FIFA 13 has contributed to around 12% of break-ups in the past month

FIFA 13 has contributed to around 12% of break-ups in the past month, according to a new UK survey.

1,124 newly-single people were polled by VoucherCodesPro about why their relationship of one year or less ended.

© EA

© EA

revealed that the latest in EA's football game franchise was a contributing factor.

Of those 12%, 43% said that one person in the relationship was guilty of spending more time withFIFA 13 than their partner, and 87% identified the person playing the game as male.

Facebook testing promoted user posts in the US

Facebook is testing a new product in the US that would allow ordinary users to promote their own status updates, such as birthdays or anniversaries, in their friends' news feeds.

The move, which would mark a major shift in the social network's strategy of not charging its users, involves a 'Promote' button being added to the options around status updates.

i think this was alway on the cads and arguably it just makes the hyperdermic needle and the 2 step flow theory more prominant as i can imagine big companies and "easy women/ men" using it.




 

representation of race and ethnicity

As discussed in today's lesson, I'd like you to write a short analysis on your 13A Exam blog of the representation of race and ethnicity in the two texts we studied today: the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony and the subsequent opinion piece on the Daily Mail website the following day. The links you need:

The Olympic Opening Ceremony on the BBC website - from 56.30 (music section based around the surburban-style house). If that doesn't work, try YouTube where the section you need is a little later (around an hour in).

The Daily Mail article you have a copy of but you may find this Guardian article on it useful.

many different ideas and representations are presented in both the article and the clip from the opening ceremony.

The opening ceremony was predominantly seen as a success and a good representation of modern Britain with multicultural themes running through out the performance. however, some could argue that the whole 'ethnic guy searching for this ethnic girl' promotes a cultural segregation i.e "keep with your own kind" which is a very secondary and cynical  look at the piece. however the preferred reading is still promoting multiculturalism.

in terms of the article it was overwhelmingly negative towards ethnic minorities with the writer going so far as to hint that you could not find a white middle-class woman and a black middle-class man living together happily. This could be playing on the stereotype of "black men dont stick around and look after there kids" however the more likely subtext is the fact that you would struggle to find a black middle class man in Great Britain. 


Another point of view from the text is that the music and the whole feel of it was mostly english/western which arguably could play on Frants Fanon' "black skin , white mask" theory ,this is the theory where in which ethnic people must masquerade as whites to be accepted this is supported by the casting decisions is possibly as far away from fanons infantilize, primitive, decivilized and essentialised theory. however the last song 'bokers' by dizzie rascal is 'stereotypically' a song for black youths which creates a secondary argument which could be that ethnic people and native people now have a shared culture which disproves the equal but different stereotype created after the civil war in america and of course Frantz Fanon.