Daily Mail and Guardian digital 'minnows', says News UK chief

Mike Darcy has been criticising the guardian and daily mails approach to finding  sustainable model for professional journalism 

NDM INDEX 2

25/11/13 : Virgin Galactic to accept Bitcoin for space flights
25/11/13 :Why Mail Online's 'terracotta army' is winning the digital war

5/1/14 : Snapchat reacts to hacking group releasing millions of phone
LG 'to exit traditional PC market' amid declining sales and profit squeeze
Page 3 is demeaning and regressive - Eleanor Mills of the Sunday Times.
Sky to open movie rental service to non-subscribers

20/1/14 : OMG! Number of UK text messages falls for first time
The Rupert Murdoch era is all but over'

3/2/14  ‘Telegraph’ editor Gallagher sacked over move away from newsprint
YouTube reveals $1bn music payouts, but some labels still unhappy.

10/3/14 Is it wrong to axe BBC3?
The Sun uses Page 3 models to make women aware of breast cancer

5 examples

1.
http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/lifestyle/big-issue/barbie-recreated-normal-proportions

this article is on the Barbie doll, and how a creator of a new doll has made one that has a more accurate size and features of an overage 19 year old girl, the doll is still pretty but more realistic and could stop young girls growing up thinking they have to be stick thin

2.
http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/lifestyle/big-issue/fearless-females-fightback/the-female-fightback?click=main_sr

Thousands of women across the world are fighting for their basic rights – while others just want to make our lives that bit better. As a new book, Pink Sari Revolution, details the rise of the Pink Gang in India, we highlight the work of the women around the world who are taking a stand against injustice and refusing to be silenced.

3.
http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/love-sex/tips/love-hunny-sexy-alarm-clock-vibrator-4688

an article on how to have an orgasm for women without a man, saying that you dont need men etc, feminism

The Sun uses Page 3 models to make women aware of breast cancer

The widely controversial page 3 in the the sun newspaper has been used as a tool to raise awareness for breast cancer, it has joined the charity coppafeel in order to encourage women to get their breasts checked regularly, they also plan to make this a regular thing by making the memorable sub heading 'check em tuesdays'

 believe that this is a great idea to challenge anti page three campaigners, however do women really look or read page 3? in my opinion most would flck past that page, so would they really even get the message, tse are one of the many questions that could be raised against the campaign. raising awareness on issues as such is considered more ethical though, so it could generate more sales in the women demographic just for the simple fact of the editors appearing more sincere and caring about world problems.

Is it wrong to axe BBC3?

the BBC is to axe its channel 'bbc3' which is aimed at a younger audience, it has the most diverse audience, fostered new comedy talent continually and had the most diverse programmes, however due to the licence fee freeze their budgest have had to be cut, they are however still showing bbc3 programmes online which makes sense as most teens watch tv online now a days anyway, a licence freeze for the bbc can have detrimental effects such as this as it is the BBC's only source of income.
The youth aren't being told to "piss off to the internet"; they're already there. A quarter of 16 to 24-year-olds' viewing is via catch-up and the BBC expects that to rise to 40% – and that's before you consider non-TV videos on YouTube and the like.
moving to the online platform will help new talent be able to be produced and broadcasted, three hugely original new dramas will be launched on iPlayer. All from new writers and directors, and each to a natural length, from 13 minutes to 17, that would have sat awkwardly on TV. One is about Muslim speed dating, another's entirely in verse. BBC3 is still innovating, still diverse and still taking risks – it's just doing it online. 

YouTube reveals $1bn music payouts, but some labels still unhappy.

A recent research shows that 38.4% of all youtubes views are from music videos
reinforcing googles subsidary's position as the worlds biggest streaming service.
over a billion dollars was paid out over the past several years, they claim that they are
all in on music.
Not everyone is convinced. A key theme of this year’s Midem has been continued resentment towards YouTube and its parent company from musicians, independent labels and industry bodies alike. Pickett was heckled during his panel session, and the conference also saw regular anti-Google outbursts from speakers.

“I am concerned with YouTube entering the market because for YouTube everything is about dominance, and dominance is connected to destruction,”

I believe that because youtube is so powerfull to the point where its the mass' power to choose where they listen
to their music and in this case youtube is so accessible free and easy to use and it was they first of its kind when things like vevo and youtube combined.
youtube has seemed to change the music indusry which can affect sales in music cd's and downloads, as people can stream for free.

‘Telegraph’ editor Gallagher sacked over move away from newsprint

Tony Gallagher was sacked on tuedsay 14th of jan, due to him not being the man that can lead them into the digital change.

Mr Gallagher has edited britains best quality Daily since 2009

his departure come as the telegraph seeks to reinvent themselves after introducing online subscriptions last year

He left the telegraph to sounds of journalists banging their tables

dispite running their website he has failed to shed his image of the traditional newspaper man.

my views are that if daily mail need to shift with the times and start becoming more technologically advanced then they have made the right choice, they would need to bring a younger editor with fresh ideas and a good knowledge on the internet and trends, however gallaggher has been editing since 09 and their style could change too much to the point where their readers may feel that it isnt the same news source anymore.

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The development of New and digital media means the audience is more powerful in terms of the consumption and production. Discuss the argument for and against this view.

New and Digital media has changed the world as we know it, many agree that it has empowered audiences and created new paths for success and wealth while creating revolutions in technology and society.

In terms of consumption and production, is the internet a tool for the people or the worlds biggest surveillance device? A Pluralist would believe the internet is a free form platform and society can freely choose what to watch, browse and create, however, a Marxist believes in quite the opposite, that a hierarchy exists and humans are exposed subliminally to a form of brainwashing known as advertising.

A pluralist would argue that websites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter allow the public freedom of speech and a sense of libertarian-ism which is what  Pioneers of the internet think.
"The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information" - Tim Berners Lee, this quote leads us to believe that the internet was created for pure and simplistic reasons, to share information freely and available across the globe for example the ideas of youtube and twitter, however, it has become so much more, media conglomerates have taken action on the cash cow and monetized and advertised their way through to the consumers minds and wallets, in 2012 the top 1 million websites (out of 634 million) shared 43% of internet traffic this is increasing rapidly, the top 5 websites in the world generate 4250,000,000 unique hits a month .The internet is now a multimedia platform intertwining video, music, text, communication. A consumerists dream.

A Marxist view considers the fact that everything in the media has been placed for a reason, to restrict society's freedom and be formed from a young age to think and act like consumers or "mindless monkeys" not producers which is where the internet shows its pluralistic values, the internet allows users to speak their mind, for example the Arab springs, users tweeted about what was happening with the government whereby 200,000 tweets where made in the first 18 days and in its peak 200,000 tweets an hour, this created a revolution which allowed citizens of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen fight for Democracy.

Simplistically Marxists believe a man such as Rupert Murdoch, a rich elite with much power over the media can force his ideologies on society through his news and TV stations to create hegemony across the public, as he owns so much of the media a general consumer would find it impossible to not watch something created by News Corp. this is where capitalism and globalism come together, and by these two things coming together it is easier to create dominant ideologies. this follows Millband's ideas on Marxism saying the ruling class have a big role to play in the media creating ideologies and social norms, since they control all the information audiences receive.

A pluralist could argue against this point as Rupert Murdoch's paper 'The sun' one of the best selling Saturday newspapers struggles to find its place on the web, does this mean that society has found better more independent sources of news for free, from research, websites such as YouTube have channels such as 'Source fed' creating content just as fast as any other news conglomerate, this could mean that audiences are not only subject to media conglomerates but have found their own preference of news in terms of delivery and platform, however, these channels are really just replicas of the bigger chains of news stations and really they are receiving the same news just condensed, this can raise the question to whether any of us really have freedom of choice or are we just subject to the ruling class' ideologies?

The internet is developing, rapidly, and although the government, media corporations and advertising industries may not seem like they know what they are doing at all times, they are always one step ahead of the consumer, Marxist values and ideas seem to make greater sense as we are all spoon fed our entertainment, information, and even our own views and ideas are not original, as consumers we see and we replicate but until society can invent for purposes apart from money and wealth, then the most we can ever achieve is to join the ruling class.











  

Olympic ceremony

The Olympic ceremony opening in London 2012 subverted Alverado and Fanon theories by using a mixed race family in the opening ceremony, the husband did not fit in under any of the titles that Alverado mentions, the family come across as civilised and acceptable, they also used a mixed race girl and a black boy as two of the main characters in the sketch on music genres, however on the family, this may not be very realistic as in the uk we know that many mixed race homes don't tend to be so stable, causing children to only have one parent, the representation of London and Britain as a whole was positive however more right winged citizens would say that this is an outrage and that the NHS should not have been glorified, and that a mixed race family should never be promoted, some of the things shown could of been shown as what London wanted to be seen like, a more idealistic view rather than a realistic one.

monday 20th ndm 2

The Rupert Murdoch era is all but over'

When looking back at 2013 and forward to 2014 it is tempting to focus on all the "new" things that have happened or are about to happen. The Twitters, Facebooks, Buzzfeeds, Vices, Snapchats and so on, whose influence is no doubt being overestimated in the short term and underestimated in the long term, as is traditional with transformative technology. But look at the media we have – as opposed to the media we might have – and something very big has happened. And although "new" media have played a part, it is in the heartland of Britain's oldest medium – the press – that this epoch-shifting change has occurred. The Murdoch era is all but over

I believe that Rupert Murdoch has so much influence over the media that there is no possible way he could lose this power any time soon, he has so many newspapers and power over new and digital technology.

monday 20th NDM

OMG! Number of UK text messages falls for first time

the classic text message seems to have passed its prime as web based IM services take over,

after two decades of changing the English language and creating millions of pound to the mobile phone industry, the number of text messages have fallen in the uk for the first time.

because of whatsapp and snapchat the number has fallen by 7bn, making that 145bn sent last year

Paul lee says , mobile phone use its still strong as trillions of messages will be sent on services such as whatsapp and snapchat etc.

I believe that text messages are becoming obsolete as we all have internet plans and IM allows you to add smileys and photos and videos free of charge and also allows you to know when your message has been read, it creates a synergy of the three platforms, text, video and audio.

ALVARADO

Django unchained is about a slave, who befriends a white hitman, and they help eachother throughout the film, django wants to be freed and the white man wants to kill certain people, there is alot of violence in the fuim, however this film subverts the stereotypes of all white people hating black people back in those times.
in terms of alvardos theory this films fits in with it, django is portaged as dangerous because he is a killer in the movie, he is also pitied when he is shown as a slave and when he misses his family.

12 years a slave is about a free black man, who is fairly wealthy, who gets kidnapped and turned into a slave, at first he doesn't realise how this could happen, but then he realises the harsh truth, he however is brave and doesn't accept the fact that he will be a slave forever so he talks back to authority and causes fights to survive.

platforms that fit the steriotype:

TELEVISION

this is a video on US news, which shows a black man being very humorous,

FILM:

will smith hitch trailer, showing black american being houmourus

what is post colonialism?

In the 19th and early 20th century, Britain and other European held colonial empires in, Africa, Asia and South America.

Colonist produced media which made colonialism seem natural, they bought a civilising influence to colonised countries

Post colonialism emphasises the importance of the cultural, economic, political, and military dominance of its past

The absence of non white images in the media visually suggests the dominance of the white culture.

orientalism 

EDWARD SAID '95

it is a perspective that the east and Orient are representations of both fear and fascination.

DIASPORA

Diaspora Identity is the result of forced or voluntary migration

People experience and sense of belonging to a culture which is 'other' to the dominant culture of tghe country of residence.

ALVERADO '87

black communtiy four types

The humorous 

exotic or sexually promiscuous

the pittied

the dangerous

Black Mirror

What is the message of Black Mirror: The National Anthem

The series brings to light the fact that when it comes to a national crisis that not only the government would be involved due to technology now a days the audiences or citizens of the public are more in control of we want to watch and see, especially if its a desensitised topic such as pornography.
In the episode we saw N&DM being used such as YouTube and twitter, YouTube was used to upload the video of the princes' message, this allowed the terrorist to upload the video anonymously and without it being  gate-kept. one of the prime-ministers colleagues mentioned that it was trending on twitter which made it impossible to censor from the public as the internet is decentralised.

XMAS NEW AND DIGITAL MEDIA STORY 4

Sky to open movie rental service to non-subscribers

sky is to open its movie rental service to non-subscribers for the first time, looking to compete more directly with video-on-demand services including Netflix, Amazon's LoveFilm and Tesco's Blinkbox.

The pay-TV broadcaster intends to make an initial 1,200 titles, including Man of Steel and The Hangover 3, available via an app on Youview and Roku set-top boxes.

Sky Store, which charges £3.49 for a new release and up to £1.99 for a classic, has proved to be popular with Sky customers.

I believe this is a great idea from sky as it is a merge of the internet style streaming services and their normal satellite services also this is a good comeback to TV and will keep it contemporary for years to come, the prices aren't bad for the movies and the titles are newer than most streaming sites and for this service you do not need to be tied to a subscription just pay per view which can be attractive to people who don't use it ALOT or don't want a huge bill at the end of every month. this idea alone wont really be good enough to entice people to buy sky subscriptions if they don't have one already however the fact that they made it available to non subscribers combats this and allows them to compete with netflix etc. i think sky will continue to merge all technologies as they come out so as a sky customer you will not be left out.

XMAS NEW AND DIGITAL MEDIA STORY 3

Page 3 is demeaning and regressive - Eleanor Mills of the Sunday Times.

In a radio interview yesterday, she revealed that she has raised the matter within Rupert Murdoch's News UK, the publisher of both titles:

"I'm on the record as being opposed to Page 3. I think it's demeaning to women and I'm really not a fan and I've said this in meetings at News International - sorry News UK - and that's the view I hold…

I think Page 3 feels quite regressive. I think it feels very kind of 70s. I have two daughters of my own who, when they open up the Sun and they see it, they're like, 'mum, why is this woman not wearing a top?'"

Im a bit on both sides of this argument as on one hand Page 3 can seem very lighthearted and if you keep it out of sight its out of mind, however is pornography really needed on one of britain most biggest newspapers? is it even necessary when the internet is full of these kinds of things anyway. from personal experiences from a young age it makes young boys think that women are just their to be sex objects and this is not acceptable, but at the end of the day if it isn't illegal then can it really be such a harm?

Mandy loyal says "page 3 is very demeaning to woman. In todays wold where nudity is available to anybody it is pointless, it was probably fun back in the day but whats the point now?"

"It desensitises men its mainstream and its become too common, it definitely changes mens views towards women", says Nicky Loyal.

XMAS NEW AND DIGITAL MEDIA STORY 2

LG 'to exit traditional PC market' amid declining sales and profit squeeze

Korea's LG Electronics is said to be preparing to exit the traditional PC market, as worsening margins and sales make it uneconomic, presaging a shift to tablets, smartphones and "hybrid" PCs.
There will still be a need for traditional PCs for years yet, such as applications for PC gamers and enterprises. But it doesn't make sense to put more resources into the money-losing business."
LG includes PCs in its "Home Entertainment" division, which also includes TVs. It has made no mention of its PC business except to say that there has been "slow demand" and that it has focused instead on "profitability operations".

• HP, Lenovo, Dell, Acer and Asus – ship between 4m and 13m PCs per quarter, and collectively have more than 60% of the Windows PC market, leaving slim margins for other companies.
• LG's management has instituted a policy in which all of its divisions have to become profitable by 2016, or face closure.
• LG has seen its PC shipments almost halve over the past three years, from 1.65m in 2010, to 1.48m in 2011, to 0.94m in 2012.

Lg seem to be exiting the traditional PC market and entering one full of hybrids and tablets, this raises much concern to to what will happen to pc's in the next 10 years, will they become obsolete? as we know tablets and other mobile devices are become more then capable of meeting our daily needs for escapism and surveillance and other types of uses and gratifications. I feel like if its what they need to do to keep their company running then fair enough, however, i still feel that pc's are needed for that full control of powerful applications unlike tablets with limited features battery life etc.
desktops and laptops now seem to be becoming something for more niche applications, ie, for use of editing if your a film maker, or for the use of recording sound if your a producer Other things that dont need the processing power a PC can give will most likely switch to tablets or hybrids.

XMAS NEW AND DIGITAL MEDIA STORY 1

Snapchat reacts to hacking group releasing millions of phone numbers

Snapchats users security has been compromised due to a security flaw allowing anonymous group called SnapchatDB to post millions of snapchat users number on the web using the Find Friends option, They first acknowledged this flaw several months ago so why was it not fixed? They claimed they had implemented safeguards to “make it more difficult” for people to match up user names and phone numbers, which they conceded “theoretically possible”.

Soon later SnabchatDB uploaded its database of 4.6million users.

Snapchat regularly refers to this as abusing our service however are they just being lazy, their problem was pointed out months ago and the option to opt out of find friends was only implemented now, not even a full fix of the problem, so users who are new or unfamiliar with snapchat or technology in general will still be vunerable to their information being posted on the internet exposed to spam and abuse.

Overall I believe that due to this only being phone numbers it isn’t as big of a deal as if it were to be addresses and more personal information, so in this case snapchat is not being blamed as hard, I don’t see why SnapchatDB would even have any reason to post this data, is it to point out snapchats flaws? Humiliate them? Or just prove something to them selves…