media

Web 2.0 – Participation or Hegemony

Nick Lacey explored the issues that has the Web 2.0 been democratised our access to the media now a days, and has it switched the power from produce to the audience. Lacey says that web 2.0 allow the audience to become produces of the media and their texts, as they can write their opinion and view on YouTube channel and videos (UGC), people can now write their views on blogs and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. People don’t need –people can say or write things in the media now days, as they don’t need a gate keeper. They would be happier to write their opinion and view on the internet as it has such a mass audience online, as they don’t need to pay for certain things in the media, they can just write it and say it.

Key information:
* No more gatekeepers
* Audiences have become producers
* Individuals relying on individuals

In the Age of Media Six Questions about Media and Participation

David Buckingham, Professor of Media and Communications at Loughborough University, claim that society and Web has changed through the years, as new technological and equipment has changed the way people think now days. Professor Buckingham claim that before in the past there was just one person or a specific people that just controlled the social media people saw in the past, as that they only had the right to say and do what they felt like, so people didn’t really have a chose on the media in society back then, he also says that the ads we watch has brought a bigger and broader media revolution, as a result that everyone has power and controller in the media in society now.  He says that blogs and forums give people the opportunities to give their own views and opinion in the media. That now day people do need to be a critic, that ordinary people can say what they like in society, which has effect the media a lot, as people can accuses and write their options and views anytime and anywhere in the world and that everyone has the freedom to say what they feel like it.  As Facebook and Google are the richest online businesses.   

Key information:
* Everything has changed because of the new technology
* Ordinary people are in control of the internet
* There are no more editors or gatekeepers in control
* People get to say their view on internet to millions on people
* Google and Facebook are the most money making corporation online
* People make their own videos which could be accessed everywhere around the world


Participation Debates – The media and democracy

BBC to create CBeebies Land

BBC to create CBeebies Land

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/oct/15/bbc-cbeebies-land-alton-towers

The BBC has made a deal with the owners of the Alton Towers business to create a CBeebies land at the resort, this will allow the fans of Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy and Postman Pat a chance to meet their favourite characters at the resort, also, the chance to go onto their branded rides and games in Alton Towers.

The BBC has made a multi pound million deal with the owners of LEGOLAND and also the iconic Madame Tussauds in London, which the CBeebies Land will be created in spring next year.

 I think that this is a good investment for the BBC as they know million of children has been watching the channel for a long time with their parent, as they have found a gap in the market compared to their competition and have appealed it to their business, which will help their business a lot, as they’ll make a lot of money from this every year, if this keeps on happening.  

Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus dethrones PewDiePie as world's most popular YouTube channel

Miley Cyrus has had the most viewer/watched You Tube channel in the last two months, as the Pop Star released his new new song from her new album 'Bangerz' called Wrecking Ball. As Miley had over 270 million views on her YouTube. on the first week when the song Wrecking Ball was released the song had 211 million views on it.

The only reason why this song has so many views on it, is the drama around Miley Cyrus and the action gown in the music video, as she is known as the 'white girl who can twerk', as she has shown evry that in her early re;eased song this year called ' we can't stop and the vma performance in august, as in this video she is licking a hammer and swing around on a huge rock, nude.

Viral Video Chart: woman quits with Kanye West dance

Most people quit their jobs with a formal letter – or at least a meeting with their boss. Marina Shifrin, who works for a Taiwanese video production company, took things to the next level by resigning with an "interpretive dance" set to Kanye West's Gone. Shifrin succeeded in her aim of raising her profile – she hopes to make the move into comedy – and the video now has almost 13m plays. 

The rise and rise of UGC

1. What is meant by the term ‘citizen journalist’?
2. What was one of the first examples of news being generated by ‘ordinary people’?
3. List some of the formats for participation that are now offered by news organisations.
4. What is one of the main differences between professionally shot footage and that taken first-hand (UGC)?
5. What is a gatekeeper?
6. How has the role of a gatekeeper changed?
7. What is one of the primary concerns held by journalists over the rise of UGC?

1. Citizen journalist means that when ordinary people generate news because of the improved technology over the year, people are becoming citizen journalists, people are distributing news videos on the internet for people. As this women is saying that anyone in the society we are living in now can be a journalist.  

2. The first example of news being generated by ordinary people was the Rodney king incident.As a Black man was beaten up by four police office, as they thought he was under the influence of drugs, as this guy run from the police offices as when he was caught the man was beaten by the police and was hit 53 times with the police's stick. this was caught on tape by a person who was on the same street when this happened. 

3. Some of the format participation are: message boards, chat rooms, blogs with comments embedded on them, and Q&A. some of the biggest social networking site which contain this is Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Myspace.

4. The difference between professional shot footage and first hand shot footage, is that the professional footage is often more hard hitting and emotive. free hand create such a understanding of realism of the footage and show the audience how nature the shot is, having a professional shot it exclude the main idea of realism to the audience and viewers. 

5. Gatekeeper are the people who decide what is the news or not, if this information is right for the audience, would they understand and how this would effect them in the future and present, as they have the control of the news in this society.

6. The role of the gate keeper has changed as many people have a chance to write and comment on anything they feel is news, as before many people didn't want to say anything in society, but  now people feel that  people say and write anything in society to create news.as thesis will attract and stand out to such a mass audience in society.

bbc and sun

The Sun

The Sun is a daily tabloid newspaper which is published in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The News Group Newspaper division of the New UK publishes it; the founder of the sun newspaper business is Rupert Murdoch.

The Sun has the ninth-largest circulation of any newspaper in the world and the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the United Kingdom. It had an average daily circulation of 2,409,811 copies in January 2013. Between January and June 2012 the paper had an average daily readership of approximately 7.3 million, with approximately 34% of those falling into the demographic and 64% in the demographic. The average age of a Sun reader is 45 and approximately 45% of readers are women. 

BBC

BBC news is  a free commercial broadcasters they broadcast on TV, Radio and on their website. They show two different type of news at a certain time for the viewers, the first one is at 6pm a this is the time everyone is coming home work and watching the latest heading in the world and the other one is at 10pm, as people are ready to go to bed and check the latest news, both of them are national news and start after when they finish local news comes up. They are a really big commercial service whose remit is to inform, entertain and educate. The BBC has such a niche audience, as only some people watch it every day not compared to their completion like channel four and sky news 

 

Autumn brings a chill for BlackBerry

Sources: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/22/autumn-final-chill-blackberry

Thorsten Heins, chief executive of Blackberry has sold his mobile phone business to Microsoft for (£4.5bn) this month, as many people are saying that is this the end for blackberry business and there services, as to how long BlackBerry, as this week the business lost 620m pounds of their withdrawn of the z10 which was meant to release in January, also the business lost 250m pounds due to their net loss.as blackberry were expecting to make 1.6bn pounds his season for their phones and service, but now IPhone will make this profit due to the new phones they just released on Friday.

 On Friday, the company said it would cut 4,500 jobs, roughly 40% of its 11,000 total worldwide, adding to 7,000 jobs cut in the two previous financial years. It will reduce its future phone portfolio from six to four.

This weekend was meant to be a new start for the company, with an attempt to turn back the clock to when it was the star of the tech world by offering its famous BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) software free for iPhones and Android phones. But rivals such as WhatsApp are already on both, with more users,

I think that Thorsten Heins has made the right move for his business, himself and society as many people have moved off blackberry's service and move to apple's IPhones, as society and people have changed, as many people are following in other people footstep to use and buy the latest things.