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NDM: The changing face of news media

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The impact of Google Read  this article looking at the impact Google has had on the traditional newspaper business . 1) Why has Google led to the decline of the newspaper industry? Google being one of the most successful techonlogical company's have been able to gain revenue in advertisment in these past decades .Online advertiement and news online has led to the decline of print newwspapers due to the fact  that audeinces are now more engaged with digital media. Therefore, this make it incredible difficult for print newspapers to compete with google. 2) Find a  statistic  from the article that illustrates the decline of traditional news media. “... $60 billion plus of potential annual ad sales that print publications seem to have lost, Google had grabbed about $44 billion by 2012, from virtually nothing in 2000. That two-thirds of slice of the spoils is about equal to the company’s market share of the online search business.”   3) Looking at the graph feat

Weekly News Articles 4,5

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NFL protests after Donald Trump comments unlike anything I've seen - Osi Umenyiora Trump NFL row: How and why it escalated NFL protests: It's not just male athletes #TakeAKnee v #BoycottNFL ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parents should let children spend more time online to 'save the country'

Weekly News Articles 1,2,3

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Social media suicide The article is about a 18 year old  girl called  Océane who live streamed her suicide and how the comments may have driven her to jump as well as the things she found difficult in life. Océane death was the first suicide to be broadcast live which could say something about our society and how far social media may drive people in such a vulnerable sate as hers. Perhaps the platform of social media is more dangerous than we thought. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Guardina view on privacy: Computers The article talks about how people no longer have privacy online. It talks about how in China the government regulates what they use the internet for. It also goes on to talk about how " The Chinese government does not believe its citizens have any right to privacy at all."

NDM News index

1.   29 /08/17-  First social media suicide  2.  0 8 /09/17-   Binge watching TV shows 3.   30/08/17-   Privacy: computers gossip 4.   12/07/16-   How technology disrupted the truth 5.   25/09/17-    NFL protests after Donald Trump's comments 6.  0 8/08/17-   Parents should let children spend more time on the internet? 7.   12 /07/17-    The Rise of Socialism with NDM: How Social Media Saved Socialism 8.   26 /09/17-    Twitter increase their character limit to try and get more revenue / power 9.  0 6 /08/17-   Grenfell Tower survivors helped through social media campaigns 10.  25 /02/17-  How the changing Media is changing Terrorism 11. 28 /09/17-  ' Online guerrilla war’- social media/alternative news threatening more traditional media 12. 25 /09/17-   How Twitter and social media has been used to abuse women in positions of power 13. 23 /09/17-   Stress and social media fuel mental health crisis among girls                        

NDM: Audience and institution

Media Factsheet 104: Audiences in the digital age 1) What was the relationship between institutions and audiences in the pre-digital  age? 2) What is the definition of a  mass  audience? Give an example of a media product or institution aimed at a mass audience. 3) What is the definition of a  niche  audience? Give an example of a media product or institution aimed at a niche audience. 4) How has digitisation changed the  distribution  of information and media products in the music, television and news industries? 5) How have developments in new and digital media helped make audiences  active  rather than  passive ? 6) Provide specific examples of how audiences are now  active  in the music, news and film industries. 7) List  THREE  arguments that suggest the increasing power of audiences is a bad thing. 8) Return to the question from the original lesson: Have  audiences  or institutions  benefited more as a result of the internet? Answer this in an extended paragraph justifyi