01/10/14 NDM story 6

'Fox News presenters mock female pilot who took part in campaign against Isis'

This news is about a female pilot - Major Mariam al Mansouri - who was made fun of by male presenters on Fox News. She is described by the Emirati ambassador called her "a fully qualified, highly trained, combat-ready pilot." However, in America her success was questioned sexist and sarcastically as“Would that be considered boobs on the ground or no?”, with another comment saying ''“The problem is after she bombed it she couldn't park it,”

I believe this is a really unprofessional way to react, since sexist jokes shouldn't be made if representations and stereotypes of a 'male-dominated' field, such as piloting -  are being challenged by females. I think Major Mariam has made a very proud-to be of accomplishment, and she is definitely someone to look up to for any females who want equality, or wish to enter a ''male-dominated'' field.  


• She is 35 years old and graduated from flight school in 2007.
• She was one of the first of three females to join the Emirati air force after it started admitting women.
• She flew an F-16 Desert Falcon during the airstrikes against ISIS over Syria.

24/09/14 Weekly NDM Story - 5

'Royal baby story helps Press Association profits rise to £9.8m'

Birth of Prince George was said to be the largest story of 2013. The parent company of the Press Association reported a rise in operating profits of a quarter to £9.8m last year.
Thousands of words and hundreds of pictures were published. Live pictures were streamed from outside the hospital and they were watched more than million times. 

This shows that the birth of Baby George was significant not only to the royal family, but also the residents of Britain and globally. Profits of the press association dropping after the royal baby, shows them that they need to be finding ways to make more, such as them introducing weather forecast to General Atlantic, they need to continue to introduce new services and stay on top in order to maintain high profits. 

Question

''The last 20 years have been more significant in terms of media & its role in society, than the whole previous 200 years. '' 

I agree to this statement, to some extent - because although the past 20 years have been very significant in terms of media, as there has been a massive revolution of being able to listen, read, and print  - i.e. use all three media platforms to access news and media, however in the whole previous 200 years there was not. 

In the previous 200 years there was either radio, which not everyone was able to use, TV News, which only came in the 1930's and again, not everyone had access to this - word of mouth was the only main way. 

On the other hand, now that news is available on all three platforms, and media is available more - users are likely to not make use of the development, such as making use of all three radio, TV, and social media for example. Maybe one or two of these means are used, whereas in the previous 200 years - any opportunity to get media coverage, such as word of mouth, tv ect was seen as more of a privilege thus it's arguable that the previous 200 years in terms of media had a larger impact on society. 

17/09/14 Weekly New & Digital Media (NDM) Stories (4)

4 'How video games like Destiny are making a huge profit'

Video game, Destiny on-line poster^.

Destiny is on track to become the most successful video game in history, with $500m (approximately £310) worth of pre-orders made on the first day of its release. This is similar to last year’s Grand Theft Auto V generated $(app800m approximately £49m) worldwide for Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. on its first day last September, making it the biggest video game debut.


I believe this is happening because more and more people are into consoles now, technology is getting better making games much more realistic! in addition, children who are under age are buying these games globally - thus increase the audience.

10/09/14 - Weekly New & Digital Media (NDM) Stories (1,2,3)

1 - 'Could Ali Baba be bigger than Amazon?' 

Above is Jack Ma, the founder of Ali Baba.


Ali Baba is currently making more revenue than eBay and Amazon combined, there are 279 million active buyers and 8.5 million active sellers on its on-line platform, has a number of competitive advantages over Amazon. It has become one of the largest technology companies.

In my opinion Ali baba will need to maintain making more revenue and profits than eBay, and being popular globally too - rather than just the USA - leading to higher potential to take-over Amazon.  

-Valuation: £122bn 

2 'EU tells Google to do more to settle search row with rivals'

Google, could be fined £3.7bn if it fails to reach an agreement with the European Commission, must improve its proposal after “very negative” feedback from rivals.Google has so far improved its offer three times in response to claims from Microsoft, European publishers and competitors across the continent that it dominates the online search market and blocks advertisers from moving to competing platforms.

I believe Google will not want further negative feedback & publicity thus will decide to resolve issues with EU, and will come to an agreement, eventually.

3 'Microsoft wants Minecraft for Windows Phone'

The Swedish developer with 100 million players of its open world Minecraft game, is more aimed at pulling users onto the software company's obscure mobile platform than its better known PC system or Xbox game console.
The software company's Windows Phone system has only 2.5 per cent of the world's smartphone market, and its Surface tablet barely more, according to tech research firm

Minecraft^

Minecraft, which is the top paid app both on Apple's iOS and Google's Android systems. Microsoft will unveil a $US2.5 billion deal to buy its owner on Monday, this is most liklely to go through in my opinion - as this amount is approximately '8 times sales last year' of Mine craft.