Essay plan

Question 1: Understanding research methods and interpreting research data

1.       Introduction – an overview of your understanding of the significance of the topic An overview about the topic is about the popular trend in Superheroes. The viewings of superheroes have 4 platforms which include Film, TV, Games and Comics, but the two main platforms are on TV and film. There are many quantitative points shown in forms of graphs and charts showing the annual breakdowns of superhero movies, superhero shows, the breakdown of audience watching these shows. The qualitative research is limited with only a two pages talking about views on superheroes and the negative effects it has on society. The biggest audience watching superhero films surprisingly is 45-54 year olds and there is a movement of women who seem to find superheroine wonder woman attire revealing and that other women are seen as helpless maidens. There is also a high use of CGI which is attracting the audience to watch superhero films in cinema.

2.       What are the Conclusions made of the article [executive summary] and what connections are there to theories (Audience) and debates (Technology positive or negative impact)? ·         Superhero movies have consistently featured in the British film institute (BFI) annual listings of the top 20 films. ·         The increase in the popularity of Superheroes in film has been matched by an increase in their popularity on television. – UGT – people are watching more superhero movies which is causing there to be more superhero movies. ·         Superhero Fatigue – there is an overdose in the release of superhero movies, which may have bored the audience. ·         The popularity of Superhero movies likely to continue. - ·         Despite the increased popularity of the superheroes in the film and TV, this does not extend to other media sectors. ·         Audience is most popular with 35- 54 yr. olds ·         Superhero genre having a negative effect on society (Boys and women). – Effects theory, watching superhero movies with non-stop violence effects boys, women watching super heroine (wonder woman) causes them to escape into a fantasy world, having a perfect body (escapism). They are also hypersexualised. ·          More usage of Netflix, Sky and E4 to access TV shows. ·         Female characters are being hypersexualised from their perfect, voluptuous figures to their sexy revealing attire.

3.       Analyse & Evaluate the research methodology used – surveys? Interviews? How suitable are the tools they chose? Are they collecting the right data to support these findings? ·         The article is mainly negative about superheroes ·         The interviews conducted have been biased and not both sided in terms of other people liking superhero films ·         The is good use of professional, academic, BARB and BFI research which shows some sort of reliability but not all the stats from the research appeared in the article. ·         There was a lack in UK statistics because they were mainly using US stats.

4.       Which Qualitative AND Quantitative data is presented in the findings and how balanced is it? To put an overview on the qualitative and quantitative information, there is more quantitative than qualitative information which shows that the information in this booklet is mainly valid, with some areas that you can question to see whether it is true or not. ·         The use of qualitative data is weak and therefore leans to the quantitative side with a small amount of opinions/views to back it up. ·         There’s uses of quotes ·

5.       How Trustworthy is the qualitative compared to the quantitative? Is it valid or reliable? Is there any bias? The qualitative information is trustworthy to an extent due to the fact that this was written 2 years ago. •              No primary •              Political bias – APA political •              Date validation Fredric Wertham – was a German-educated American psychiatrist and author who protested the purportedly harmful effects of violent imagery in mass media and comic books on the development of children.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Wertham Sharon Lamb - is an American professor in the Department of Counselling and School Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston's, College of Education and Human Development, and a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA). She also sits on the editorial board of the academic journal Sexualisation, Media, and Society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Lamb Elizabeth Behm – Morawitz - Dr. Elizabeth (Lisa) Behm-Morawitz (Ph.D., Arizona) is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication. Her research examines how mediated gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality influence stereotyping, self-concept, and health. Much of her work examines cultural representation in interactive media contexts, where the media user can create and interact with virtual representations. https://communication.missouri.edu/faculty/behm-morawitz

Assets

2. My front cover page displays an image of a person whose details has been stolen and the hacker behind the victim. My fonts, colour, graphics and logos all relate to the idea of IDENTITY THEFT and by this I will engage the reader, which is the audience of 13-16 years olds that this is a very serious case. The font size will match the type of theme, which in this case is crime and the colour will match the theme too, the colour will mainly be dark and dangerous. I am engaging the reader by the layout of the magazine and I am making it very conventional by the positioning of each text line, for example: masthead, strapline, cover line, main cover line and etc.

4. My DPS page will consist of a conventional layout and conventional text with a dominant image and other images as well. The page will have the same colours as the text from the front cover page to correlate and also it’ll have a correlation between the front cover background and the DPS background and the other backgrounds. This will engage the attention of the reader because of the layout and the design which will be appealing to the eyes, and with the help of the pictures, in addition the information will appeal in terms of having many statistics to make the reader aware of this serious issue and will impact them.

Concerning the sourcing of my graphics, icons and additional images, itll be a mixture of sourcing them from the internet but ask permission to use it and i will design my own icons and additional images.

Information used to put in the DPS: 

The crime of identity theft affects many people across the UK. Criminals impersonate their victims in order to obtain money, goods, services and other items by fraud.

The most common type of identity theft is financial identity theft where criminals impersonate an individual’s identity to obtain money or goods. Other types of this crime include business identity theft where criminals clone your organisation for their financial profit. Less commonly crooks may perpetrate criminal identity theft – adopting your identity when apprehended for a crime, medical identity theft – in order to obtain medical treatment in countries which require health insurance and finally identity cloning. This last crime is thankfully rare and entails the criminal assuming an individual’s everyday life by impersonating them.

Reassuringly, surveys show the money involved in identity theft cases in recent years as down by two-thirds as agencies develop ever more sophisticated methods to combat it and individuals become more savvy about protecting their personal information. It is estimated to cost the UK over £1 billion per year.

CIFAS the UK’s Fraud Prevention Service records an average 75,000-80,000 cases a year of identity theft and takes action to protect over 65,000 individual victims of this insidious crime.

It takes victims of identity theft an average of between 3 and 48 hours to unravel the damage caused by identity theft with the worst cases taking over 200 hours of work. It is estimated that police investigate only the worst 1% of identity theft cases.

Benefit fraud alone through identity theft costs over £800,000 per year.

Almost three-quarters of cases of worldwide reported identity theft involve stolen bank or credit cards. You can find more information about this in the ‘Personal Details’ area of About Identity Theft but in brief the best way to tackle this commonest form of theft is to report the loss of your card (or any suspicious activity on it) to the bank immediately. It will then freeze the card so that no further transactions can take place. If you report this in a timely manner then it is the bank and not yourself who should absorb the costs of the fraudulent transactions.

Identity theft is becoming an increasingly common problem in the United Kingdom, as fraudsters discover more and more ways to get hold of the information which is required to steal someone’s identity.

Identity theft rarely involves the unauthorised taking of a victim’s personal possessions, however it does involve the perpetrator of the crime taking the victim’s personal information and then using this in an unauthorised way for their own personal gain.

Any time that a criminal gets hold of a piece of your information, and then uses that information for their own personal gain, it can be considered to be identity theft. Criminals can even use seemingly harmless pieces of information, such as your date of birth, to commit identity theft. Many companies in the United Kingdom will ask you for your date of birth as part of their verification process, so getting hold of your date of birth may enable a criminal to access other information about you.

Once someone else gets hold of your personal information, they are actually able to do a large amount of different things with the information. The most common types of crime are ones which are considered to be financial fraud, such as credit card fraud, bank fraud, tax rebate fraud, benefit fraud and telecommunications fraud.

Identity thieves can also use your identity when they commit other crimes, such as entering (or exiting) a country illegally, trafficking drugs, smuggling other substances, committing cybercrimes, laundering money and much more. In fact, they can use your identity to commit almost any crime imaginable in your name.

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Copyright:

Copyright is a legal right created by the law of a country that grants the creator of an original work exclusive right for its use and distribution. This is usually only for a limited time. It’s the exclusive and assignable legal right, given to the originator for a fixed number of years, to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material.


Concerning the copyright and clearance to my assets, each of my assets will need to be cleared by the owner. I will need the permission of the owner to use any of their product so that there are no illegal actions taken. This can save money because we would avoid being sued and fined. My text information assets will need to be cleared due to copy and pasting information from a website thats not owned by me, I will need to get permission to use their professional information to copy into your  magazine to make it appealing to the audience. I will also need to get copyright for my images that I have copied from the internet, I will need to get permission from the owner and have license for using as many images as I need. Another copyright to consider are videos/music. Many issues in the past have concerned the copyright of music videos and have cost companies millions, having the clearance will enable me to use their music and videos legally.