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OFcom is a TV regulator established in the UK. It's there job is to regulate the TV and radio sectors, fixed line telecoms, mobiles, postal services, plus the airwaves over which wireless devices operate meaning their job is really wide range. 
Their key role is to stop UK viewer from being scammed or being taking advantages off by television companies in the UK. While regulating code of conduct for the communications services to follow. Their roles is to keeps UK audiences safe and protected from offensive material, radio services are also regulated by them.
The creation of Ofcom was announced in the Queen's Speech to the UK parliament in June 2001. However the company was finally founded in December 29th 2003 making them a unique and new organisation that gives the audiences powers to control, what media content is approvable.
Ofcom 10 code of conduct
- Practice to follow 8.12 Telephone calls It is acceptable to record telephone calls for note taking purposes.
- Practice to follow 8.1 An infringement of privacy in connection with obtaining material Ofcom may only consider an infringement of privacy in the making of a programme if the programme is broadcast.
- Complaints in this area may arise through a lack of understanding about what was actually agreed in the first instance.
- In these circumstances, “contribute” can include an interview, live or recorded, or a report of a written or oral statement or comments.
- Broadcasters should take care to report surveys and statistics in context.
- Broadcasters should be aware that there are areas of offensive language and material which are particularly sensitive.
- An image (however brief) that can be seen by viewers is not subliminal.
- This rule does not apply to the founders of recognised religions and/or belief-systems (for example Jesus Christ and Buddha).
- The meaning given in this section does not include comedies, drama or general entertainment programmes demonstrably of a non-religious nature.
- Every complaint or case will be dealt with on a case by case basis according to the individual facts of the case.
Ofcom are relevant to my show Being human since it's a very controversial TV show with explicit scenes and images like: sex, language, violence and more. Additionally to that the TV show is also owned by the BBC primarily BBC3, making most of their content aimed at younger audiences, which makes it more important that the TV programme shown, are regulated by ofcom . Unfortunately after doing my research on being human, there was no evidence found that supports being as cussed any a serious offence due to its explicit scene. However there was no compliant for the TV show being human and if they was it was not covered by ofcom;nevertheless if a viewer does get affected or offended by the content in the BBC 3 TV show Being human they have to go the Ofcom's official website to file in there compliances.
Copyright
Copyright is illegal way from stopping anyone from using or copying your work, while stopping others from copying or taking your work as their own. Copyright links to lot of media content like:films, music ,books , art and more. By using copy you can stop outsider from displaying your work as their own;you even have the power to take it further by suing anyone who tries to use it as their own.Youtube is a great example for this since they fight plagiarism everyday. Videos are uploaded on YouTube and most of them are infringement. This links to the TV show being human because they also have a copyright infringement on their media products which gives them the right to take down their content that’s being by unknown users.
Royalties
The music industry depend on royalties generated by the licensing of copyrighted songs as a primary source of payment for musicians.These are two types of Royalties copyrights:performing artists hold the rights to a particular recording of a song,songwriters hold the rights to the lyrics and melody for music this is called master recording. Songwriters can only seek copyright for a full song only ,however they cannot divide lyrics and melody into separate rights.An exmple of this can be seen in the TV show being human there their soundtrack is made by artist like “The Prodigy” which BBC used for there TV show being human.They got hold of this artist soundtrack by buying it online .
Representation
Humans representation for Gender is perhaps the basic category we use for sorting human beings; which is an essential key to our own identities.
But how does the media represent both males and females.
The Media portray Male characters a bit like a lone wolf who does not depend on others to advertise their obligations.
The most unrealistic part of a male presentation is Physique ; the way this is showed in the media makes it hard for normal males to meet the physical attributes displayed on the television screen as well as social media e.g. : Instagram, Facebook ,Tumblr and more. Nerveless the media shows viewers a distorted representation of what masculinity is, which could connotes to them as the norm.
Tough
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Don’t get too emotional
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Hard
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Can carry themselves
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Sweaty
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smalls and works hard
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Dominate
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Have social influence on others
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Simple minded
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Goes with the flow “chilled out ”
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This is how Young male perception of masculinity were distorted. To them the denotation of being a man or manning up is very ignorant but that's because they don’t know any better . To them masculinity means not showing your negative emotion around other males ; as well as only have physical attraction to female ; which means if you don’t fit into the social norm; they would then be cast aside making them an outcast in there on society as well as themselves.Segregation and classification are the two main keys that the media used to represent male by the media.
- Beauty (within narrow conventions)
- size/physique (again, within narrow conventions)
- sexuality (as expressed by the above)
- emotional (as opposed to intellectual)DEALINGS
- relationships (as opposed to independence/freedom)
My example of this can be Singers,Actress as well as models. The all have something in common which is the “Media” ; the media has so much control over female representation it's almost depressing. The media as the power to influence younger female audiences. Making some of them believe what they are saying or reading can be achieved. However it’s all just an illusion created to show false representation of females by the mass media
Kind
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Show positive emotions to others
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Beautiful
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physically attractive to others
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Weak
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Independent on the opposite sex
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Soft
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Smooth and comfortable
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Fragile
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Delicate and glial
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Good Representation of Women can be everywhere but it not show or forced on by the media. The way women are now and how they were a few centuries ago is way different; thanks to amazing women who fight for their right as woman .
Yet all this is forgotten and suppressed by the media. woman are now surpassed males in education but unfortunately they are still paid less that males. However women are rising up to the matter and fight again for equality.
