2010
Tunisia was the first country to revolt
Ben Ali dictator of the country
Police state
Censorship and corruption
muhammed buazizi burnt alive, protest censored
you cant be individual and have a personality with ben ali
he rigged elections and tourtured
bloggers could face tourture
copy cat caused riots
activists need support
tried to hack the union website to gather people at Muhammed square
live streaming on phones
riots against ali shouting get out
protesters were shot dead 150 died
25% of people had broad band and 90% had phones
2 million facebook users
failed pr campaign by ben ali
internet is decentralised
AL-jazeera covered the story so word got to other countries and other reviolutions where made
Monday, 16 December 2013
Monday, 9 December 2013
Essay
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 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, 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.
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 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, 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.
Monday, 25 November 2013
Some parts of africa have been connected to the internet, africa could be changed hugely if the internet takes of
The internet could be considered a brain, one of the smartest in the world.
"the web is connecting humanity" - tim berners lee
HAVE SAND HAVE NOTS
The internet could be considered a brain, one of the smartest in the world.
"the web is connecting humanity" - tim berners lee
HAVE SAND HAVE NOTS
- 2 billion of us are online
- Bill gate states it "how man kind communicates"
- EMPOWERING TOOL (Al Gore)
- challenge authority VS. spying sensorship
internet and levelling...
The web allows information to be shared for free
- wikipedia aloows knowledge to be shaped together (involvement)
- The well - withoutthis facebook twitter would not have been possible
The internet has been compared to the industrial revolution, being just as or even more important than it.
wikipedia - accuracy free ordinary people, undercuts authority
LIBERTARIANISM ~(hippie mentality )
- ushahihi- posting up examples of riots and abuse
- The web and the internet are two different things
- 1965 emails where made
- the story of the internet started a century ago
tim berners gave the internet away for free and made no profit
The us military came up with the idea of the internet
- URL - unique address for a document
- HTML - the universal language of the internet
99 - nAPSTER WAS CREATED ALLOWING MUSIC TO BE ILLEGALLY DOWNLOADED, it went viral and everybody broke the law for free music.
UGC - 2005 youtube allows anyone to be seen
Why Mail Online's 'terracotta army' is winning the digital war
the mail onlines following is huge and succesfull
"They certainly appear to be winning the digital war in terms of traffic volume, and by a considerable margin. Unfortunately, as with all armies, maintaining discipline is often problematic."
One eye-popping statistic is that the staffing has increased from 300 in September last year to 460 now (of which 100 are based in the US)
there is also controversy over the nature of the site's content which attracts the most hits - the so-called "sidebar of shame".
It is replete with under-dressed celebrities not doing much of interest and not saying anything worthwhile. But it is undeniably popular. Gossip and glamour sell.
So there is an obvious disconnect between the Mail print titles and Mail Online's most-read content. It is a bold strategy and, thus far, it has been very successful.
I believe that the mail online has been able to adapt to the change in platforms very swiftly and successfully and with more ease than any other paper, this is why they are more successful than any others.
NDM 25/11/13
Virgin Galactic to accept Bitcoin for space flights
Richard branson accepts the BitCoin currency as a form of payment for his space shuttle experience.
BitCoin is a crypto currency which is solely based on the internet and has no central bank, they currency is formed by algorithmic problems being solve by BitCoin miners, some people call bit coin a highly unstable currency, however some say its the currency that can stop inflation, bit coins has reached lows of under 100$ and last week hit a high of 700$ per bit coin.
Richard branson states, “I have invested in some bitcoins myself and find it fascinating how a whole new global currency has been created,” Branson said. “For people who can afford to invest a little in bitcoins, it’s worth looking into.”
Flights on Virgin Galactic cost $250,000; passengers can cancel up to three months before departure
I believe that this is a great idea, however branson might be making a huge loss, as it is a time consuming process to convert btc into us dollars and during this time he the worth of bitcoin may drop.
Bitcoin seems like a promising currency however, i dont really see any use for it then to make more money that already exists, i have my self invested in btc only to make more gbp, notable thing btc has been used for is the transaction of drugs anonymously etc... so this could have stained its name
Monday, 18 November 2013
NDM SUMMARY 14/11/13
16/9/13 pirated and illegal downloading of music
23/9/13 Social media: $10.5bn for 140 characters? Twitter floats. #bargain
30/9/13: IOS 7 BUG
21/10/13: Argos MyTablet review
4/11/13:TV Christmas adverts battle moves online as shops target social media.
11/11/13: Abandon digital radio switchover plans, stations tell minister.
18/11/13:Sun Online finds it hard to hit the net.
Crowdfund this: Rubicon's £200 3D scanner.
WWW: Good range of storys, fairly consist work through out the weeks
EBI: must do 2 storys EVERY week, and my comment on the story's should be more in depth.
Sun Online finds it hard to hit the net
Sun Online finds it hard to hit the net.
The first figures since the paper put up its paywall show a heavy 30% drop in audience, despite the promise of goals on demand
- Sun Online had a digital total of 6,244,489
- 2,389,764 arriving by smartphone or pad alone
- with a unique total at 4,188,720
The Sun seem to be basing there business model on football fans, with prices of football tickets and tv subscribtions being at an all time high, it would be very hard for football fans to keep up with all these subscriptions, however due to the fact that they are making money of the users and not the advertiseing adds a benefit to the payway, also they would make substantially more money from their readers so this means the 30% drop may not have affected their revenue as much.
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