Weekly NDM stories

Apple's iPhone 'lock-out’ patent could end texting while driving
A new automatic system to preventing phone use while driving could ‘change the culture’ of texting addiction, say experts

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/apples-iphone-lock-out-patent-could-end-texting-while-driving

summary of story: this article talks about the a new technology proposed by Apple would seek to address the dangerous and ubiquitous problem of drivers who use their phone behind the wheel, according to experts.

'distraction with an automated system that would disable certain smartphone functions when an iPhone user is driving.'

Key info: 

•  35% and increase the likelihood of a crash by 23 times for commercial drivers.
• penalty of three points on the driver’s licence and a fine of £100.

My view : i think that even if you cut off some functionality, it doesn't necessarily remove the distraction the phone causes for drivers. and also simply think that there is no greater safety system than simply turning off the phone while driving.!

Media News | IT Staff Shortages Raise Cyber Crime Risk

http://news.sky.com/story/1050981/it-staff-shortages-raise-cyber-crime-risk

The  number of IT staff have not increased in line with the growth of the internet. This shows how the intenet has expanded rapidly and has revolutionised so quickly that people and institutions aren't able to keep up. There is a main need for phsychologists, law enforcers and technical staff but most people dont meet the standards or requirements they need which therefore means that website and etc are more vulnerable to hackers.

Class Presentation topics

Social Media ( Twitter ) 

Social media is one of the most developed fields in new and digital media - connecting people wide world.

- 500 Million users 2012
- Information easily obtained e.g Arab Spring in 2011 ( Egypt )

Audience play a passive role - have more control over what the viewers consume

Traditional media - no longer popular ( faster news update on social networks than newspapers )

'HASHTAGS'  - allows audience to form a groups and become one of the wider social group members.

DISCOVER PAGE -  News worthy, news are picked out from news feeds and if they are news valid they are then selected.

- Allows institution to make more users talk and tweet about a specific topic.

Using new/digital media, couple of the guys one names Slim Mahmood he managed to hack the union website - got a crowd together using Facebook and Tunisia's bloggers . Also, he used Twitter to guide and warn people about which road to take to avoid police officers. They met up in mohammed ali square to protest. Videos ( online live streaming ) within days went viral.

Facebook And Democracy 

'Global Village' 

Age demographic 25/34 yrs.

Facebook and other social network have changes lifestyles - some positive impact of Facebooks

- E.g. Barack Obama used it for his campaign.

The internet is an 'empowering Tool' ( Algore)

- 5 million users in Egypt.

evolution of internet being in favour Tunisian people managed to captured evidence by using their mobile phones and online live stream
- Protest videos and images went viral ( nature of New/digital media) 
- This was then picked up by Al Jazeera 
- People responded and reacted - copy cat demonstration. 

Music industry 

Spotify - commercial music streaming service ' 2008

- 20 millions songs 

- 24 million users 

Advantage - takes up less space on your device 

                 -  Make your own playlist for free 

ITUNES 

Apple - 2001 

Piracy - illegal downloading songs 

hard for artist to produce more music 

Benefit of New and Digital media in music industry 

- Consumers can now be producers of their own music 

- make music for free 

- advertisement free on social networks 

- you tube - getting more viewers tuned in 

Film Industry 

Prime example : Netflix 

- second popular on demand streaming 

- watch movies, Tv drama and programmes of your fav

- other examples......Blinkbox

audience

- all different age ranges but mostly young adults 

Cinema revenues had decreased

people no longer wait for programmes to be on...... watch on smart phones. 

Technology have impacted film industry negatively 

Institution 

- internet have killed the video store.

- UGC is available for audience to shar e their opinion while they are watching the programmes. 

- monthly change increased by £1 ( monthly £6.50)

Purist

- audience having control over what they want to watch when they want to watch the programmes and movies. 

Marxist - Hegemonic leader 

- scheduling - impacting on the traditional TV scheduling.  

Music Industry 

Spotify - commercial music streaming service ' 2008

- 20 millions songs 

- 24 million users 

Advantage - takes up less space on your device 

                 -  Make your own playlist for free

Impact

- Artist not making profit for what they produce.
- apps like spotify ruin it for them
- CD revenue dropped by 11.7%

Plurist

- easy access to internet, get music and listen to them when audience heart desires

SKY 

November 1990

owed mostly by Rubert Morduck

- Went on demand 2007

Audience - Film: young adults. couples film lovers 

Impact - time scheduling - can watch and record programes to watch later when they want. 

Music Industry 

- technology have changed everything in the music industry
 - because of the internet apps e.t.c artist don't make as much profit as before !
- media company now make more money

Youtube - artist nowbeing succesful through the use of new and digital media.

- examples like sean kingston and Justin bebier

Film Industry 

Prime example : Netflix 

- second popular on demand streaming 

- watch movies, Tv drama and programmes of your fav

- other examples......Blinkbox

audience

- all different age ranges but mostly young adults 

Cinema revenues had decreased

people no longer wait for programmes to be on...... watch on smart phones. 

Technology have impacted film industry negatively 

Institution 

- internet have killed the video store.

- UGC is available for audience to shar e their opinion while they are watching the programmes. 

- monthly change increased by £1 ( monthly £6.50)

Purist

- audience having control over what they want to watch when they want to watch the programmes and movies. 

Marxist - Hegemonic leader 

- scheduling - impacting on the traditional TV scheduling.  

Facebook And Democracy 

'Global Village' 

Age demographic 25/34 yrs.

Facebook and other social network have changes lifestyles - some positive impact of Facebooks

- E.g. Barack Obama used it for his campaign.

The internet is an 'empowering Tool' ( Algore)

- 5 million users in Egypt.

evolution of internet being in favour Tunisian people managed to captured evidence by using their mobile phones and online live stream
- Protest videos and images went viral ( nature of New/digital media) 
- This was then picked up by Al Jazeera 
- People responded and reacted - copy cat demonstration. 

BBC iplayer 

Ownership and control

- have full control because of the TV licence
- charge people 55p
- wanted to extend the licence fees so its covers BBC iplayer

BBC director general Tony

Audience

- not many people use traditional way
- adapt to new and digital media

- more demanding, no schedules - easier for audience

- effects time shifting

Facts : TV - people are charged 7.65p
online its only 55p 

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Social media used to recruit new wave of British jihadis in Syria

Messages and photos posted on sites such as Twitter and Facebook provide inside track on motives and activities 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/15/social-media-recruit-british-jihadis-syria-twitter-facebook

Summary of the story:  This article talks about the one routinely perches himself on a bright pink exercise ball, the other opts for a rickety office chair. Over days, weeks and months they have used their computer screens as a portal into one of the bloodiest conflicts of the modern age in what they say is an effort to understand, engage and give a voice to those young men who choose to leave the western democracies they call home to join the insurgents in Syriafighting the Assad regime.

Key infor: 

• In December estimated 1,900 people from western Europe had travelled to Syria to fight, 
• social media has kept those who have joined the jihad in Syria in close contact with what is going on in the UK.

Jihad, Syria and social media: how foreign fighters have documented their war

From pictures showing a 'five-star jihad' to identifying the most influential sheikhs helping to radicalise foreign fighters, three researchers in a basement at Kings College, London, have tracked and analysed the torrent of social media posts coming from Syria.

No-makeup selfies campaign generates £2m windfall for cancer research

It started with a row at the Oscars, featured the current obsession with "selfies" and rapidly clogged up legions of Facebook streams. Tens of thousands of women, egged on by their friends, shared pictures of themselves without makeup to raise awareness of breast cancer.

By Friday the viral trend had transformed into a fundraising phenomenon, generating a £2m windfall for Cancer Research UK.

The #nomakeupselfies campaign raised the money in just 48 hours, the charity said, with hundreds of thousands of donations from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter users sharing pictures of themselves without makeup and nominating a friend to do the same.

Cancer Research UK said it had not initiated this particular campaign, but was alerted to the #nomakeupselfies trend on Tuesday and began to ask users to add a donation request and text code to their posts. Since then, the money has flooded into the UK charity.

Cancer Research UK's head of social media, Aaron Eccles, said: "We're over the moon. When we do a social media campaign we want to engage as many people as possible, and this has taken off like crazy."

The idea itself appears to have begun last week when American crime author Laura Lippman tweeted a picture of herself without makeup in support of Kim Novak, the 81-year-old actor whose looks had been criticised at the Oscars. The theme was picked up by celebrities and fans of Lippman before spreading more widely.

But for all the unexpected financial success, some commentators question whether it is appropriate or relevant to link the "bravery" of appearing without makeup to the very different challenge of fighting cancer, triggering fierce debates online.

Blogger Yomi Adegoke said: "Thinly veiling vanity as philanthropy more than irks … the pretence these images are for anything other than an onslaught of 'natural beauty' acclamations, coupled with pats on the back for 'fighting the cause' makes the no makeup selfie mania even harder to stomach."

At some point, all the criticism prompted people to remember and then resurrect a previous failed social media campaign – where Cancer Research UK had attempted unsuccessfully to use selfies to raise awareness of breast cancer.

Forget suing filesharers: in 2014, anti-piracy efforts follow the money

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/02/infringing-websites-list-anti-piracy

This article states that taking individuals to court over piracy isn't doing much and so in 2014 there are going to be attempts to follow the revenue generated. That means focusing their efforts on piracy sites, through three main tactics: pressuring search engines to remove links to infringing files and demote piracy sites in their rankings; forcing ISPs to block their customers from accessing those sites; and trying to squeeze their flow of advertising revenues.

An Infringing Website List (IWL for short) was created to gather the URLs of piracy sites and persuade brands, media agencies and ad networks to ensure they're not advertising on them.

The IWL is the result of a three-month pilot in 2013 backed by a host of creative industry bodies – the BPI and IFPI from the music industry, FACT from software, The Publishers Association from books – as well as advertising industry bodies the IAB, ISBA and IPA.

"Disrupting the money unlawful websites make from advertising could make a real difference to the fight against copyright infringement," said creative industries minister Ed Vaizey this week. 

Not everyone agrees that it's such an excellent thing, however. The Pirate Party UK has criticised the initiative, pointing out that the IWL will not be made public, and that even if website owners find they are on it, it is unclear how they can apply to be removed.

I believe that it is a better and more effective way of dealing with piracy however, it won't prevent people trying to download things for free, they may attempt to go around these tactics and won't be prosecuted as everyones focus would mainly be on the sites as a whole and their owners who create the filesharing sites.

WiFi routers could be exploited for huge internet attacks in UK – study

Millions of routers worldwide vulnerable to digital criminals, 800,000 of which are in the UK, with potential for serious disruption

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/01/uk-wifi-routers-internet-attacks  

Millions of routers worldwide vulnerable to digital criminals, 800,000 of which are in the UK, with potential for serious disruption

As many as 24m routers across the world can be used by cybercriminals to launch massive attacks on internet infrastructure, while simultaneously disrupting home connections and costing communications companies dearly.

Research shown exclusively to the Guardian showed 800,000 of those routers are based in the UK, opening up the potential for serious disruption of the country’s data networks.

Over a single day this year, Nominum said it recorded 5bn requests for such domains. This produced 12 terabytes of traffic, which is a significant amount of data flying around the internet solely for malicious means.

Nominum said over a single day in February more than 5.3m of the routers running the feature were used to generate attack traffic in Asia. An attack in January used up 70% of an internet providers Domain Name System servers.

New case study question 13: presentation

New case study question 9-12

9. 9. Consider the effects so far, and possible effects in the future, on media institutions involved in your case study (media production).

The effects so far on media institutions such as Apple are quite positive. Due to globalisation Apple have become a world rebound company in mobile technology as well as computers (which makes them a respected insinuation). Although they are a very wealthy and successful company, most people see them in a positive despite their wealth being on par with the the company Goldman Sachs - who most people see as "greedy money grabbers" http://www.towardfreedom.com/globalism/2713-the-apple-connection-globalization-and-outsourcing 

People continue to be loyal to Apple. However, their good reputation outweighs the production lines of foreign labour they impose in factories with workers not realy earning that much money. This could have a negative implication for the future as if they continue to grow at the rate in which they are doing so now they may continue to  employ cheap workers - even secretly - and this is usually seen as unethical and could be likened to sweatshops in India that produce Nike clothing. 

This may also apply to Samsung as they are continuing to build their success and are growing more rapidly. 

Another possible effect in the future is that of the fact that the companies may have plateued and may not be able to go beyond their technological advancements.

10. What issues may there be regarding media effects and /or regulation/ censorship as a result of changes due to new and digital media?

Some issues regarding censorship and regulation would be the regulation of jailbreaking. Due to the internet being much more widely used and becoming more familiar - hackers are becoming more common and jailbreaking iPhones could have negative ramifications on Apple. It allows people to download apps without paying and the agreement of Apple. Nonetheless, people's knowledge about technology is moving just as fast as the developers and will therefore be unable to stop them from doing so. This is turn could affect Apples revenue. 

A bigger issue regarding censorship and regulation would be the capabilities of using mobile internet. As the use of smart phones increases, developers aim to make mobile internet as fast as they can to satisfy their consumers. This then impacts the use of social networking which before was accessed by computers, now people are able to use them on the go and share and "tweet" what they are witnessing at the time. A good example of this is the use of Twitter in the Arab spring as well as footage being filmed from their mobile phones and shared. The rise of UGC means gatekeepers are as able to censor things from the public domain.

11. Are there any cross-cultural factors and /or effects of globalisation involved in the impact of new technology on your case study?  E.g. the internet has been said to be ‘globalising culture’ through its promotion of the English language.

 Are there any cross-cultural factors and /or effects of globalisation involved in the impact of new technology on your case study?  E.g. the internet has been said to be ‘globalising culture’ through its promotion of the English language.

Effects of globalisation are reinforced by the fact that the American company Apple have dominated the technology market and employ people from many other poorer countries such as China. This empowers the US and allows them to remain a dominant country. This also reinforces American Hegemony. It also promotes the idea of Westernisation among poorer countries and encourages them to jump on the band wagon and start using smart phones. However, this allows other smart phone companies such as HTC and Nokia who aren’t as dominant to become market leaders in poorer countries due to their affordability.

12. Consider theoretical perspectives in relation to the impact of new/ digital media in your case study.  E.g. Representation of certain groups as a result of changes, Marxism & Hegemony, Liberal Pluralism, colonialism, audience theories etc.



Consider theoretical perspectives in relation to the impact of new/ digital media in your case study.  E.g. Representation of certain groups as a result of changes, Marxism & Hegemony, Liberal Pluralism, colonialism, audience theories etc.

The impact of new and digital media has had an impact on Marxism and Hegemony, which is primarily due to the fact that market leaders are rising to significance globally and doesn’t allow other competitors to come though. This is especially evident with Apple and Samsung which exert western hegemony on other countries.