UGC Example Half Term Homework

Arab Spring UGC Footage.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/mar/22/middle-east-protest-interactive-timeline

Gaddafi and Libya



 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2011/oct/20/syria-libya-middle-east-unrest-live


Ian Tomlinson (R.I.P)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/19/simon-harwood-not-guilty-ian-tomlinson


 Two UGC footage of my own.

London Riots




Hurricane Sandy

Participation or Hegemony Summary

Web. 2.0 Designed by Tim O' Reilly has started real plurality within the media. We are no longer just the audience, we are the audience with a voice and now the ability to be the consumer of our voice. With the new web 2.0 justice and comfort is restored for example; The case of Ian Tomlinson was reported as the police medics were trying to help him survive due to his collapse not knowing that someone had filmed the attack of Ian tomlinson being hit by a police officer. This was shown to the news and the real report went out which ended in the police officer being sentenced for manslaughter. 

In April 1979 Blair Peach was killed in similar circumstances, and to this day no one has been charged with his death. This was before web 2.0 , this goes to show that the 

new 'we media' helps the society 

and gives us more of a reality to what is going on in the world and not have mediated news but real stories.

Developments in new/digital media mean that audiences can now have access to a greater variety of views and values.  To what extent are audiences empowered by these

The internet has increased pluralism; it has provided the people with a platform to voice their opinions. Another advantage of new and digital media is that it “interprets censorship as damage and routes around it”(John Gilmore) therefore, it allows pluralism to flourish . The views and ideologies of political leaders and governments can now be challenged through the internet, by the internet. As Al Gore called the internet “Exciting and revolutionary” and went further to say it has had a “more profound impact than the printing press.”  Since 1991, from when the first website went online, ¼ of the world is now online and this number is expanding.  As Tim Bernes Lee said ‘let the people be free’ and this is exactly what the internet has provided, freedom. Many everyday things can now be done online for example banking (97% of bank transactions are done online in Estonia). New and digital media has provided the globe with a “New World Currency.” The web collapses distances.

Web 2.0  is essentially a medium that allows audiences to become producers of media texts. Anyone with a web connection can create and publish text (UGC) it has reduced the duty of gatekeeper, if not removed them completely. There are huge amounts of views and values available on the internet through "web-based software such as blogs". This is supportive of pluralism, which is a society of competing groups and interests.

What appears to be happening is that YouTube is now used more frequently as a commercial network for promotional and catch-up purposes that runs alongside, and probably dominates, the original, usually trivial, user-generated content. 

We – the audience – no longer have to rely upon the token ‘access’ traditional media offered us, such as newspapers’ letter pages or radio phone-ins. Today we can easily produce texts ourselves, even if we seem to be more interested in mimicking traditional media by becoming YouTube celebrities, or watching music videos and/or television programmes by favourite artistsem predominant. 

Virtual Revolution Notes

• Chinese state have to hide the web from its citizens
• 3,000 people in china police the web
• the great firewall of china
• they percieve the threat is from within
• May 2008, 70,000 people killed
• kuku - pictures / videos ''citizen journalism''
• 50 centres = 300,00 operating to shut down anything they don't like on the net
• 25 million online users in China
• NY Times / BBC they have blocked
• Paypal made by Peter Thiel said to be the 'New World Currency'
• 6 billion dollars every year (2008)
• web = new social groups
• Al Quaida use UCG TO SPREAD FEAR ( PROPAGANDA VIDEOS / SHOCK TACTICS)
• The web allows people to live in their own worlds
• Cyberbolcanisation 
• Astonia ( Russia) most wired contry 97% online bank :O
• Cyber attack -> Denial Service -> Bocknet -. under control of cyber warriors
• Received a big Cyber attack of one of their biggest banks
• Portable home land ( connected by web)
• the web collapsed distances.

News story

£3,250 in his pocket 

The BBC have now agreed to pay more than 3,000 for the outrageous accusations made to Lord Mc Alpine for child abuse.

It has been seen that the BBC has had complete control over the report, reported by Angus Stickler. It insisted that the BBC had had “complete control” over the report and that no one at the bureau other than Mr Stickler and his editor Iain Overton, who has since resigned, had any involvement.  

,My opinion - I think this is fair :), no-one should be accused of child abuse for no reason and definitely not be accused from a couple of tweets. Rushing to conclusions just to have the BBC blamed for something to take the heat of New Night. Not Cool :(

Lord Mc Alpine Summary

News night Scandal Summary

The News night scandal is seen to be one of the biggest scandals within the past decade which started with the Jimmy Savile case. Once News night had enough evidence of the Jimmy Seville case they were due to have a tribute act for him , this of course was very controversial and they decided to opt out of revealing anything they believed would ruin their reputation. News night was already in shambles , but to add onto the brokenness of programme they decided to accuse Lord Mc Alpine of child abuse with evidence of tweets. These accusation were drastic and obviously wrong , which has caused a storm to a point were the show is at risk of being cancelled.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2012/nov/11/bbc-radical-overhaul-newsnight-patten-video

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9686151/Pressure-on-Lord-Patten-over-BBC-DG-handover-offer-rebuff.html#

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2231277/George-Entwistle-Lord-Patten-stands-firm-promises-BBC-overhaul-wake-wretched-crisis.html

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letter

Dear Mr Murdoch I am writing this letter to challenge the fact that you think it is acceptable to charge for news as I think it is immoral for the spreading of information to come at a cost.

First of all charging for online news content will lead to a more democratic society as people may not be able to afford to read several different articles all which may come at a cost. This would mean people are more likely to stick to their subscribed news provider.

Also, adding a cost to online content could lead to a decline in people receiving news from professional institutes and instead turn to each other through channels such as social networking sites e.g twitter and Facebook  Not only will this reduce the quality of news produced by also lead to less reliable information being circulated.

In my opinion charging for online content will not be popular due to the fact that it rarely costs any money to publish things online, therefore people are unlikely to support and trust information from an institute who's aim is to make money, also the fact that most content online from social networking sites to youtube are free therefore why should we have to pay for news.

I am hoping this letter will make you realise the negative effect charging for news will have and i hope to hear from you soon.

Yours sincerely,

Ruby