TED演讲:社交传媒和性别消失
时间:2019-02-13 作者:英语课 分类:TED演讲教育篇
英语课
I'm going to make an argument today 我今天要提出一个新思想,
that may seem a little bit crazy: 它听上去有一点儿疯狂:
social media and the end of gender 1. 社交传媒和性别消失。
Let me connect the dots. 让我把这两件事情联系起来。
I'm going to argue today 我今天要讲的是
that the social media applications 那些我们从了解到喜爱,又从喜爱到痛恨的
that we all know and love, or love to hate, 社交传媒
are actually going to help free us 其实在帮助我们
from some of the absurd assumptions 从社会中有关性别的
that we have as a society about gender. 一些荒谬假设中摆脱出来。
I think that social media 我认为社交传媒
is actually going to help us dismantle 正在帮我们消除
some of the silly and demeaning stereotypes 这些愚蠢和带有贬低的关于性别的刻板印象
that we see in media and advertising 我们在媒体和广告中都能看到
about gender. 这些关于性别的陈规。
If you hadn't noticed, 如果你还没注意到,
our media climate generally provides 我们的媒体常常制造
a very distorted mirror 有关我们生活和我们性别的
of our lives and of our gender, 一个非常歪曲的镜像。
and I think that's going to change. 我认为这应该改变。
Now most media companies -- 现在多数媒体公司--
television, radio, publishing, games, you name it -- 电视,电台,出版社,游戏,你能讲得上名字的媒体 --
they use very rigid 2 segmentation methods 他们使用非常刻板的细分方法
in order to understand their audiences. 来了解他们的观众。
It's old-school demographics. 这是老派的人口统计学。
They come up with these very restrictive labels to define us. 他们想出这些非常带有限制性的标签来定义我们。
Now the crazy thing 最疯狂的是
is that media companies believe 媒体公司相信
that if you fall within a certain demographic category 如果你属于某种统计类别
then you are predictable in certain ways -- 他们就可以按某种方式来预测你(的行为)。
you have certain taste, 你就会有某种口味,
that you like certain things. 你就会喜欢某些特别的东西。
And so the bizarre result of this 所以这奇怪的结果是
is that most of our popular culture 我们最受欢迎的文化
is actually based on these presumptions 是建立在这些
about our demographics. 有关统计的假象上。
Age demographics: 年龄统计学说:
the 18 to 49 demo 从18岁到49岁的人,
has had a huge impact 对我国
on all mass media programming in this country 自从1960年代起所有大众媒体
since the 1960s, 的节目安排有一个巨大影响力,
when the baby boomers were still young. 也就是当婴儿潮一代人还年轻时。
Now they've aged 3 out of that demographic, 现在他们已经过了那人口统计年龄段,
but it's still the case 但这还有个例子
that powerful ratings companies like Nielson 像Nielson这样评级优秀的公司
don't even take into account 把年龄段
viewers of television shows over age 54. 超过54岁的电视用户没有考虑在内。
In our media environment, 在我们媒体环境中,
it's as if they don't even exist. 这就好比他们不存在似的。
Now, if you watch "Mad Men," like I do -- 假如你和我一样看“MadMen广告狂人” --
it's a popular TV show in the States -- 这是在美国的一个流行电视节目 --
Dr. Faye Miller 4 does something called psychographics, 博士费伊·米勒研究所谓的消费心态学,
which first came about in the 1960s, 它在1960年代第一次出现,
where you create these complex psychological profiles 用来描绘消费者的
of consumers. 复杂的心理概况。
But psychographics really haven't had a huge impact on the media business. 但是消费心态学对媒体行业却没有多大的影响力。
It's really just been basic demographics. 它仅是基础的人口统计。
So I'm at the Norman Lear Center at USC, 我在南加州大学诺曼·李尔中心,
and we've done a lot of research over the last seven, eight years 在过去七八年,我们做了很多
on demographics 关于人口统计学的研究
and how they affect media and entertainment 以及在我国和全球范围内
in this country and abroad. 人口统计学是如何影响媒体和娱乐界的。
And in the last three years, 在过去三年
we've been looking specifically at social media to see what has changed, 我们一直仔细观察社交传媒,看它如何变化。
and we've discovered some very interesting things. 我们发现一些非常有趣的事。
All the people who participate in social media networks 参与社交传媒网的所有人
belong to the same old demographic categories 都能被归入以前旧的人口统计学里的种类
that media companies and advertisers 那些媒体公司和广告商们
have used in order to understand them. 以前用来了解人们的统计种类。
But those categories mean even less now 但是这些旧的统计分类和以前相比,
than they did before, 简直无足轻重。
because with online networking tools, 因为有了在线网络工具,
it's much easier for us 要跳出
to escape some of our demographic boxes. 旧的人口统计的陈规变得容易多了。
n.(生理上的)性,(名词、代词等的)性
- French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语,所有的名词都有性。
- Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。
adj.严格的,死板的;刚硬的,僵硬的
- She became as rigid as adamant.她变得如顽石般的固执。
- The examination was so rigid that nearly all aspirants were ruled out.考试很严,几乎所有的考生都被淘汰了。
adj.年老的,陈年的
- He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了,也老点了。
- He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老,然而记忆力还好。
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