50 NDM Stories Index/Categories

1. 10/09/14 'Could Ali Baba be bigger than Amazon?'

2.10/09/14 'EU tells Google to do more to settle search row with rivals'

3.10/09/14'Microsoft wants Minecraft for Windows Phone'

4. 17/09/14 'How video games like Destiny are making a huge profit'

5. 24/09/14'Royal baby story helps Press Association profits rise to £9.8m'

6. 01/10/14 'Fox News presenters mock female pilot who took part in campaign against Isis'

7. 08/10/14'News of the World’s Ian Edmondson pleads guilty'

8.15/10/14 'British police’s use of Ripa powers to snoop on journalists to be reined in'

9. 22/10/14 'Twitter teams up with SoundCloud and iTunes to play audio within tweets'

10. 29/10/14 Untangling the web: privacy

11. 05/11/14 UK joins world's fastest mobile internet club with next generation 4G+ rollout

12. 05/11/14 High sales. Big profits. Rising user numbers. So why the turmoil at the Telegraph?

13. 12/11/14 Channel 4 to launch eBay-style market for advertisers on cloud TV service

14. 12/11/14 How social networking is changing journalism

15. 19/11/14  Local papers cautious as BBC courts them with free content

16. 19/11/14 Let’s get over the whole 'newspapers are dying' thing

17. 26/11/14 BBC undermining local newspapers, says Theresa May

18. 26/11/14 Facebook hosted Lee Rigby death chat ahead of soldier's murder

19. 03/12/14 Sun+ signs up 225,000 paying subscribers

20. 03/12/14 Osborne: Autumn Statement cuts warnings 'hyperbolic'

21. 10/12/14 Is a profit worth the price of the Times’s paywall?

22. 10/12/14  BBC director lashes out at "lazy" journalism after Christmas schedules criticised

23. 17/12/14 Turkish journalism arrests spark angry media divide

24. 17/12/14  Instagram now has 300m users sharing 70m photos and videos a day

25. 07/01/15 New York Times to set up digital hub in London

26. 07/01/15 Amazon to offer Washington Post app for free to Fire tablet owners

27.14/01/15 BuzzFeed launches its own 'public chat' channel in messaging app Viber 

28. 14/01/15 Charlie Hebdo print run raised to 5m as copies in France sell out

29. 21/01/15 Charlie Hebdo launches app version featuring prophet Muhammed cover

30. 21/01/15 End of topless women on the Sun’s Page 3 welcomed by MPs

31. 04/02/15 Journalists back in the firing line as digital media struggles to protect its own

32. 04/02/15 Top Gear, BBC4 and the watershed: what we learned from Tony Hall

33. 11/02/15 A millennial's verdict on Snapchat Discover

34. 11/02/15 Twitter CEO: We suck at dealing with trolls and abuse

35. 18/02/15 Spanish politicians try to woo voters over WhatsApp

36.18/02/15 Embrace social media stars, they can work wonders for your brand

37. 25/02/15 Jersey Evening Post's new-look website to go behind metered paywall

38. 25/02/15 Nigel Farage urges UK broadcasters to press ahead with television debates

39.  04/03/15 The Sun suffers big sales fall without Page 3 - but don't rush to conclusions

40.  04/03/15 Daily Mail in New York disputes journalist's ripping-off-the-web claims

41.  04/03/15 Pittsburgh mall shooting suspect identified from Instagram post

42. 04/03/15 Google to launch YouTube subscription service without ads 

43. 11/03/15 Twitter's new bid to end online abuse could endanger dissidents

44. 18/03/15  Twitter 'could be vital tool in general election'

45. 18/03/15  Twitter Latest To Face Sex Discrimination Lawsuit

46. 25/03/15  Apple reveals the secret fitness lab it has been using for TWO YEARS to develop its health tracking watch

47. 25/03/15  Woman killed herself after being doorstepped over McCann trolling 

48. 01/04/15 Rupert Murdoch's News Corp empire has just seen its profits halved

49. 01/04/15 Tweets versus Wall Street: analysts fear for Twitter in the battle for advertising

50. 15/04/15 The philosophy of privacy: why surveillance reduces us to objects

 51. 15/04/15 Daily Telegraph backs Tories with email to marketing database


Categories

-Technology 51. 15/04/15 Daily Telegraph backs Tories with email to marketing database

50. 15/04/15 The philosophy of privacy: why surveillance reduces us to objects46. 25/03/15  Apple reveals the secret fitness lab it has been using for TWO YEARS to develop its health tracking watch14. 12/11/14 How social networking is changing journalism
3.10/09/14'Microsoft wants Minecraft for Windows Phone'
4. 17/09/14 'How video games like Destiny are making a huge profit'
1. 10/09/14 'Could Ali Baba be bigger than Amazon?'
2.10/09/14 'EU tells Google to do more to settle search row with rivals'



-Journalism
50. 15/04/15 The philosophy of privacy: why surveillance reduces us to objects
48. 01/04/15 Rupert Murdoch's News Corp empire has just seen its profits halved
39.  04/03/15 The Sun suffers big sales fall without Page 3 - but don't rush to conclusions
40.  04/03/15 Daily Mail in New York disputes journalist's ripping-off-the-web claims
37. 25/02/15 Jersey Evening Post's new-look website to go behind metered paywall
28. 14/01/15 Charlie Hebdo print run raised to 5m as copies in France sell out
29. 21/01/15 Charlie Hebdo launches app version featuring prophet Muhammed cover
30. 21/01/15 End of topless women on the Sun’s Page 3 welcomed by MPs
31. 04/02/15 Journalists back in the firing line as digital media struggles to protect its own
25. 07/01/15 New York Times to set up digital hub in London
26. 07/01/15 Amazon to offer Washington Post app for free to Fire tablet owners
20. 03/12/14 Osborne: Autumn Statement cuts warnings 'hyperbolic'
21. 10/12/14 Is a profit worth the price of the Times’s paywall?
22. 10/12/14  BBC director lashes out at "lazy" journalism after Christmas schedules criticised
23. 17/12/14 Turkish journalism arrests spark angry media divide

19. 03/12/14 Sun+ signs up 225,000 paying subscribers14. 12/11/14 How social networking is changing journalism
15. 19/11/14  Local papers cautious as BBC courts them with free content
16. 19/11/14 Let’s get over the whole 'newspapers are dying' thing
17. 26/11/14 BBC undermining local newspapers, says Theresa May12. 05/11/14 High sales. Big profits. Rising user numbers. So why the turmoil at the Telegraph?
10. 29/10/14 Untangling the web: privacy

6. 01/10/14 'Fox News presenters mock female pilot who took part in campaign against Isis'

7. 08/10/14'News of the World’s Ian Edmondson pleads guilty'
8.15/10/14 'British police’s use of Ripa powers to snoop on journalists to be reined in'5. 24/09/14'Royal baby story helps Press Association profits rise to £9.8m'

-Social Media 
 47. 25/03/15 Woman killed herself after being doorstepped over McCann trolling 
43. 11/03/15 Twitter's new bid to end online abuse could endanger dissidents
44. 18/03/15  Twitter 'could be vital tool in general election'
45. 18/03/15  Twitter Latest To Face Sex Discrimination Lawsuit
41.  04/03/15 Pittsburgh mall shooting suspect identified from Instagram post
42. 04/03/15 Google to launch YouTube subscription service without ads 36.18/02/15 Embrace social media stars, they can work wonders for your brand
33. 11/02/15 A millennial's verdict on Snapchat Discover
34. 11/02/15 Twitter CEO: We suck at dealing with trolls and abuse29. 21/01/15 Charlie Hebdo launches app version featuring prophet Muhammed cover
27.14/01/15 BuzzFeed launches its own 'public chat' channel in messaging app Viber 
24. 17/12/14  Instagram now has 300m users sharing 70m photos and videos a day
18. 26/11/14 Facebook hosted Lee Rigby death chat ahead of soldier's murder14. 12/11/14 How social networking is changing journalism
9. 22/10/14 'Twitter teams up with SoundCloud and iTunes to play audio within tweets'




-Democracy 
 51. 15/04/15 Daily Telegraph backs Tories with email to marketing database38. 25/02/15 Nigel Farage urges UK broadcasters to press ahead with television debates
35. 18/02/15 Spanish politicians try to woo voters over WhatsApp

-UGC

-Other32. 04/02/15 Top Gear, BBC4 and the watershed: what we learned from Tony Hall
13. 12/11/14 Channel 4 to launch eBay-style market for advertisers on cloud TV service

11. 05/11/14 UK joins world's fastest mobile internet club with next generation 4G+ rollout

NDM Story #50 - 15/04/15

Daily Telegraph backs Tories with email to marketing database

The Telegraph has taken its support for the Conservatives a step further by using its marketing database and new and digital platforms, i.e. email to urge people to vote Conservative in what the newspaper’s editor Chris Evans describes as an “unprecedented step”. This shows that whereas on Twitter there is a lot of ranting about the public voting labour, The Telegraph being a left wing decides to find innovative and new digital ways to appeal to the audience via email, as opposed to just traditional print media.

Some recipients turned to Twitter to express their surprise, saying they had only signed up to the newspaper’s technology and finance emails. Others complained they had not handed over their email address to receive political messages from the newspaper.

-The telegraph offered in this email a 45-day free digital subscription, covering the election period.

- sent on the 7th /May 2015 - election day

-It concludes: “The Daily Telegraph urges its readers to vote Conservative.”

NDM Story #50 - 15/04/15

The philosophy of privacy: why surveillance reduces us to objects

This article is about privacy being violated due to the media and the internet. Although the internet has become a platform to gain equality and rights/freedom globally, by fourth-wave feminists for example - people have been treated like objects as they are spied on.

The article by Michael P. Lynch  (director of the Humanities Institute, and professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut. ) claims:

''By invading our privacy without our knowledge, governments are making certain invisible decisions for the population. That is different to restricting autonomy by asking people to all go through a scanner at the airport. That is power visible to all, applied to all.''

NDM Story #49 - 01/04/15

Tweets versus Wall Street: analysts fear for Twitter in the battle for advertising

In this news story is about Twitter which is a beloved of news organisations, celebrities, Islamist propagandists and trolls. Twitter has a problem: it isn’t growing its user base quickly enough and it isn’t making enough money from those it does have to satisfy Wall Street.

The growth in the number of “monthly active users” who sign in at least once a month – up 18% year-on-year to 302 million – didn't seem fast enough. And revenues, at $436m for the quarter, up 74% year-on-year, haven’t risen as fast as analysts expected.

This shows that the competitive nature of new and digital media mean that a single institution isn't able to receive all the users, but since users have a choice of what to use and have alternatives such as Facebook, they can use that instead. 

NDM Story #48 - 01/04/15

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp empire has just seen its profits halved

This story is about Rupert Murdoch's profit declines.

The company saw profits more than halve as advertising revenues continued to decline and the strong dollar took its toll.
Net income attributable to shareholders dropped by 52 per cent to $23m (£15m).
Total earnings across the group before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation fell by seven per cent to $175m. These figures included a charge of $15m relating to the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World.

MEST3 Independent case study: New and Digital Media

Case study research tasks

The basics

Your chosen industry: Social media/Internet 
Your chosen case study (i.e. text/institution etc.): Everyday sexism
Have you received approval for this case study from your teacher? Yes/No


Audience

1) How has new and digital media changed the audience experience in your chosen industry?
- The internet and social media allow forums, blogs, tweets and many other methods for people to discuss issues, not just those down the road - but also those miles away, and across the globe. The internet has changed experiences as a variety of views are available, making the world seem to be pulled closer and seem like a 'global village' (Marshall McLuhan).

2) Has new and digital media changed the way the audience consume your chosen product?
-New and digital media has impacted everyday sexism greatly, as Laura Bates managed to get a lot of attention using a Ted X talk and other social media pages such as sharing experiences by re tweeting sexist experiences.

3) Has the size of the audience changed as a result of new and digital media?
-Yes it has, as many women probably wouldn't be as confident to talk about such issues if they didn't know how many other people are posting they probably would feel reluctant to join. Laura Bates being the opinion leader (2 step flow model) had bought much more courage to females to share their experiences and prove that sexism does still exist and it is a valid problem that females 'have to' put up with and the society see as casual.

4) What are the positive changes new and digital media have brought to the audience of your case study? (E.g. greater choice, easier access etc.)
-New and digital media has allowed the audiences and those who share their stories to be anonymous, and see an up to date running number of experiences posted on the website, they also have a greater choice, as they can buy the book of Everyday Sexism, if they'd rather have that than read the experiences posted online.

5) What are the negative changes new and digital media have had on your chosen audience? (E.g. quality of product etc.)
-Some people may choose to write negative comments in the experience sections and say these females are over-exaggerating and make parodies out of serious problems.




6) What about audience pleasures - have these changed as a result of new and digital media?

7) What is the target audience for your chosen case study? Write a demographic/psychographic profile.
Females, in the B-D socio-class. 


Institution

1) How has new and digital media had an impact on ownership or control in your chosen industry?
User generated content has become a huge part of the internet, meaning internet users, i.e. us are able to share our ideologies where ever we want to for example commenting on news articles on BBC.
The industry of social media in specific has allowed us as an audience to have quite a bit of control as well as arguable ownership; because one can now post updates to friends on Facebook; or join in trends with Twitter Hastags or post up vlogs/videos on YouTube. Although this is more ownership and control then the audience once had, this still is moderated, and anything seen as ‘’inappropriate’’ would be deleted.

2) What impact has new and digital media had on ownership in your chosen case study?
New and digital media has made it much easier for females to share their views online, and realise and share their experiences on what they go through everyday i.e. sexism comments, being objectified and in other words: inequality. New Digital media has provided them with a platform to express their views and feelings, thus demonstrate the fourth wave of feminism.

3) How has new and digital media changed the way institutions produce texts?
As opposed to the traditional


4) How has new and digital media changed the way institutions distribute their product?
Billboards and TV advertising, are the traditional methods of distribution. Organisations such as Everyday Sexism have done more and promoted by Laura Bates going on the TedX talk, as well as their official website, and Social Media Page and other events such as the Hay Festival and at the South Bank Centre during the women of the world festival. All videos are posted on Youtube, as well as online news sites such as the Guardian, allowing a younger audience as well as an educated audience to be more aware about this campaign.  She also came on several TV interviews that were shown live – such as the BBC Breakfast Show last year.

5) How might new and digital media threaten your chosen industry?
Although women are able to anonymously share experiences, trollers and misogynists, what we would call ‘anti-feminist’ can also access the website and leave disturbing, disrespectful and foolish comments – therefore this can be a threat.


6) How has new and digital media changed the way your chosen industry is regulated?
Audience can now also ‘remove’ and ‘report’ comments as opposed to just the actual elite i.e. people in control doing this.


UGC

1)What examples of user-generated content can you find in your case study?
Females from all over the world have

2) How has UGC changed things for audiences or institutions in your chosen case study?
UGC has allowed the audience to have more opportunities and methods  of getting their views across and being recognised, as audiences can express themselves and influence others (2 step flow model) to feel a certain way, for example anti-feminists creating Twitter page Menist Twitter to mock Feminism.
However, UGC means it is much more difficult for organisations to control and maintain what is being posted on social media, for example what is trending on Twitter.

Marxism, Pluralism and Hegemony

1) What would be a Marxist perspective of the impact of new and digital media on your chosen case study/industry?
Although audiences are given the power to use and create media texts, and post experiences such as on the Everyday Sexism website; this media is still regulated; and the organisations review this and remove content if it is not meeting ‘standards’ and these are set by the elite, in order to maintain hegemonic control.

2) How would a pluralist view the impact of new and digital media in your chosen case study/industry?
A pluralist would say that new and digital media gives audience a platform to express themselves better; and post whatever they want – i.e. user generated content – therefore audience have power because what they initially post is their choice.

3) Are there any examples of hegemony in your chosen industry or case study?



Globalisation

1) How has globalisation impacted on your chosen industry or case study?
Audiences from all over the world and all ages have made up the 100,000 expreience, and are a worldwide movement for gender equality.

2) In your opinion, has globalisation had a positive or negative impact on your chosen industry and case study? Why?
Globalisation has had a very posititve impact on the internet – because people are able to get world news and views much better, allowing them to know the world better, as if they are part of a ‘global village’. In addition, globalistation specifically for my case stude (Everyday Sexism) has been highly beneficial as it has enabled over 100,000 stories to be collected, and different views on sexism to be shared- for example sexism in work place for working women, or sexism in school/college and uni for students as well as sexism for a normal female as she walks down the road.

3) Can you find examples of cultural imperialism in your case study or industry? (The 'Americanisation' of the world)
Laura Bates is British – therefore there is not much Americanisation in my case study in specific. However, the internet industry is full of cultural imperialism as acronyms and words used are mainly from the American culture.


Social media

1) How has your industry or case study used social media to promote its products?
Twitter/Youtube/Facebook

2) Provide examples of how your case study has used social media and explain the impact this would have on audiences.

3) Is social media an opportunity or a threat to your industry and case study?

Statistics

1) What statistics can you find to illustrate the impact new and digital media has had on your industry or case study? For example, in news, the UK newspaper industry sold more than 12m copies a day in 2001 but in 2014 it was below 7m.
- Laura Bates has now published a book featuring 60,000 women's experiences of sexism.

- The third anniversary of the campaign was in April 2015

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2) What impact have the statistics you have found had on institutions in your chosen industry?

3) What has the impact been for audiences?


Theories

1) What media theories can you apply to your chosen industry and case study? Select THREE media theories and explain how they are relevant to your case study. Note: these can be ANY of the theories we have learned over the whole of Year 12 and 13.

Issues/debates

1) What media issues and debates can you apply to your chosen industry and case study? Select THREE media issues/debates and explain how they are relevant to your case study.


Wider examples and secondary texts

1) What other texts or institutions are also relevant to your case study? What would be good secondary texts or examples to use to support the findings of your independent case study?
Taylor Swift & Beyonce supporting Feminism


Ignite presentation

When you have completed your independent case study research, prepare a 20-slide, 5 minute Ignite presentation on your chosen industry and case study. You will present this in class after Easter to widen our overall knowledge of the impact of new and digital media on a variety of industries, examples and texts. Remember the Ignite rules:

• 20 slides
• 15-second auto-advance
• No more than 20 words on each slide

Due: after Easter

NDM Story #47 - 25/03/15

Woman killed herself after being doorstepped over McCann trolling




This article is about a women who was found dead in a hotel room due to sour tweets she received.

• On 30 September she was approached by Brunt and a cameraman outside her village home in Burton Overy, Leicestershire, after the journalist was given a dossier containing details of people allegedly posting abusive tweets about Kate and Gerry McCann, whose daughter Madeleine disappeared in Portugal in 2007. Leyland had posted or reposted more than 400 tweets about the McCanns, the inquest heard. 
• Sky broadcast footage of Leyland, but did not name her or give details of where she lived, the inquest heard.
• A Sky News spokesman said: “Brenda Leyland’s tragic death highlights the unforeseeable human impact that the stories we pursue can have, and Sky News would like to extend its sincere condolences to her family.” 

This shows the power of social media, this women was attacked verbally for expressing her opinions on the McCann family.