Thursday 1 May 2014

Plan for essay

The world first heard about the death of Michael Jackson from the online gossip website TMZ
How has new and digital media changed the ways in which information reaches audiences and what are the implications (48 marks) 

New technology
- iPads and smartphones: give a statistic (Convergence) 
- Broadband speed - 3G, 4G - updated - video content 
- Impacted T.V news - CNN, BBC


  • Money aspect' The Sun & The Times= PAYWALL. Daily Telegraph and The Guardians= FREE we receive information through Twitter for free
  • 80/20 rule: Paretos Law: 80% audience and 20% institutions 
  • Bumler&Katz: Surveillance (using media to get what we need) e.g we don't need to watch the weather man on the news, can just see how the weather is on our smartphones 
  • NewsValues: Galtung&Ruge: what used to be considered as important has changed due to N&DM. **Immediacy** QUICKER news spreaded out. Print and TV report in numerous of ways. Celebrities death news on twitter' e.g: Paul Walker-> twitter. 
  • UGC: if someone puts a bad comment on The Guardian, they remove it straight away as they don't want people reading that. This links to Marxism: Institutions have control of what we view. Hegemony still lives!

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