Globalisation

Group 1 - Is our news influence by American cultural imperialism? 


The news that we gain is from is influenced by America as it relates to what america and their lifestyle. For example one of the main things that have been taken from  American culture imperialism would be the 24 hour news. This is something that American started with that England now follow for example they have now created 24 hour news such as BBC 24 hour, sky news etc. However British people want to consume British new so not all news channels focus on American cultural imperialism.

Group 2 - Has the increased globalisation of news improved the audience experience? How why? 
The increase in globalisation of news improve the audience experience as they are now able to view live live footage. This gives the effect that audiences see exactly what has happened this make the new more real as they see the real life footage, this can be given through citizen journalists. This is because news can travel much faster than before meaning their are more ways of news travelling, like word of mouth etc this make news travel faster as their are many people globally. The only problem with receive news like this is that its not always reliable. Having false news being spread can be quite embarrassing for the person who has present the false news.

Group 3 - Has globalisation benefited or damaged major news institution? How? Why? 
Benefits as globalisation will mean that it will be cheaper for institutions, as most of the money an institution has will be wages of journalists. By having globalisation new this means that institution can use other journalists work to find out what is happening in other parts of the world. 

Both benefited and damaged major news institutions, a major benefit is that they now do not need to pay to have a lot of staff as globalisation makes quick easy links between countries and journalist and also encourages citizen journalism to help cover news that journalist may not have seen or been able to report. But the damaging effects of globalisation is that the news that is sent in from citizen journalist may not be as reliable or professionally done as the news institution would have done themselves. Also globalisation has increased news institutions competition as globalisation makes them compete with other news institutions globally which therefore makes it harder for the major institution to be seen or heard on a global scale, which means they could potentially lose some of their audience.

Homework

Immediacy: has it happened recently?
Due to new and digital media social networking site. For example twitter, phone apps etc. news that I posted on twitter gets old very quickly is more important than ever due to news breaking on Twitter or elsewhere online. However, this in turn changes the approach of other news sources such as newspapers as the news will probably already be broken by the time the paper is published so different angles might be required.

Familiarity: is it culturally close to us in Britain?
I guess with new and digital technology we have become more globally aware of news stories which affect other countries both big and small, U.K. users of the internet could also go to U.S. news sites. I believe that nowadays due to technology we are only interested in stories which are big in the U.S. or has some sort of British individual being affected, the more British people affected then the more it'll be covered by from several online sites aimed at the U.K.

Amplitude: is it a big event or one which involves large numbers of people?
this has been through new and digital media and the growth as it is a big event, this means that their are more people that will know. This gives the effect that their will be more people that are concerned, due to have raw footage that is seen to be more realistic as it will be quite shaky and not perfectly still. The footage will be edited to make sure that only the important bit are shown to audiences. 

Frequency:  did the event happen fairly quickly?
This is something that happens on a regular bases, it happens quickly. This is normally recorded on things such as phones. Once this has been filmed the scene has normal been blocked off this mean once the reporter arrive at the scene they while the investigation is going on. 

Unambiguity: is it clear and definite?
New and digital technology now confuses people meaning that the forum ideas and that could possibly happen. 

Predictability: did we expect it to happen?
This is event that occur through new and digital media forms, and this will affect with new as it immediately as the new is old who has spoken about it.  


Surprise: is it a rare or unexpected event?
Usually a rare or unexpected event would go viral through social media

Continuity: has this story already been defined as news?

Elite nations and people: which country has the event happened in? Does the story concern well-known people?
Negativity: is it bad news?
Balance: the story may be selected to balance other news, such as a human survival story to balance a number of stories concerning death

Questions

Question 2 - 

Why are media products that represent outsider, such as vampire films, so popular? 

Within both media text their are use of outsiders, in both cases this is vampires. Vampires are popular amongst audiences, is that they don't fit into society. 

Vampire film are popular amongst the audience as they are shown as being different. An example of this is let the right one in the trailer attracts th audience aswell as eclipse as they both have characters that are seen as being outsiders. The audience are attracted to this as they are apples to it it's the auidnces pleasure. 

Vampires have their own personal identity which is said by Blummer as their is a diversion in the eclipse trailer.

Outsiders are people that don't fit in their are many stereotypes for that don't fot in. For example Doctor Who this can relate to both the media text as Doctor Who is seen as mysterious amoungst audiences. Outsiders are seen as being different from other people in society. 

An example of normal society and outsider that are interacting together is the vampire dairies. The vampire dairies contain normal people and then vampires, the vampires have been presented in the stereotypical way audience believe vampires to be. 

Vampires are seen to have more power which is said my Dyer. 

Question 3 - 

I think having an official and unofficial website do contribute to a film box office success. For example the eclipse trailer comes from the relight saga that have already been published as book. This means that audiences already know what is expected as they have read the books. This also mean that thee loose already have a fan base 

WWW and EBI

WWW- You've picked out some good details in Q1.

EBI LR - You need to read and answered the question. You didn't mention  outsider once in question 2. 
- refer to a range of media text
- Re- write Q2+Q3 

Questions

1) What is meant by the term ‘citizen journalist’?

Citizen journalism is playing a active role tho can be in collecting reporting analysing information from the news. 

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.

Comments sections
Forums
Allowing videos and photos to be sent in
Twitter to message or send info one to one with a journalist

4) What is one of the main differences between professionally shot footage and that taken first-hand (UGC)?

5) What is a gatekeeper?

The definition of a gatekeeper is a person and the amount of control they have. For example it is when what is decided to be in the news and what is not. They have control over what can be shown and what can't to the public. 

6) How has the role of a gatekeeper changed?

7) What is one of the primary concerns held by journalists over the rise of 

Article

theguardian.com/digital-tribes/media-measurement

This new digital media story is about the advertising and how the recession has effected the way advertising yikes place now. 

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/10/flappy-bird-creator-takes-game-down

This article is about how the game has been taken down

2 - Another article is about Facebook and the drinking dares has caused many deaths. For example on the bbc it was shown that a male from Ireland clapsed  after drinking a mixture of different alcohol. 

Homework - Build the Wall Analysis

Section 1 

Within the first section of the article, I believe that David is talking about both newspapers and the internet. He is using them and comparing them for example stating things about each for example internet is free unlike newspapers as customers may have to pay for certain once. Accessing the new on the internet can be done through news websites like the bbc. However reading news from a news papers is totally different thing from reading new from a laptop screen for example some people may still want to read an actual newspaper than finding out the new over the internet. This goes along with the fact ever though we have access to new on the internet for quit a while help still read newspapers at the minute.

Section 2 

In this section of the newspaper article is about how time and how it is a enemy for newspapers.  however, and the wariness and caution with which the Times and The Post approach the issue reveal not only how slow industry leaders have been to accurately assess the realities, but how vulnerable one national newspaper is to the other. Should the Times go behind a pay curtain while the Post remains free, or vice versa. I believe that from this article it shows that web sites have combined to batter paid print circulation figures, more people are reading the product of America’s newspapers than ever before. Certainly more of them are reading the Times (nearly 20 million average unique visitors monthly) and the Post (more than 10 million monthly unique visitors)

Section 3 

This section shows the percentage of sun reader which is 10 per cent of the existing 210,000 Baltimore Sun reader. The questions that this raises is why pay for subscription for example who pay a subscription rate less than half the price of home delivery, or roughly $10, would represent about $2.5 million a year. This section is all about the pay wall and wanting people to pay.

Section 4 

Lastly within this section is all about how having the pay wall can be a risk. For example many things will be attached to this example of this are without local readers getting free national, international, and cultural reporting from the national papers,


Overall, in my opinion I wouldn't want to pay for the news when I am able to access it online for free.  People still access the new through newspapers which seem to be dying however are still being produced which shows that people still read them. The whole pay wall situation is a risk as some people may want to pay however me personal wouldn't want to.

- If news were not free, there would be enough people willing to pay for it to cover the cost of producing it. But suppose the New York Times suddenly started charging for online access; although it is a great newspaper, I probably wouldn't pay for it. There are just too many free alternatives that are almost as good. Even if (for example) no other online news source were as good as the Times, the remaining news sources will collectively fill the gap.
The economic parlance, you have goods which are near perfect substitutes. If I can't read Paul Krugman's column, I can go read some other noble prize winning economist's latest available(and accessible) column. Likewise, if I can't read Thomas Freidman, I can get the same kind of hype from a used car lot advertisement.

This statement shows, that news papers companies may have to have change their option to have for example free online news. Rather than producing actual newspapers as this cost money and news on the internet can be accessed for free. 

The lack of imagination on display in this article is jaw-dropping.

If, in five years, any part of this article can be looked back upon as anything other than a completely wrong-headed assessment of the state of the industry, if a reasonable person will be able to look back from 2014 on any of the suggestions and say either, "That would have been a good thing to try" or "Thank goodness they did that," I will eat a Baltimore Orioles hat while standing naked in Times Square.

#14 Posted by King Kaufman on Sat 18 Jul 2009 at 04:13 AM

This comment shows that newspapers aren't dying as still available to the public, if newspapers had dyed out then no newspapers would be produced and everybody would get their news from teh internet.