Alina's Media Blog

PLAN: 1) An introduction of us saying what we're gonna do, and we're gonna list pros and cons 2) Record screen using fraps, going through fake news 3)Separately record a voice over using phone and then transfer the audio file into computer 4)Then over the screen recording, put the voice over audio over it (make sure it is in time though) Alina: Hey guys, so today we're going to be talking about fake news, which is false information under the guise of news reporting.  Honey n Kev: The pros of it is that you get a lot of money from doing fake news, it can be considered as entertainment - making up stories to entertain the audience, like a hobby. Neila: However, in my opinion, I think that fake news is bad and has a negative impact, for example; it can literally spread false information all around the social media and can cause misunderstandings between the people who are involved.  In the screen recording : http://clonezone.link/editc...

The Guardian /Daily mail, two of the most successful news sources in the world ( they are both british) Curated content its fair to say that there is too much happening in the world for us to keep up with it. We can only realistically process a small amount of news. but who should decide? Supply -led content: 'Gate keepers' editors and journalists give us the news that they think is important. In news this would be editors and journalists. An analogy would be radio Dj's playing the songs they want you to listen to. Demand-led content: No 'gate keepers', we decide what's important. we follow the people that are interesting to us and we ignore the rest. An analogy would be creating our own spotify playlist. Clay Shirkey. Cognitive surplus. focuses on describing the free time what individuals have to engage with collaborative activities within new media. Twitter has been around for 11 years, it is a web 2.0 social media site with over 300 million...

N ews values is about how professionals decide on what is newsworthy, how to attract an audience in newspapers, on line and social news.  News values  (1981 study by Galtung and Ruge)  is a criteria used by media outlets e.g newspapers to determine how important stories were; According to former Times and Sunday Times Editor, Harold Evans, a news story: 1.       is about necessary information and  unusual events 2.       should be based on  observable facts 3.       should be an  unbiased  account 4.       should be  free  from the reporter’s opinion  Negativity  - Bad news is always highly more rated than good news, because it's more exciting and interests the readers more. Proximity   - Stories that involve people from their own countries or stories that are close to people geographically....

Madeleine McCann And Shannon Matthews. The Mccans described how they would plan to use the 300,000" this interprets that the McCann family is quite wealthy, Moreover , the daily telegraph uses words such as traumatised , disbelief, tearfully and "deepest darkest chasm"to portray the McCann as innocent and in absolute shock and horror of this tragic event. Also these words represent vulnerability, also the fact that they cuddle and gave a persona to the cuddle cat toy shows how much they are missing her. As a reader , The emotive language used made me feel sympathetic towards the family. She talks about how she cant bare to be parted from her two twins at night to make her look like a wonderful parent however readers might argue with that and say she should've been there the night she disappeared. Shannon-the daily telegraph conveys shannon matthews mother as a stereotypical woman on benefits because she has 7 children to 5 different fathers. Further, '...

Donald Trumps apocryphal invention? -Word/ Term of the year- Fake news: Noun: False, often sensational, Information disseminated under the guise of news reporting. (Made up contents) Most fake news comes from russia because they wanted to swerve the public in favour of Donald and wanted England to leave the EU 2016 Word of the year- Post-Truth: is a political culture in which debate is framed largely by appeals to emotion disconnected from the details of policy, and by the repeated assertion of talking points to which factual rebuttals are ignored. They are very smart and sly with their words. Echo chambers: I n news  media , the term  echo chamber  is analogous to an acoustic  echo chamber  where sounds reverberate in a hollow enclosure. An  echo chamber  is a metaphorical description of a situation in which information, ideas, or beliefs are amplified or reinforced by communication and repetition inside a  defined  system....

Rupert Murdoch: is an american-australian media mogul  His father, Sir Keith Murdoch , had be en a reporter, editor, and senior executive of the  Herald  and  Weekly Times  newspaper publishing company, covering all Australian states except New South Wales. Murdoch thus had full control as Chairman and CEO of global media holding company News Corporation, now the world's second-largest media conglomerate, and its successors, News Corp and 21st Century Fox, after the conglomerate split on 28 June 2013. media mogul-successful businessman or entrepreneur  that controls through personal or via a dominant in any media related context.  news corp and fox tv , these are both conglomerates that own financial news services and wireless media . Why are people scared of him? if he has too much influence of the media the news will be biased.  his fox tv news channel is ...

P aywalls provide businesses with consistent revenue. When people pay a regular monthly or yearly membership fee it is easier how much  to determine how much money you have coming in on an annual basis.  This isn’t always the case if you’re relying on one off payments or purchases for your revenue. This leads to a feast or famine dynamic that many people are unhappy with. Paywalls are useful for protection purposes. Many companies offer services or access to web content for a fee, ie: music streaming services.  Companies selling a products only benefit from creating revenue in a physical location that is only made available to the customer at the point of sale. Businesses focused on the intangible can allow access to their site or services at all times. A  company that does not have tangible inventory benefits from a paywall in place in order to function as an online business to generate higher income.  When a user see's that a site ...

Galtung and Ruge - News Values - Theory. Galtung and Ruge (1973) believed that our perception of what constitutes an event is culturally determined and not a natural occurrence – but they also believed that it related to ‘human culture’ and therefore should not vary too much globally. Their theory argues that the more an event accessed these criteria the more likely it was to be reported on in a newspaper (although the individual factors are inter-related, not independent of one another). An example: in the Western world we are obsessed with celebrities and their lifestyles. David Beckham splits with Posh Spice and on the same day five children are killed in a minibus accident. The tabloids will carry the Beckham’s story on the front page because we as a society have decided that celebrity gossip is more interesting and news worthy than the other story.  These are 12 of the ‘most significant’ news values from the work of Galtung and Ruge: 1.Frequency — short-term events like...

Newspapers can commonly be defined as either a ‘broadsheet’ newspaper or a ‘tabloid’ newspaper. Tabloid: • Feature popular articles that appeal to the masses (i.e. human interest stories and celebrity gossip) • Tone used is informative and informal • Uses jokes and wordplay in headlines • Adverts are aimed towards lower social groups • Use more images than text (image led) • Examples include; The Sun, The Daily Mirror, The Daily Star Broadsheet: • Feature ‘quality’ articles including political and international stories • Tone is informative and formal • Headlines are more factual and direct • Adverts target higher social groups • Use more text than images (text led) • Examples include The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian Conventions of a newspaper: Task: who are the target audience for these papers? (prints that were handed out) Both newspapers were similar in a lot of ways, for example, they're both targeted for a demographic ...

Key terms:   conglomerate -a thing consisting  of different parts or items that are grouped together , collection. -normally large companies are conglomerate Examples of conglomerate companies:   Timewarner Disney  Sony     oligopoly-  a state of limited competition in which a market is shared by a small number of producers and companies    DMGT- Daily Mail and General Trust plc is a British media company, the owner of The Daily Mail and trhe metro and several other titles.  Wikipedia Stock price :  DMGT   (LON)   688.50 GBX   +4.50 (+0.66%) 3 Nov, 12:02 GMT -  Disclaimer CEO :  Paul Zwillenberg Chairperson :  Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere CFO :  Tim Collier Headquarters :  London Revenue :  1.91 billion GBP (2016) Number of employees :  9,600 (2014) Subsidiaries :  DMG Media ,  ZPG plc , Trinity Minor-  Trinity Mirror plc is the largest...