Friday, 19 October 2012

Media Story

Ashley Cole Fined For Twitter Outburst

 Footballer Ashley Cole has been hit with a £90,000 fine for his foul-mouthed twitter outburst    

 towards the FA after hearing about the written reasons by the governing body for John Terry's     
 racism ban he tweeted “Hahahahaa, well don #fa I lied did I. #BUNCHOFT**TS.”
  Cole apologised soon after but has still been fined  less than a week’s wages 
 after admitting a charge of bringing the game into disrepute.


Reading this news article i found myself to be in the middle, as i think that what Ashley Cole 

said was wrong especially expressing his foul-mouthed feelings like that on a major social 

networking platform where millions can see what he tweets, however i don't agree with the fine 

that he received. the story can be argued both ways, one way that he has the freedom of 

speech, therefore should be allowed to express his feelings, however there is a more     

appropriate way of doing that, as in the past has been fined for previous twitter outbursts 

Friday, 12 October 2012

We’ll smash you up, Amir

This story in the news is about a masked thug who try's to threaten boxer Amir khan through a online video, ranting about the smash up between Amir khan and his fellow gang members. The threat was uploaded and shown yesterday on the e-media platform youtube , four days after Amir fought of this gang who tried to carjack his £100,000 range rover.




My thought on this media news article is overall negative, my reason for this is that the masked thug as seen in the picture above is a fake, my reasons for this is that he says that he has amir khans car keys that he stole from the fight, yet he holds up car keys to a porche, where at the scene of the fight it was said that amir khans was driving his £100,000 range rover, so this leaves me thinking that this video is a scandal, and publicity stunt due to the proof not matching the evidence.


Thursday, 4 October 2012

Friday News


Twitter trolls made me feel hated ... but I won’t change



A vicious stream of Twitter attacks left X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos feeling she was “one 


of the most hated women in Britain”. Tulisa says she is targeted daily by cruel online trolls but is 


determined not to get upset.




The problem with celebrities these days is that they can't take the criticism they invite from the general public. They encourage their public to come and chat directly to them via twitter and then are surprised and disgusted when they find out there are people out there who don't adore them. The thing about it is, I'm pretty sure her public image is not as popular as she thinks it is, due to the things she has done in the past, however I think that people should forget about the past and think about the present as she can be seen as a role model to some people as she is an example of someone who has come from a deprived area and has made it big, therefore people should respect that fact and move away from the past instead of bringing it back up social networking sites.

An example of Tulisa's 'Trolls'



Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Virtual Revolution (BBC, 2010)



  • Tim Berners Lee -> Invented the internet -> around about 2 billion people are now online -> free for people to use, no profit made -> Decentralised  
  • Digital Divide - split between digital haves and digital have nots 
  • Al Gore -> refers to the internet as an empowering tool, 'exciting and revolutionary'
  • billion pounds a week -> spent on the internet (e-commerce)
  • 5 million users use dating sites and 18 million reading blogs (mainly west london) 
  • Internet revolution -> Identical to industrial revolution
  • 65 million users around the world use Wikipedia -> challenges authority -> people power -> allows ordinary people to shape information -> Accuracy!?!
  • 6th august 1991 -> first website launched, 1965 -> Email started
  • MITS -> created first computer, Altair 8800
  • Microsoft owned 90% of the market -> pressurised company's to have computers with windows software preinstalled
  • Shaun Fanming -> Owner of Napster -> allowed others to share music online for free -> global piracy -> Metallica one of the bands enraged by Napster
  • Chad Hurley -> CEO and co-owner of youtube -> youtube allows creative freedom, allows everyone to be seen -> Pluralism, UCG
  • Ebay 21 million hits a month , Amazon 16 million hits a month, 1/3 people have a Facebook page
  • Jimmy Whales (Co founder of Wikipedia) ->editors can lock and administrators can delete -> CENSORSHIP -> due to pressure/struggle by police
  • Is the web unequal?!? -> Does it mirror hierarchy in the real world
  • Web can be seen as a space of perpetual innovation -> provides extraordinary opportunities
  • ^ BINARY OPPOSITION, GOOD VS EVIL

Thursday, 27 September 2012

Friday Media


'Please, please tell us you're OK': Anguished parents of teacher, 30, who ran away with Megan, 15, plead with them to make contact

Jeremy Forrest, 30, a maths teacher and pupil Megan Stammers 15 ran off together on a love journey to France, There have been no sightings of the pair since they left Britain and Megan’s parents have issued an urgent appeal for their daughter to contact them and let them know she is safe and well.

Reading the article about the fifteen year old schoolgirl who's run off with her thirty year old teacher, my view on this story is overall negative, I think that what these two have done is wrong, firstly its paedophilia which is not taken lightly in this society as it is seen as a taboo, also the media are portraying him as a sex offender, which may give bad publicity to England as both fled to an EU Country. Overall I find this sickening as the teacher has breached a code of conduct between a student, therefore jeopardising his position as a teacher, both have not done themselves any favours as both will be frowned upon by society.



Tuesday, 25 September 2012

New Media Institution Case Study


        Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin 


What other internet sites do they own?



What is its revenue?
Annual revenue: US$ 37.905 billion (2011)

What is its overall worth?
Worth $200 Billion

Five key facts about the institution
620 million visitors visit Google.com daily.
97% of Google Revenue comes from their advertising services.
Google started in January, 1996 as a research project at Stanford University, by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Google is the most popular site in the US, Iran and South Korea, 
Around a third (31.1pc) of Google’s traffic comes from the US, with 8.1pccoming from India and 3pc from the UK

Three quotes about the institution
If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist. 




We want Google to be the third half of your brain. 




Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo. 




Company’s corporate homepage

“Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”.
Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University in 1995. By 1996, they had built a search engine (initially called BackRub) that used links to determine the importance of individual webpages.
Our company has packed a lot into a relatively young life. Since Google was founded in 1998, we’ve grown to serve hundreds of thousands of users and customers around the world.

Google facts

·         Founded

1998

·         Founders

Larry Page and Sergey Brin

·         Incorporation

September 4, 1998

·         Initial public offering (NASDAQ)

August 19, 2004

·         Headquarters

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway

Mountain View
CA 94043


Wikipedia:
History -> Google began in January 1996, as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin -> Both went to Stanford University, Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine "BackRub", eventually, they changed the name to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol", The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997.


Advertising -> In 2011, 96% of Google's revenue was derived from its advertising programs. Google advertisements can be placed on third-party websites in a two-part program. The sister service, Google AdSense, allows website owners to display these advertisements on their website, and earn money every time ads are clicked. In an attempt to advertise its own products, Google launched a website called Demo Slam, Demo Slam is "a place where creative and tech-savvy people can create videos to help the rest of the world understand all the newest and greatest technology out there.










Google Infographic



















Top 10 Companies


Facebook
Launched in February 2004, 
Founded by Mark Zuckerberg 
Annual revenue 3.71 billion
Worth $78 Billion

Twitter
March 2006
Jack Dorsey, 
Annual revenue US$ 140 million (2010) -> Expected to grow 86.3% to US$259.9 million in 2012.
Worth $8 billion

eBay 
$25 Billion
September 3, 1995
Pierre Omidyar
Annual Revenue $ 11.651 billion (2011)

Google
Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
September 4, 1998
Annual revenue: US$ 37.905 billion (2011)
Worth $200 Billion

Amazon 
Worth $49 Billion 
July 1994 
Jeff Bezos
Annual Revenue$ 48.07 billion (2011)

MySpace
Owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake
Launched in August 2003
Annual Revenue $109 million (2011)
Estimated to be worth $50–200 million

BBC
Founded 1 January 1927
John Reith
Annual Revenue £4.741 billion

Yahoo 
Worth $19 Billion
March 1, 1995
Jerry Yang, David Filo
Annual Revenue 4.98 billion (2011)

Microsoft
Founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen
April 4, 1975
Annual Revenue US$ 73.72 billion
Worth $230 Billion

Groupon
Estimated Value $10 billion
November 2008
Founded by The Point, Inc.
Annual Revenue $ 1.610 billion (2011)