existence and creation of new technologies. But the development did not stop there, lots of new type and form of media are created with the help of the newfound and developed technologies that are evolving from time to time.

And from telegram, morse code, the way of communication undergo a massive change when internet was invented. This is because, the previous use of media for communication only allows one or two-way(one,two people) interaction and usually only occurs within a certain area. The invention of internet connects people from all over the world thus making the far away distance, or the people in different countries felt close with each other. Example for these recent media of communication is the invention of facebook. With facebook, the people can create their profile , be friends, find friends from all over the world. In short, this is one of the advantages when media evolved along with the technologies. But, as the popular phrases sound, "everything had its own pros and cons" , so when this kind of situation looks and seems advantagious, there's also had it sides effect.

One of the side effects were since these people can communicate through phones,computer, laptops, they relied on the internet too much until they've became dependent on it. This situation can be explained with the situation example where two teenagers who sat beside each other who more comfortable using  text or use chatbox to talk to between them rather than talking face to face. They take the media for granted and gradually diminishing the essence of how the traditional and more appropiate communication between people should be.

-total of 441 words-

Azura Binti Abd.Mokmin

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Media Anthropology (week 1 entry) (31.10.12)