- Open to innovation
- Network is becoming seemless and very fast - accessable
Internet is valuable for free speech but is not yet safe
The internet is replacing many things such as newspapers
Ways to use the internet:
- Connection
- Information
- Voices in your head
- Political action
- Cartias and campaighning
- Financial reward
- Games
- Learning
- friendship
Downsides:
- Bullying
- Unwanted porn
- Images of child sexual abuse
- Abuse
- Scams and rip offs
- Fraud
- conspiracy theories
- The dark web
Over 50% of newspapers are controlled by billionaires e.g Rupert Murdoch
Media representations:
Stuart Hall - role of society - 'commonsense
Rob Watson and Pete Fraser - film production
"Never simply about journalists behaving badly - it is about power
Media power:
Power over:
- Media content
- journalists
- audiences
- government
Power to:
- censor
- mislead
- set the agenda
Media and democracy?
Diversity and plurality
Last few decades -
- Rolling news
- Free newspapers
- mobile apps
- online news
Cut and paste journalists - 'cut and paste from the daily mail'
Hackgate - corruption of power
Chris Jeffres - documentry
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