NDM stories summarys

14/09/2013 - ' we have abandoned our children to the internet'
22/09/2013 - Iphone5c
30/09/2013 - Twitter Files for thank giving IPO
04/10/2013 - Is it ok to photograph strangers on a train?
14/10/2013 - Miley Cyrus
03/11/2013 - Children and the internet - Parents Guide  and Who says Print is Dead ?
17/11/2013 - Mail Online - UK's most popular  and Snapchat rejects $3bn Facebook buyout
Total  = 10 

WWW:  I have variety of NDM stories such as print, neswpaper and broadcast and E-media stories posted up on my blog for nearly every week. This will be beneficial as it will allow me to recap the exam question and gain strong knowledge around news and digital media. 
EBI: I need to start highlighting the key words and use media terminology when giving my own view on the story. 

NDM weekly story

Mail Online is UK's most popular news brand across PC, mobile and tablet

http://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2013/nov/14/mail-online-news-brand

Summary of the story:

- Based on this article story, it states that the Mail Online was the most popular news brand across Pc, mobile and tablets in September due to the fact that the total digital population across the country rose to 4.7 million, according to news reports. However, for too long, digital audience measurement has been considered un trustworthy because of the statistics being misunderstood and misquoted. It states that this digital measures the software and hardware instead of ' real people '.

Key information or statistics:

•  Britain's total digital population rose to 47.3 million people in September, according to new unduplicated figures
• 25% of the Daily Mails traffic is links from the Guardian
•  Those visiting the Mail Online through their PC or laptop accounted for around 67% of its total digital population whilst the number of users accessing Mail Online exclusively by mobile or tablet reached 5.6m in September.

My view on the story:

- When he states 'counting someone who accesses the website through their mobile and a PC as one person.' I totally agree with what he is saying because I myself own a tablet pc and a mobile phone, and the digital audience measurement will give this a '3' due to the fact that they count software's and hardware's instead of real people. This count up is no where accurate.  

- 'Telegraph Media Group and the Guardian are ranked in second and third place respectively'. In my opinion, I think The Guardian holds up pretty well considering it's poor paper circulation.

Snap Chat rejects $3bn Facebook buyout

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/13/snapchat-facebook-buyout-offer-rejected

Summary of the story:

In this article it talks about the new social fad : Snapchat - the fast-growing messaging system, has reportedly rejected a $3bn buyout offer from Facebook. At $3bn Snapchat would be the most expensive acquisition Facebook has ever made.According to the Journal, Evan Spiegel, Snapchat’s 23-year-old co-founder and chief executive, is waiting until early next year before considering any offers in the hope that Snapchat’s numbers will grow enough to justify an even larger valuation.

The company’s valuation has been growing as fast as its user base. In June Snapchat raised $60m from investors that valued the company at $800m. Facebook reportedly offered $1bn for Snapchat earlier this year. Last month top tech blog All Things D reported that the company was in negotiations with China’s Tencent over an investment that would value the firm at over $3.6bn.

Key information or statistics:

• 5 million active users
• Has been downloaded by 9% of US mobile users
• over 350m messages a day

My view on the story:

In my opinion, if I was 23 and offered 3 billion cash I know what I would do lol anyways  You'd have to be the biggest idiot the not accept this deal. Snapchat is like the late 90s  A social app that will have no relevance in three years, especially in such an innovative field. for him to accept this deal would have had a huge positive impact on snapchat.

NDM: UsvsTh3m

Article:Daily Mail quiz powers UsvsTh3m towards 3m users

Why this website is a good idea for newspapers in the digital age?
- The reason why this website is a good idea for newspapers in the digital age is due to the fact that people are sharing their results via social media sites such as twitter and Facebook. ' Users are encouraged to share their scores on USvsTh3m games and quizzes via social media, helping to drive up traffic.' As we know, nearly 80% of the population are signed up on at least one social media sites, and this helps raise awareness of newspapers in the digital age.  Another reason may be because people in the digital age are keen to share with friends what they relate to. "People want to identify with something that reflects their personality and says something about themselves. People were pleased that the Daily Mail hated them."

The Great Leveling

Documentary ( broadcasted on BBC) about the virtual revolution which talks about how the internet has had an impact on  different country's and people all around the world. 

Africa (case study about the web)

• Broadband in Africa, Small town in Ghana which was the first place to access internet.
• Power to people, gives them a voice
• ' Next content to be re-shaped by the media'
• Quote- ' Connecting Humanity' - From Sir Tim Berners-Lee
• Web allows someone to create fans and an audience (UGC - User Generated Content)

Other facts and statistics

• 2 Billion are now online and visit web everyday
• web creates wealth
• creates generation of well knowledge
• Express opinions
• equal voice/potential
• power for the ordinary people
• Breaks the Hierarchy 
• Challenge business models- profit and control

Wiki

• Quote ' Against Wikipedia' - Lee
• Best source on the internet
• Quote - 'Ordinary people shape knowledge together'  - Ory
• Free, open source - anyone can post and edit the information provided
• Wikipedia is used by 65 million people
• blogging's - provides the audience with no limit of self expression  
• 14 million post articles
• Accuracy? on Wikipedia

Bill Gates and Al Gore

•  web in this century is how mankind communicate
• The internet is becoming an empower tool
• Web gives power and reach
• Web is remarking our words
• challenges authority Vs spying/ censorship
• The world wide web has now created a digital divide.
• 40% of men watch porn
• 5 million people use dating websites every month
• West London - where majority of the people use blogs and overall 18 Million people use it.
• Quote- ' Internet powering the brain' - Bill gates

 
Other facts

• 35 million people log on ( UK)
• 8 Million - tracked.
• £Billion a week
• Well ( 1985)

 

Kenya – Ushahidi ( case study ) Web allows you to report abuse.

Kenya public post examples of attacks and abuses towards the public. This then forces the government to intervene and take action on the people who are conducted the abuse towards the public inside of Kenya. This is an example of the power of the web. 

 

 

 

Important dates

 

•  1960 - Libertarianism - Being able to do something without the Governments power, freedom
• 1960 - US military first to use the internet structure
• 1965 - Email was introduced
• 1985 - 'The Well' was created in Sans Francisco 

• 1991 – The first website went online.
  

  ( HTML – computer language, universal language (allowed interaction)
• 1995 - 'Internet Explorer was launched ( Microsoft owned 95% of the market
• 1999 -' napster' was created
• 2005 - The first video was published on ' YouTube'

 

Weekly NDM story

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?

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jun/03/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. 

Web 2.0 Articles...

In the Age of Media Six Questions about Media and Participation

David Buckingham, Professor of Media and Communications at Loughborough University, claim that society and Web has changed through the years, as new technological and equipment has changed the way people think now days. Professor Buckingham claim that before in the past there was just one person or a specific people that just controlled the social media people saw in the past, as that they only had the right to say and do what they felt like, so people didn’t really have a chose on the media in society back then, he also says that the ads we watch has brought a bigger and broader media revolution, as a result that everyone has power and controller in the media in society now.  He says that blogs and forums give people the opportunities to give their own views and opinion in the media. That now day people do need to be a critic, that ordinary people can say what they like in society, which has effect the media a lot, as people can accuses and write their options and views anytime and anywhere in the world and that everyone has the freedom to say what they feel like it.  As Facebook and Google are the richest online businesses.   

Key information:

• Much more generated content on the internet
• Everything has changed because of the new technology
• Ordinary people are in control of the internet
• There are no more editors or gatekeepers in control
• People get to say their view on internet to millions on people
• Google and Facebook are the most money making corporation online
• People make their own videos which could be accessed everywhere around the world

Web 2.0 – Participation or Hegemony

Nick Lacey explored the issues that has the Web 2.0 been democratised our access to the media now a days, and has it switched the power from produce to the audience. Lacey says that web 2.0 allow the audience to become produces of the media and their texts, as they can write their opinion and view on YouTube channel and videos (UGC), people can now write their views on blogs and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. People don’t need –people can say or write things in the media now days, as they don’t need a gate keeper. They would be happier to write their opinion and view on the internet as it has such a mass audience online, as they don’t need to pay for certain things in the media, they can just write it and say it. 
Key information:

• No more gatekeepers
• Audiences have become producers
•  Individuals relying on individuals

Participation debates

http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/mm/subscribers/downloads/archive_mm/mmagpast/MM39_Participation_democracy.html 

• One could argue that social networking has opened up opportunities for democracy. Eg The XFactor 2010 series , 15,488,019 million votes were cast by viewers to decided the outcome of the programme. Even though the winners are unlikely to change the world it is an example of media democracy at work. 
• Digital revolution and Web 2.0 have given users the opportunity to communicate ideas globally through the use of social networking
• Political level, Egypt and Libya couldn't have happened without the use of Twitter and Facebook with young people using social networking sites.
• Internet had empowered its users by giving them unparalleled instant and unmediated access to unfolding news stories from a variety of sources. E.g MJ death reports first appeared on Twitter and Facebook.
• Not seen a true democracy in 'Arab Spring' countries.
• Blogging is another way that the media are becoming democratic.

Weekly NDM story

'Miley Cyrus dethrones PewDiePie as world's most popular YouTube channel!'

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/11/miley-cyrus-pewdiepie-youtube-videos






Summery of the Story: Miley Cyrus Twerking, hammer- licking has made her a controversial figure in recent months and have been hugely successful on YouTube. Also, they have compared her to one of the most visited channel of YouTube 'PewDiePie' they state that this ' retains a more loyal audience on Google's video service, with nearly 14.3m subscribers compared to her 2.9m.' Here is just a statistic to show how much the guardians are making a big deal of the fact that Miley is getting all this views on YouTube and ranting whether she's news worthy.

Key statistic or information:

• Miley was the most-watched YouTube channel in the world in September with 270.1m views according to industry site Tubefilter's monthly Top 100 chart
• her monthly view-count leaping 222% compared to August.
• Nearly 14.3m subscribers compared to her 2.9m. 
• Her channel overtook YouTube biggest star in previous months  
• In the US, which claims that 50% of adult American internet users watch music videos online, but that this rises to 81% for 18-29 year-olds.

My view on the story:

Although i haven’t heard anything about PewDiePie channel, but I think it's really interesting to see the size of audience he’s managed to pick up. But the fact that one monster video sent Miley's channel above him also seemed interesting, plus the wider context about music videos' continued importance to YouTube.

In my opinion, the only reason the Guardian can be squirting out a Miley article every hour is that the Miley articles are getting the most clicks. More clicks mean more money for advertising. its Miley Cyrus is now relevant worth a mention the Guardian?

Because Miley Cyrus (with her no-doubt substantial support team) is giving so much attention to being newsworthy in ways which are more intelligent than they may superficially appear.