Thursday, 2 June 2011

CSI and all that Jazz and a Thankyou

A final post, and time for something that I find hilarious.

Here is a nice flick to get the eyes watering. They hair, the glasses, the voice, the one liners!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948

For those who have taken part in this class we talked alot about how the medias portrayal of crime influences the publics opinion and belief in how things are run. It is noted that the public eye focus on this that we are not familiar with, things we fins interesting and different. Crime is one of the biggest examples and its allure is felt right across the world; from TV shows to cases evaluated and updates in your newspaper we focus on the obsurd...almost. I mean, Horatio is legit right!?

I only had to look around in my first ever lecture in criminology to realise this adverse effect. People love this stuff. Crime scenes, murder, gangs, prisons, forensics, guns, psychology, the criminal mind, everything crim. Its madness! Though with many things, what people see throughout the media often isn't a real portrayal of what actually happens in reality. Knowing a few police men, even those who go undercover, I know a lot of the time they are bored out of their brains. But, not according to the 50 varying versions of CSI!

I like to think that people are smart enough to realise a lot of what we see isn't 100% reliable, and this course has really opened my eyes, though it has convinced me to not read into things too much but and look at every angle first! So a thankyou to Alyce on widening my mind-gyre through analysing the crime-media realtionship, theorising crime and the media, looking at construction, prisons, courts, police, moral panics, diversity of victims and offenders and numerous contemporary issues!

Oh and here are a few shows that I felt were influenced by crime, just off the top of my head...

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