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....