I want to study the idea behind the awarding of prizes in contests, to
learn about how winners are awarded and why certain winners are labelled as 'wrong' winners, because I want to learn how these decisions come about.
Prizes and Pop Culture
Monday 12 March 2012
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Lens Question
Phenomenon:
the moment when the crowning of the pageant winner was announced. Why and how could this happen?
How does Street’s claim that prizes can be awarded to the 'wrong' winner, help explain the drastic change in the pageant winner in Hairspray.
the moment when the crowning of the pageant winner was announced. Why and how could this happen?
How does Street’s claim that prizes can be awarded to the 'wrong' winner, help explain the drastic change in the pageant winner in Hairspray.
Sunday 15 January 2012
Friday 13 January 2012
The case against awards
Prior to reading this article, I had some thoughts about the justification of awards. Sometimes, I feel that judges made a wrong choice by awarding to a non-deserving candidate. I do agree partially with Chait that the wrong person do win at times. From the earlier part of his article, his basis was sort of caused by biasness from the authorities or the judging committee towards the awardee. Then again, his biasness was probably built up by his personal experiences from his teacher who joined NASA. It is very clear that he is very one-sided and persistent in his stand His tone shows that he is very adamant that he is absolutely right. However, the second part of his article somehow makes sense to me, that our emotions play a very crucial role in our judgement. Personal biasness seems to be acting subconsciously in our minds. The Nobel peace prize example is something that we should take note of, hopefully it isn't true. Otherwise, the true meaning of the Nobel peace prize would be destroyed.
Tuesday 10 January 2012
Peace Prize on the Putin Prime Minister
I find this article very interesting as it
contradicts itself in a very “nice” manner. I was shocked to find out
that a peace prize was awarded to a person who caused war, instead of peace. Furthermore,
the committee that awarded this peace prize award was able to justify
themselves by throwing out “unbelievable” reasons. His ruthlessness was painted
in a different light by the committee and praised to the extent that the
purpose of going to war was an applaudable one. This article is trying to provoke
sarcasm to the Putin’s prime minister in a very polite manner. The mere action
of holding of a news conference on China International Peace Studies Center, but
yet there was little reporting in the Chinese news media about the award, shows
the unimportance of publicizing this award to the Chinese people. Whereas, twitter
was utilized to spread this award, clearly illustrates the target audience that
the committee is aiming at- the rest of the world, in particular tapping on the
strength of the social media. According
to the last year’s winner, Lien Chan, the award wasn’t properly explained and publicized
to him, at least. Therefore, this again reflects the sincerity and importance
of this award to the awardee. Towards the end of the article, I have the
feeling that the original meaning of prizes has evolved in this context and has
undertaken a complex nature. Whereby, the awarding of a prize may not
necessarily carry the good nature of it. Hence, I conclude that this award
appears to be more of a jeer than a true award, for its purpose.
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