Net neeutrality is a principle proposed for users' access to networks participating in the Internet. The principle advocates no restrictions by Internet service providers and governments on content, sites, platforms, the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and the modes of communication.
The principle states that if a given user pays for a certain level of Internet access, and another user pays for the same level of access, then the two users should be able to connect to each other at the subscribed level of access.
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Monday, 21 February 2011
The mutualisation of news
1. Consumers are now becoming journalists, as they produce their own media.
2. Internet sites such as 'twitter' have enabled this revolutions to take place.
3. Consumers contact the producers- provide information etc.
useful quotes
"By continuing to go down this route, we will be more diverse, and genuinely more plural than other media organisations"
"The investigation into the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 demonstrations in London was an excellent example of linking traditional journalism with information from the public"
2. Internet sites such as 'twitter' have enabled this revolutions to take place.
3. Consumers contact the producers- provide information etc.
useful quotes
"By continuing to go down this route, we will be more diverse, and genuinely more plural than other media organisations"
"The investigation into the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 demonstrations in London was an excellent example of linking traditional journalism with information from the public"
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
the impact of new and digital media case study
hegemony
"the last colony in the British empire"
freeth 1985:27
"social life, nothing is fixed, rigid or definitive. and nothing will be"
antonio gramski
marxism
"capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth"
'marxism and media studies'
1891- mike wayne
capital imperialism
"western nations dominate the media around the world which in return effects on the third world culture imposing their western views and therefore destroying native culture"
'communication and cultural domination'
herb schiller
globalisation
"media globalisation is tightly interweaven with world economy and market forces"
'children, young and the media globalisation'
cecilia feilitzen and ulla carlsson
post colonialism
"cultural studies must specialism but also actively from and resist the tyranny of the specialists"
'outside in the teaching machine'
spivak
cultural imperialism
"the Americanisation of world culture so often commented on and often deplored might be better described as the discovery of what world culture tastes actually are"
political economy on media
"a political economy of the new media insists on examination of the circumstances that give rise to any given distribution of power and of the consequences consumers and and citizens"
'robin mansell LSE,2004
convergence
"established companies will find in convergence and opportunity to operate more efficiently, increase returns on technology investments and realise other business benefits"
'opportunities and challenges'
stellios papadakis
one
i am an interested politics and media student wanting to focus on the Democratic side of media. this will include UGC, for example, YouTube videos, news blogs and interaction via consumers to the producers.
1.rodney king video - emedia - 3/3/1991
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DROn_9302UHg
2. BBC news
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
3. sky news
news.sky.com/
main theorists to focus on:
1. david gauntlett - digital media
2. theodor adorno - socialist
3. alvarado - politics
BBC:
public service broadcaster
operates under Royal charter
funded by television license fee
chairman- sir michael lyons
director- mark thompson
methods used:
1. yourpics@bbc.co.uk
2. text- 61124
3. various international numbers
sky:
owned by Rupert Murdoch
operating since 1989
bskyb owned
internationally accessible
widened his company (increase producers)
methods used:
1. news@sky.com
2. newsonline@bskyb.com
3. skynewsinternational.com/carry/
- Internet has enabled companies to broaden their audiences
- these audiences have now the ability to interact directly with the channels
- consumers are now producers
- 'send in media'
two
- more consumers
- producers are now asking for the consumers to 'send in' media. this may include photos, stories and videos
- technological advances have made it more accessible ( as its cheaper) for most consumers to buy cameras, phones, other technological advances to share their productions.
S
more UGC
more journalists
H
decline in newspapers
more Internet news
more technology
E
license fees (tax)
earn money through your Media (you've been framed)
P
more democratic (everyone has a voice)
captures live events (sell these for money) or (distribute worldwide e.g. 9/11 attacks)
four
- larger audience
- cheaper technology
- news affects all
- all demographics are affected by news
- e.g. newsround for children below the age of 12
- ratings have increased as the political and economic lifestyle of the uk has changed. the uk has been foreced to adapt to this e.g. recession and now all consumers can access blogs and have their own views on the government, people and personalities.
five
bbc news website-->> 12+ 15+ 18+ newsround academic news
sky contact us website-->> 15+ 18+ academic news
six
- consumers have joined websites such as 'www.youtube.com'- now produce media
- youtube found in feb 2005
- available in 34 languages
- viacom regulated
- blocked in: china
morrocco
thailand
iran
pakistan
turkey
libya
.....
additional notes
2010 tution fees protest
-facebook enabled youths to interact with one and other and this in turn hlped stage the protests accross the uk and schools
uk uncut pressure groups
- protest against corporate tax evaders. the public staged protests by sitting inside stores e.g. vodafone, and then read books (not commiting any crimes) and effectively stopped people shopping there.
closing date 30/1/2011
targets include:
tesco
boots
philip green (topshop, burton, etc...)
vodafone
examples:
- philip green avioded £285 million in tax. this could pay for upto 20 000 nurses and 32, 000 students at £9000 per term fees.
"the last colony in the British empire"
freeth 1985:27
"social life, nothing is fixed, rigid or definitive. and nothing will be"
antonio gramski
marxism
"capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth"
'marxism and media studies'
1891- mike wayne
capital imperialism
"western nations dominate the media around the world which in return effects on the third world culture imposing their western views and therefore destroying native culture"
'communication and cultural domination'
herb schiller
globalisation
"media globalisation is tightly interweaven with world economy and market forces"
'children, young and the media globalisation'
cecilia feilitzen and ulla carlsson
post colonialism
"cultural studies must specialism but also actively from and resist the tyranny of the specialists"
'outside in the teaching machine'
spivak
cultural imperialism
"the Americanisation of world culture so often commented on and often deplored might be better described as the discovery of what world culture tastes actually are"
political economy on media
"a political economy of the new media insists on examination of the circumstances that give rise to any given distribution of power and of the consequences consumers and and citizens"
'robin mansell LSE,2004
convergence
"established companies will find in convergence and opportunity to operate more efficiently, increase returns on technology investments and realise other business benefits"
'opportunities and challenges'
stellios papadakis
one
i am an interested politics and media student wanting to focus on the Democratic side of media. this will include UGC, for example, YouTube videos, news blogs and interaction via consumers to the producers.
1.rodney king video - emedia - 3/3/1991
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DROn_9302UHg
2. BBC news
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
3. sky news
news.sky.com/
main theorists to focus on:
1. david gauntlett - digital media
2. theodor adorno - socialist
3. alvarado - politics
BBC:
public service broadcaster
operates under Royal charter
funded by television license fee
chairman- sir michael lyons
director- mark thompson
methods used:
1. yourpics@bbc.co.uk
2. text- 61124
3. various international numbers
sky:
owned by Rupert Murdoch
operating since 1989
bskyb owned
internationally accessible
widened his company (increase producers)
methods used:
1. news@sky.com
2. newsonline@bskyb.com
3. skynewsinternational.com/carry/
- Internet has enabled companies to broaden their audiences
- these audiences have now the ability to interact directly with the channels
- consumers are now producers
- 'send in media'
two
- more consumers
- producers are now asking for the consumers to 'send in' media. this may include photos, stories and videos
- technological advances have made it more accessible ( as its cheaper) for most consumers to buy cameras, phones, other technological advances to share their productions.
S
more UGC
more journalists
H
decline in newspapers
more Internet news
more technology
E
license fees (tax)
earn money through your Media (you've been framed)
P
more democratic (everyone has a voice)
captures live events (sell these for money) or (distribute worldwide e.g. 9/11 attacks)
four
- larger audience
- cheaper technology
- news affects all
- all demographics are affected by news
- e.g. newsround for children below the age of 12
- ratings have increased as the political and economic lifestyle of the uk has changed. the uk has been foreced to adapt to this e.g. recession and now all consumers can access blogs and have their own views on the government, people and personalities.
five
bbc news website-->> 12+ 15+ 18+ newsround academic news
sky contact us website-->> 15+ 18+ academic news
six
- consumers have joined websites such as 'www.youtube.com'- now produce media
- youtube found in feb 2005
- available in 34 languages
- viacom regulated
- blocked in: china
morrocco
thailand
iran
pakistan
turkey
libya
.....
additional notes
2010 tution fees protest
-facebook enabled youths to interact with one and other and this in turn hlped stage the protests accross the uk and schools
uk uncut pressure groups
- protest against corporate tax evaders. the public staged protests by sitting inside stores e.g. vodafone, and then read books (not commiting any crimes) and effectively stopped people shopping there.
closing date 30/1/2011
targets include:
tesco
boots
philip green (topshop, burton, etc...)
vodafone
examples:
- philip green avioded £285 million in tax. this could pay for upto 20 000 nurses and 32, 000 students at £9000 per term fees.
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
theories and quotes
hegemony
"the last colony in the british empire"
freeth 1985:27
"social life, nothing is fixed, rigid or definitive. and nothing will be"
antonio gramski
marxism
"capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into social whole, only byb sapping the original sources of all wealth"
'marxism and media studies'
1891- mike wayne
capital imperialism
"western nations dominate the media around the world wich in return effects opn the third world culture imposing their western views and therfore destroying native culture"
'communication and cultural domination'
herb schiller
globalisation
"media globalisation is tightly interweaven with world economy and markert forces"
'children, young and the media globalisation'
cecilia feilitzen and ulla carlsson
post colonialsim
"cultural studies must specialism but also actively from and resist the tyranny of the specialists"
'outside in the teaching machine'
spivak
cultural imperialism
"the americanisation of world culture so often commented on and often deplored might be better described as the discovery of what world culture tastes actually are"
political economy on media
"a political economy of the new media insists on examintion of the cirumstances that give rise to any given distrabution of power and of the consequences consumers andand citizens"
'robin mansell LSE,2004
convergence
"established companies will find in convergence and opportunity to operate more efficiently, increase returns on technology investments and realise other business benefits"
'opporunites and challenges'
stellios papadakis
"the last colony in the british empire"
freeth 1985:27
"social life, nothing is fixed, rigid or definitive. and nothing will be"
antonio gramski
marxism
"capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into social whole, only byb sapping the original sources of all wealth"
'marxism and media studies'
1891- mike wayne
capital imperialism
"western nations dominate the media around the world wich in return effects opn the third world culture imposing their western views and therfore destroying native culture"
'communication and cultural domination'
herb schiller
globalisation
"media globalisation is tightly interweaven with world economy and markert forces"
'children, young and the media globalisation'
cecilia feilitzen and ulla carlsson
post colonialsim
"cultural studies must specialism but also actively from and resist the tyranny of the specialists"
'outside in the teaching machine'
spivak
cultural imperialism
"the americanisation of world culture so often commented on and often deplored might be better described as the discovery of what world culture tastes actually are"
political economy on media
"a political economy of the new media insists on examintion of the cirumstances that give rise to any given distrabution of power and of the consequences consumers andand citizens"
'robin mansell LSE,2004
convergence
"established companies will find in convergence and opportunity to operate more efficiently, increase returns on technology investments and realise other business benefits"
'opporunites and challenges'
stellios papadakis
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Is reality becoming more real? The rise and rise of UGC
a) Citizen journalism is the concept of members of the public "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information".
b) new technologies in 1991, Rodney King, an African-American, after a high speed chase, the officers surrounded him, tasered him and beat him with clubs. The event was filmed by an onlooker from his apartment window. The home-video footage made prime-time news and became an international media sensation, and a focus for complaints about police racism towards African-Americans.
c) Asian Tsunami on December 26th 2004
London bombings on July 5th 2005
shooting at Virginia Tech
Mumbai bombings in India in late November 2008
d) UGC is 'user generated content. It is not necessarily professional and therefore sometimes lacks credibility.
e) A gatekeeper is defined as someone who controls access to something. It also refers to individuals who decide whether a given message will be distributed by a mass medium.
f) "The way around the gatekeepers is with the independent media on the web. The blogosphere, for example, provides an opportunity for independent, often minority and niche views and news to reach a wide audience. In fact uniting disparate people in ‘micro-communities’ is one of the web’s greatest abilities. How else would all those ice fans communicate without the ‘Ice Chewers Bulletin Board?’ And the only place for those who like to see pictures of dogs in bee costumes is, of course, ‘Beedogs.com: the premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes"
g) It is likely that in future there will be fewer and fewer permanent trained staff at news organisations, leaving a smaller core staff who will manage and process UGC from citizen journalists, sometimes known as ‘crowd sourcing.’
Some believe that the mediators and moderators might eventually disappear too, leaving a world where the media is, finally, unmediated. This does raise concerns however. Without moderation sites could be overrun by bigots or fools, by those who shout loudest, and those who have little else to do but make posts The risk of being dominated by defamatory or racist or other hate-fuelled content raises questions about unmoderated content: ‘free speech’ is great as long as you agree with what everybody is saying!
b) new technologies in 1991, Rodney King, an African-American, after a high speed chase, the officers surrounded him, tasered him and beat him with clubs. The event was filmed by an onlooker from his apartment window. The home-video footage made prime-time news and became an international media sensation, and a focus for complaints about police racism towards African-Americans.
c) Asian Tsunami on December 26th 2004
London bombings on July 5th 2005
shooting at Virginia Tech
Mumbai bombings in India in late November 2008
d) UGC is 'user generated content. It is not necessarily professional and therefore sometimes lacks credibility.
e) A gatekeeper is defined as someone who controls access to something. It also refers to individuals who decide whether a given message will be distributed by a mass medium.
f) "The way around the gatekeepers is with the independent media on the web. The blogosphere, for example, provides an opportunity for independent, often minority and niche views and news to reach a wide audience. In fact uniting disparate people in ‘micro-communities’ is one of the web’s greatest abilities. How else would all those ice fans communicate without the ‘Ice Chewers Bulletin Board?’ And the only place for those who like to see pictures of dogs in bee costumes is, of course, ‘Beedogs.com: the premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes"
g) It is likely that in future there will be fewer and fewer permanent trained staff at news organisations, leaving a smaller core staff who will manage and process UGC from citizen journalists, sometimes known as ‘crowd sourcing.’
Some believe that the mediators and moderators might eventually disappear too, leaving a world where the media is, finally, unmediated. This does raise concerns however. Without moderation sites could be overrun by bigots or fools, by those who shout loudest, and those who have little else to do but make posts The risk of being dominated by defamatory or racist or other hate-fuelled content raises questions about unmoderated content: ‘free speech’ is great as long as you agree with what everybody is saying!
Saturday, 4 December 2010
representation of black youths in uk underground rap culture
Men in rap videos are shown to be:
-sexist
-misogynistic
-materialistic
-arrogant
-violent
-reliant on their 'black' persona
-glamourize death by getting shot
-an outlaw + a hustler
-strugglers in the Ghetto
-racist towards other young males (threats) called 'niggers'
UK hip hop
-country’s urban music scene dominates our charts, record shops and iPods
-it’s street music made by people railing against the establishment, the often Black producers hate their Government
-American hip hop sounds glossier and better produced, and the artists look far harder and more serious than anyone coming out of the UK ever could
-endless and hopeless ghettos and projects, a spiralling gun culture, ridiculously big cars. There’s just no comparison to the US.
-UK hip hop scene has battled against for around two decades
-UK garage and hip hop with a heavy Jamaican twist – all warp-speed spitting over raw and dirty beats – is tense and stripped back in a way that makes US hip hop look corporate and commercial
-Our grime stars are happy if they sell 500 or 1,000 white labels in Bow’s Rhythm Division Records; how can that match up against the hundreds of thousands of units that even minor American stars shift around the world?
-Who in the UK can really relate to rants about bitches, cars, plenty of cash and revenge in the projects? The lyrics of Dizzee Rascal, Black Twang, Jehst, Skinnyman or Ty are infinitely more real.
-So why do we continue to lap up 50 Cent or G-Unit who are all about having a blisteringly hard image over some heavy beats and not much else? While we happily hate neo-Conservative America and all it stands for, we’re complicit in being force fed extremely corporate hip-hop-by-numbers at the expense of our own young guns trying to break through
-sexist
-misogynistic
-materialistic
-arrogant
-violent
-reliant on their 'black' persona
-glamourize death by getting shot
-an outlaw + a hustler
-strugglers in the Ghetto
-racist towards other young males (threats) called 'niggers'
UK hip hop
-country’s urban music scene dominates our charts, record shops and iPods
-it’s street music made by people railing against the establishment, the often Black producers hate their Government
-American hip hop sounds glossier and better produced, and the artists look far harder and more serious than anyone coming out of the UK ever could
-endless and hopeless ghettos and projects, a spiralling gun culture, ridiculously big cars. There’s just no comparison to the US.
-UK hip hop scene has battled against for around two decades
-UK garage and hip hop with a heavy Jamaican twist – all warp-speed spitting over raw and dirty beats – is tense and stripped back in a way that makes US hip hop look corporate and commercial
-Our grime stars are happy if they sell 500 or 1,000 white labels in Bow’s Rhythm Division Records; how can that match up against the hundreds of thousands of units that even minor American stars shift around the world?
-Who in the UK can really relate to rants about bitches, cars, plenty of cash and revenge in the projects? The lyrics of Dizzee Rascal, Black Twang, Jehst, Skinnyman or Ty are infinitely more real.
-So why do we continue to lap up 50 Cent or G-Unit who are all about having a blisteringly hard image over some heavy beats and not much else? While we happily hate neo-Conservative America and all it stands for, we’re complicit in being force fed extremely corporate hip-hop-by-numbers at the expense of our own young guns trying to break through
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