Dear Mr. Murdoch
I am writing to inform you of my displeasure at the news that your some news organisations that your news corporation owns are going to charge for news. I understand that the world we live in is driven by money, but is it really necessary to charge for newspapers and then also online? I guess its your decision ultimately but is the customer not always right? I feel that news online should be free because if your going to charge for it someone else is going to provide pretty much the same story for free, and then you loose demand gradually, reduced revenue, lower if any profit levels and eventually news corporation closes. At the end of the day I'm looking out for myself, but in a sense I am also looking out for you. I would be open to coming and meeting you once your done with all of that phone hacking stuff that you got caught up in. I wouldn't mind getting a job also, you can hit me up on my mobile, its the one that ends in 472. Also is it the best idea to charge for news online just after your firm gets some of the biggest negative publicity in newspaper history?
Yours sincerely
Kanye East
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Rodney King article summary
The foundation and building blocks of social networking
websites are UGC.
When there are natural disasters happening and the
television crews can’t get in they often rely on the citizen journalists to
provide insights, footage and something to report on. It is often more
hard-hitting and emotional than professionally shot news footage because it
provides a true insight into the happenings.
Citizen journalists have been useful during disasters such
as the Asian tsunami on 2004 and the July bombings in London 2005.
People have questioned that when citizen journalists are
helping to pridce news and broadcast it in dangerous situations are they
endangering themselves, and are the producers of the show endangering them
further by showing their tweets and footage that they are sending out.
Gate keepers are still there in the mainstream news
broadcasting as they decide what makes major news and what gets put on the show
and also in what order according to relevance and importance. However in the
less mainstream, the underground if you will, there are fewer gatekeepers. For
example blogger, if you use this blogging service provided by Google you become
a source of news if that’s what you decide you want to use it as. You become a
gatekeeper, but you can decide as to what you talk about. The same applies for
YouTube and twitter. You can set up accounts based for news, get a following
get people to send in news stories and you give them air time. Because of the
reduced numbers of gatekeepers on the internet it allows for niche views often
of minorities to get a much wider audience than they would in the mainstream.
It is thought that in the future there will be less
permanent based journalists, and the news corporations will move in a direction
of a coregroup that decides what UGC gets air time and what gets to go on their
website. Another view is that the gatekeepers and the mediators will disappear
eventually too and we will live in a world where the media is in its purest
form, uncensored and unmediated. However this does have negative consequenses
if the media does go this way, where people who can shout the loudest win and
those with racist views get to put their views across to larger audiences.
Could this create more hate groups like the KKK or the Nazis? There are huge
risks to an unmediated media, ones that are too big to ignore.
Weekly Media Story - Week 6
Even though this isn't a Guardian article I still think its important.
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/11/07/twitter-breaks-record-on-us-election-night
My boy from day, Barack Obama, won the US election and is now in the white house as president for a second term. #2Termz!! This epic win for Obama, is significant in both US history and also in twitter history as it is now the most tweeted about political event in the history of twitter, with more than 31 million election related tweets sent. The previous record was only 10 million. Twitter has played a big role in the election, highlighted mainly by the debates which set the twitterverse alight "Twitter brought people closer to almost every aspect of the election this year", Horwitz said. "From breaking news, to sharing the experience of watching the debates, to interacting directly with the candidates, Twitter became a kind of nationwide caucus". Once it was announced that Obama had won Twitter broke out into a frenzy which reached a peak of 327,000 tweets per minute. Obama later took to his official twitter account with this tweet alongside the picture, and it became the most retweeted tweet in the history of twitter. Last night was a night that will go down in the history of both America and Twitter. The electiopn.
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http://www.torontosun.com/2012/11/07/twitter-breaks-record-on-us-election-night
My boy from day, Barack Obama, won the US election and is now in the white house as president for a second term. #2Termz!! This epic win for Obama, is significant in both US history and also in twitter history as it is now the most tweeted about political event in the history of twitter, with more than 31 million election related tweets sent. The previous record was only 10 million. Twitter has played a big role in the election, highlighted mainly by the debates which set the twitterverse alight "Twitter brought people closer to almost every aspect of the election this year", Horwitz said. "From breaking news, to sharing the experience of watching the debates, to interacting directly with the candidates, Twitter became a kind of nationwide caucus". Once it was announced that Obama had won Twitter broke out into a frenzy which reached a peak of 327,000 tweets per minute. Obama later took to his official twitter account with this tweet alongside the picture, and it became the most retweeted tweet in the history of twitter. Last night was a night that will go down in the history of both America and Twitter. The electiopn.
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Learner response
WWW: Some confident writing, Elliot (my name is spelt ELLIOTT!), that makes use of some autonomous research and provides a range of examples (on the last page).
EBI: The essay takes too long to get started: Rewrite the introduction and first paragraph to include specific details and explicit reference to institutions/audiences.
New and digital media has seen significant changes over the past 20 years and coming to the forefront of mainstream media, for example the Internet. The Internet is on the news every night, for example the presidential debate causing a personal record of tweets per minute for President Barack Obama.
The media revolution, possibly the biggest cultural change worldwide since the industrial revolution has taken the world by storm. The Internet empowers people all around the world. For example in east Africa, the Arab spring where information released by wiki leaks about the bad government and managed to over through their government.
EBI: The essay takes too long to get started: Rewrite the introduction and first paragraph to include specific details and explicit reference to institutions/audiences.
New and digital media has seen significant changes over the past 20 years and coming to the forefront of mainstream media, for example the Internet. The Internet is on the news every night, for example the presidential debate causing a personal record of tweets per minute for President Barack Obama.
The media revolution, possibly the biggest cultural change worldwide since the industrial revolution has taken the world by storm. The Internet empowers people all around the world. For example in east Africa, the Arab spring where information released by wiki leaks about the bad government and managed to over through their government.
Newspaper Chart
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Traditional Paper-based Form
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Online News Site
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Has a
purchase price. Is not free
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Has
predominantly free content
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Can be
accessed anywhere with internet access
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Can be
easily marked or destroyed
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Content
remains even if portal of access is destroyed.
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Usually
target a specific audience base
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Can reach a wider target audience non-specific
some, and some target a niche audience
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Costly
to produce; paper, printing etc.
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Cheap
and often free because it has virtually no cost unless requiring a
professional.
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Costly
to distribute
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Cheap to
distribute
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Limited printing space, a 24 news cycle using
news stories from the previous 24 hours. Often original or brand new stories
that have been already used by tv news outlets.
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Can
offer countless news stories at any one time plus the ability to archive
stories, although many of these news stories are simply replications or
re-workings of main news stories and may be cut and pasted news stories from
other mainstream news sites.
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Only
print version of story available
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Avaliable
on mobile devices, and desktops.
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Cannot
be updated immediately and regularly
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Can be
updated immediately and regularly 21 minutes.
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Is not
interactive
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Can be
interactive
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Cannot
allow audience immediate feedback/ citizen journalism
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Allows
for audience immediate feedback and citizen journalism.
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Can
offer in-depth analysis and comment but is limited by space.
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Varied
options for expansion of topic matter. In depth editorials and comment.
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Audience
Gratifications of The Guardian website.
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Audience Gratification
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Long-running
chat boards
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Feels like a contributor and that they are becoming
a news maker.
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Network
of weblogs
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Leaving
comments on articles
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Can make
an audience feel powerful by creating the idea that they are challenging the news
institution’s values
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Readers
can access articles online, on mobile devices through RSS feeds or on eBook
readers.
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Immediacy. They decide what they read and what
they view as important to an extent
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Varied
selection of categories in easy accessible genre areas
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Images
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Visual
pleasures
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Podcast
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Listen
to the news, gives gt
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Access
to paper-based content
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Dating
sites/ personals
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Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Weekly Media Story - Week 5
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/06/bskyb-deal-universal-movie-rights
So bSkyb the company that holds the majority stake in the televison and broadband company sky has struck up a deal with Universal films for the exclusive rights to films. This could cause an investigation as to is their enough competition amongst tv subscription broadcasters, and if Sky is becoming too big.
The deal means that Sky will get first dibs at films for their Sky box office pay per-view service which shows the latest films before they come out on dvd.
So bSkyb the company that holds the majority stake in the televison and broadband company sky has struck up a deal with Universal films for the exclusive rights to films. This could cause an investigation as to is their enough competition amongst tv subscription broadcasters, and if Sky is becoming too big.
The deal means that Sky will get first dibs at films for their Sky box office pay per-view service which shows the latest films before they come out on dvd.
Sunday, 4 November 2012
Half-Term Homework
Arab Spring
- Series of protests, demonstrations and wars against governments
- Mainly North Africa
- Caused by wiki leaks leaking documents about the corruption governments
- Also causes by the youth being able to see the different democracies around the world and how they had a terrible situation.
- Tunisia + Egypt the first main rebellions
- News institutions relied on UGC for footage because news crews werent being allowed in some countires.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/mar/22/middle-east-protest-interactive-timeline
Ian Tomlinson
- Died during G20 protests
- Hit and pushed by police officer, suffered a heart attack shortly after
- Police officer ended up getting away with it
- The guardian published footage after the initial post mortum showing the police brutality. Sparking uproar amongst the public.
- The footage was UGC
- Ian wouldn't of received justice if it wasn't for this UGC
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/19/ian-tomlinson-family-civil-case
Gaddafi & Libya
- Dictator killed and overruled
- Civil war ripped through the country
- Rebels protest against Gaddafi's reign
- Gaddafi claims that they are linked to Al Quedea
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/12/libyan-attack-fire-cannot-extinguish
Christian Bale Rant
- During the recording of Terminator: Salvation
- Screaming at staff
- Wouldn't of been given the worlwide attention if it wasn't for citizen journalism to an extent
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/06/bbc-apology-christian-bale-rant
Bus Driver Uppercut
- On a bus in Cleveland Ohio, America. A young black girl got uppercuted by the bus driver
- Showed on WSHH
- Covered by most urban news outlet
- Sparked arguments about if its right or wrong
- Trying to get WSHH shut down because of it
- Wouldn't of come to light if not for a citizen journalist shooting the footage and uploading it to WSHH
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/18/worldstarhiphop-bankable-brand-brutality
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