The Disney Frontier Blog

Description: A project on the portrayal of masculinity offered in Disney films

Description: Alex, Edwin, Albin & Lukas visit Liseberg If Michael Moore were eight years old and Swedish, this he'd be jealous of this film. The dark side of Scandanavian amusement (parks). Sociology, from children's perspective, revealing the phenomenology of amusement park rides. If Sweden had had Liseberg Amusement Park in the 19th century, north central USA would be a wasteland. Gothenburg would now be home to all Europeans seeking a better life in New World.

Description: visit http://coanews.org Project Censored is a national research effort launched in 1976 by Dr. Carl Jensen, professor emeritus of Communications Studies at Sonoma State University. Upon Jensen's retirement in 1996, leadership of the project was passed to associate professor of sociology and media research specialist, Dr. Peter Phillips. Under Phillips's guidance, Project Censored tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters, and every year the group compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country's major national news media. Veteran broadcaster Walter Cronkite said Project Censored "is one of the organization's we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and broadcasting outlets are practicing thorough and ethical journalism." Phillips says, "the restructuring of media in the United States is creating forms of censorship that are as potentially damaging as overt censorship." "Media corporations have been undergoing a massive merging process that is realigning our sources of information in America," Phillips wrote in a an op-ed recently. "Values such as freedom of information and belief in the responsibility of keeping the public informed are adjusted to reflect policies created by bottom-line oriented CEOs. Media owners and managers are motivated to please advertisers and upper-middle-class readers and viewers. Journalists and editors are not immune from management influence. Journalists want to see their stories approved for print or broadcast, and editors come to know the limits of their freedom to diverge from the bottom line view of owners and managers. The results are an expansion of entertainment news, infomercials and synergistic news - all aimed at increased profit taking." Additionally, Phillips said the 11 largest or most influential media corporations in the United States - General Electric Company (NBC), Viacom Inc. (cable), The Walt Disney Company (ABC), Time Warner Inc.(CNN), Westinghouse Electric Corporation (CBS), The News Corporation Ltd. (Fox), Gannett Co. Inc., Knight-Ridder Inc., New York Times Co., Washington Post Co. and the Times Mirror Co. - represent the interests of corporate America, and that the media elite are the watchdogs of acceptable ideological messages, the parameters of news and information content and the general use of media resources. "Do the media elite directly censor the news?" Phillips asks. "Without being privy to insider conversations, it is difficult to prove direct censorship by management of particular stories in the news. But an organizational tendency is to comply with the general corporate culture, and career-minded journalists and editors sharing this common corporate culture will create what direct censorship cannot: a general compliance with the attitudes, wishes, and expectations of the media elite and, in turn, corporate America."

Description: This is the latest intallment to the highly popular Kate Crash subway gaijin sketch. This time, Kate assumes the role of car-loving bigger-the-better American dude, who somehow find himself on Tokyo subway. The commentary he makes about cultural differences between America and Japan is "the work of true comic genius!" This "extraordinarily funny" movie has been a subject of many sociological studies in research institutions all across the world.

Description: INFO: Choose your path. The idea of this is our youth being built to be what certain people want them to be, so you have the option to say yes or no, and you got to do it quick. Or refresh and re-watch, hahah. VIDEO EXPLANATION: This piece discusses the end of one part, you decided to just follow curriculum, you've been conditioned to believe whatever you are told and thus you are just an empty vessel. Subsequently you lose "self" LYRICS: You stand there arrest Full of attention A fool for the attention You've a selection- Process for general observation For the general To see if you're worth ranking You're a loyal mother fucker you are Spoiled ass-to amass your faces in masks Make-ups and new era caps But it's time. The days in front of television screens And what type of shit they teach No cultural understanding Sociology and philosophy studies? no, only American history And America wins- At everything. We've stolen land- From Indians Segregated And a justice system Whose only justification Is fame and fortune Unfortunate it is Our youth is unable to see But they're blinded by reality t.v. and hollywood and disney You've been given a world of pleasure Plethora of hidden pensions The hidden intention Dumb it down For a community To bend- At will. A killer turned corporate civilian, you've been pawned for profiteering Still shit like this-is funny it is. The pun intended- You've been killed. Dumbass.