Thursday, March 24, 2016

POST 14: Individual Documents on 'Spaces & Exchanges' Notion

SPACES & EXCHANGES - Written work on two individual documents
Exchanges in  Real Spaces & Virtual Spaces


Real Spaces


East is East , is a British comedy-drama film written by Ayub Khan-Din in 1999.                                                                                                 
This movie tells the story of Jahangir Khan, he was born in Pakistan and he had got married for the first time there. When he immigrated to Britain, he met Ella, a Caucasian , he fell in love and married her and became the father of six sons and a daughter. The problem is that the father wanted all of children to follow Islam tradition. He wanted to married his sons so he made forced marriage. The first one didn’t work, the first soon escaped from the ceremony because he was gay. The others will try to escape from the traditionalism of their father and at the same time , they will protect their mother because of the father’s violence.

In my opinion , this movie illustrate the notion spaces and exchanges in real spaces as far as he concerned the immigration of Pakistanis to Britain and how they deal with the new culture (western culture) even though they don’t want to abandon their own culture (eastern culture). So how can we deal with the mix of culture between third world and first world? Overlap both culture , western and eastern it’s possible but some difficulties may find . (214 words)

Virtual Spaces



How Islamic State uses social media to attract female recruits | Channel 4 News ( 22 february 2015)
In this report , channel 4 news explain how Islamic states uses social medias (twitter for example) to attract female . The videos starts with a pink logo that is suppose to be female friendly , in the background of the video , we see as Islamic propaganda video showing us this women with arms . This women aimed at recruiting other women 550 have heeded the call to travel to Syria , we know for sure  that around 60 of them were from UK . There is no question that for many IS is winning the propaganda war and they are really successful because of internet and social networking spaces for their own propaganda. It’s obvious that media seems to have played a central in recruiting the 3 girls from Bethnal green (like the video explain) . The social networks show also how the girls turn to. It’s important to create a better control of social networking and to delete the propaganda’s videos because this make a fake idea for women , in my opinion it’s important also for medias like TV  to not use the propaganda video in the news because it’s also dangerous for viewers.

I think we can relate this document with spaces and exchanges because it’s talk about how terrorism uses virtual spaces (thanks to the deep web) and new technologies to attract people because nowadays everybody expose his life on the net and nobody is really save although when you think you are alone in front of your computer at home . (258 words )








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