Children and the internet: a parent's guide
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/03/internet-children-parents-safety
Summary of the story:
In this article, Jamie Oliver tells us how he's worried about children in society today and social media. He announced to his 3.6 million followers on twitter that he banned his older daughter from using a mobile phone. He states ' i found out that my older daughter set up Instagram account in secret which i wasn't happy about and soon put a stop to it'. Although, it seems quite rich of Jamie and hypercritical for him to say this and but in many families there is constant battle between demands privacy and safety.
Key Statistic or information:
- No under 13 year old are allowed on the sites
- The most recent report on Facebook use [Consumer Reports 2011] found that "of the 20 million minors who use Facebook, 7.5 million were younger than 13 and more than five million were younger than 10".
My View on the story:
I understand where Jamie Oliver is coming from, these social media have had a real negative impact on children in our generation however Jamie's daughter is the only kid in her class not to have a mobile phone, because her daddy doesn't want her to be bullied? Well done Jamie, you've just made your daughter the most bully-prone kid in the whole school. I strongly believe that if you tell a teenager that he or she may not do something, do you really think the teenager stops doing it immediately?
Who says print is dead?
Summary of the story:
Here they discuss,with some strong evident, whether the internet is really killing print. we all know that the 'death of print' have been greatly exaggerated as we still see all this amazing magazine front covers on the shelf at WHS. particularly given the rapid improvement in the quality of digital publications, and the demand for them to do more than merely replicate the content of print titles online. But, regardless of some high-profile print closures in recent years, the stories of doom and gloom in the publishing industry have been tempered by a mini renaissance in independent titles. And old-fashioned paper and ink has an unlikely saviour.
Key Statistic or information:
- A survey in April by Deloitte found that 88% of magazine readers in the UK still prefer to consume articles via print. While half of respondents to its state-of-the-media survey (2,276 UK consumers, aged 14 to 75) owned a smartphone, 35% subscribed to at least one printed magazine in 2011
My View on the story:
For about ten years
or so the internet was developing along nicely, presentation had moved from
plain html to mixed media content and people were coming-up with some really
interesting and creative ideas around presentation:- site design had moved
beyond the style of newspapers and sites. However, The digital edition
which mimics the print media - including those infruriating 'pages' which won't
turn, that has no hyperlinks, no embedded images which might enrich my viewing;
in short, the limitations of the print media but made worse.
The
fact that i can view whatever i want on blogs etc without being charged for the
content i get is the reason why print was dead to me 3 years ago.
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