Shabd's Media Blog 1 - (Mr Bush)

WWW: I like your idea for the dynamic with the characters. EBI: Timings of presentation but great presentation none the less. WWW: The use of simple slides at the beginning of the presentation EBI: Slowly becomes to much text and therefore full sentences. WWW: Good use of movie examples EBI: Simple connations, need more details WWW: Good Conclusion EBI: Need Better Rehearsal and spoke incredibly fast. WWW: Good concept sounds interesting. EBI: Try to apply more media theories throughout. WWW: A lot if the information in a short amount of time. EBI: Practise timings better for changes don't make a narrative that obvious. I believe that the concept of my movie and the realistic narrative was a point that people really liked just the execution must be good to have a clear narrative in a two minute trailer, I do believe that by saying too much for some slides I ended up speaking to fast and saying future points that made one of my slides completely irrelevant therefore...

1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this? He states that journalism is accountable of supplying all different types of media platforms news as they often use them to give them the source of the news which would lead to it being much more difficult to relay the news off to people. He also mentions how journalism is able to focus on multiple stories and is a way all types of audience can get what they want. 2) What does Shirky say about the relationship between newspapers and advertisers? Which websites does he mention as having replaced major revenue-generators for newspapers (e.g. jobs, personal ads etc.)? He mentions how advertisers that are more common and broad are being shown on the newspapers due to most popular advertising companies now being with big internet companies such as Google and their Ad Sense company which is a factor that paper companies co...

Blog task 1: The impact of Google Answer the following questions: 1) Why has Google led to the decline of the newspaper industry? Because it is now more convenient to access soft and hard news through the use of google,  they attracted a lot of customers that wanted to advertise on their search engine which led to media businesses siphoning billions in advertising revenue over the past decade or so. 2) Find a statistic from the article that illustrates the decline of traditional news media. Newspaper businesses had a decline of $40 billion, or about 60 percent of the ad revenue in 2000 3) Looking at the graph featured in the article, what period has seen the steepest decline in newspaper advertising revenue?  2005 - 20012 as this is was close to when the internet was introduced. 4) Do you personally think Google is to blame for newspapers closing and journalists losing their jobs? Why? Personally, I don't think they are to blame to a certain ex...

The death of print media: Fact sheet blog tasks Go to our Media Fact sheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open  Fact sheet  165: The death of print media . Our Media Fact sheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media  Fact sheets Read the Factsheet and complete the following questions/tasks: 1) What has happened to print media in the last 30 years? Print media was  one of the main sources of information for audiences. The desire for  information is not a new one. Since the first newspapers in 1660s, and  the relaxing of British censorship laws in 1695, printed newspapers  have been a primary source of this information. 2) Why is the  Independent  newspaper such a good case study for the decline in print media? Because it eventually failed in the printed form even though it was not a bias newspaper. 3) What was the  Independent  newspaper famous for? For giving a fresh non-aligne...