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Tuesday 13 October 2015
Sunday 4 October 2015
"We Media" and Democracy - Andreas
Over the summer I came across news quite easily, from social
networks to the media on the TV.
However the news I came across wasn't always legitimate as
some of them was just biased views towards something they strongly disagree
about like the Syrian migrant crisis and how it can damage the economy and that
ISIS members are hidden within them (something I
disagree with) which shows that the news cant exactly be reliable.
One example of News however which got my attention over the
summer was the chemical plant in china blowing up and causing mass fires in Shandong
which killed about 200 people and many
more injured or missing, I first found this piece of news from Facebook which is a social media website and at first i
was questioning its credibility so that made me look into further detail about
this and I the checked BBC news website for more information on this catastrophe
and that confirmed the source on Facebook, while looking more into this piece
of news I found out some amateur videos from a citizen of the explosion taking
place and was filmed from a hotel room only a few miles away from the explosion
radius ( Video ).
The Syrian migrant crisis has been portrayed in many
different ways over the news from what I've found over the past month as left
wing bias news (Guardian) has said these people are seeking help and its our
job to provide that compensation, on the other hand right wing papers believe
that they are damaging our society and are a greater threat than we think.
Another story I came across was the scandal between David
Cameron and a pig in oxford university in which he had to do a inappropriate
action with a dead pigs head to gain acknowledgement from his former 'friends'
at university and join this private club, the way in which I found out about
this story is through people at first then on the internet and through many
tabloid papers mocking him for a instant which he describes as being stabbed in
the back, the sources i gained this information from are trusted as it is
everywhere and published in papers.
The media I come across is commonly left winged news as I
consider myself to be left winged and majority are my friends are so, the main
source of my information comes from the Guardian newspaper which has a left
winged bias however I occasionally read BBC news which doesn't have a bias due
to it being funded by the tax payers and when looking on for the news on
websites it uses cookies which personalises information found and makes me have
news which is somewhat similar to what I always read.
Thursday 1 October 2015
"We media" and democracy - Frank
What have you learned about your media use and how you access news content?
The news is a massive part of our lives it can shape change and redefine the way that we live, it influences on the choices we make and always will. I would say that I have always had ssan inkling into the news and mostly been aware of my surroundings and whats happening around me.
I get most of my news from the Sky News app on my phone which I do feel is a trustworthy source and that it brings me the most important updates from around the world more so than other corporation and I feel that BBC cares more about the latest sportsperson to retire, however the BBC website remains the most popular online destination, used by 52% of people who go online but this could just be all of those who google it as some sort of a test to see if something works in the apple store. As the BBC is government funded it must follow the six points of the charter set out by the royal charter and agreement this may keep it fair and available to everyone but I feel it is restricted this way and is focused more on entertainment rather than news yet they still attract one out of every 28 people around the world. The main reason that I use this app is because of its accessibility and ease of use, I check it at least once a day and have alerts on. I follow sports news as well closely and have the Sky News football app however I don't feel the need to check this as often because of the influence of social media.
I do use social media as another portal to the news nominally twitter, I feel it has a wider range of opinions and makes the news more relatable to an extent an Ofcom report from 2013 found that eight out of 10 people don't trust the media to reflect their concerns and needs. Almost half (46%) thought social media more accurately represented them, compared to the 18% who favoured mainstream media. Social media served as a hub for all and spreads news faster because people are more inclined to regularly check it whilst on the move rather than the pages of news websites. In 2012 Facebook publishers sent around 62 million links but within a year it saw growth of nearly 100 million with 161 million outbound links being sent in 2013. More evidence of this change within social media was the change of the twitter prompt from ‘What are you doing?’ to ‘Whats happening?’ with people posting more newsworthy material and less about themselves. 500 million tweets are sent a day with around 13% (65 million) containing a URL. In the six months following the revolution in Egypt the amount of Facebook users rose from 450,000 to a staggering 3 million. The week before president Hosni Mubarak resignation, the total rate of tweets about political change in Egypt spiked from 2,300 a day to 230,000 a day this shows the global scale and reach that social media has. People can learn a lot from social media however I feel that the use of cookies is limiting what is immediately available to us. Cookies tailor our social media to recent searches clicks to try and bring the best and most interesting content to that particular person. Even though we are after the most relevant and interesting news and don't want to have to sift through irrelevant articles it limits the news we are actually exposed to. It now requires someone with those regards already instilled within them to seek out that news and I'm sure they hold no issue with doing this if that is their diversion, I like to delve further into the news and develop my own opinion. Twitter participation has increased 40% during the uprising in Syria,social media has quickly become a place to discover news just as it breaks, bringing the stories of those involved imminently through their own words and allowing more citizen journalists and amateur footage for example, the first person to break the news on the American force’s raid on Osama Bin Laden was his neighbour, who sent out a tweet about the commotion going on next door. This shows the great power that social media has and the influence it has on our lives. I don't find that I fend as much ’general’ news on social media I might see someone complaining about something but then this leads me to search for it myself. Twitter promotes things which are trending and this usual encompasses the football, which I do learn a lot about from twitter, and the latest celebrity to mess up. Don't get me wrong, I think social media methods are great and help me to keep on track of whats going on in the world and learn about things that aren't in the news, which are usually more interesting.
Televised news does still exist. In actual fact I do watch it. Shocking I know. Every morning I sit eating my grapefruit and slice of marmalade toast in front of Euronews, I sound like such a grandmother. I find Euronews as one of if not the best news channel on television, it brings together news from all across the world to every European . It tries to remain impartial and give fact rather than opinion, it has one section called ‘no comment tv’ this is where it will present raw footage with, you got it, no comment. It tends to show something particularly harrowing along with the empty noise of the clip really honing in the reality of the video. In recent months this has mostly been shots following the refugees. They tend not to ask opinion but to just observe and let you form your own opinion around the events which you see, you should watch it and my description probably makes it sound very amateur and illegitimate but I’ll put a link below. In the parts in which they do speak, they try to get a wide range of presenters from all across the world, usually from the country which they are reporting. This is to give a more accurate and insightful view to what is happening even if this means doing lots of voice overs. It’s constantly rolling news and has no studio or presenters, it just has the stories playing through which are occasionally interrupted by something happening live. I get the majority of my news from this as it gives precise short insights to the mornings news which i will if I am interested in follow up and look out for them developing in the day.
I already have a keen interest in the news and like to know what is happening around me, how my future could be and has been affected by whats happening right now in this very moment by people who have no idea of my existence. I followed the election very closely this year and previously in 2010, I think its important to develop an opinion and understand the world. I think we live in a society where people aren't bothered about whats happening in the world and may see it as boring but ultimately it could will decide how your life pans out. I think to grow up understanding your surroundings will help us further down the line in making life choices because we only learn from mistakes, and politics is full of them. Personally I enjoy that knowledge and feel it helps me in everyday life whether it’s whilst conversing with others, helping me to learn and understand something new or just to help me create educated decisions plus I like clever jokes.
The Euronews website:
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