Free Speech 1 - intro Flashcards
What does the modern media matrix include?
Would argue
Traditional media Social media companies Citizen journalists Traditional media actors Private social media
What do we mean by media?
Means to impart info and ideas to a mass audience and
The acrid disseminating such info and ideas
Let’s think about what this means in context of modern media
What is meant by traditional media?
Print press, broadcast media eg the times and the sun and bbc , ITV, sky impartinf info and ideas though their usual mediums
What is meant by citizen journalists
Using diff forms of social media - blogs and srs to impart info and ideas
What is meant by social media companies
Is fb how procuring their own media content
What is meant by traditional media actors
Using cjs and abs as a source of news , & and as a platform for impartinf infos and ideas- this has created a symbiosis
What is meant by private social media
Users not operating as media
What was traditional media origins founded on
Philosophical foundations
1 What are the philosophical foundations
The argument of truth
Market place of ideas
Argument from self fulfillment
Ad argument from democratic self governance
What is no.2
The notion of fourth estate and its primary function as the public watchdog - observer and guardian v U.K.
What is meant by fourth estate/ public watch dog ? What do you think that means?
It operates as the general public’s eyes and ears by investigating and reporting abuses of power
Check and balance on the executive
Grounded in librarian theory - borin out of 15th cent opposition to authartian press control by crown and church look alter
Important to rem traditional media role prop to advent of the internet - press / broadcast media where th wonky is Orion’s could come with mass audience
Levesion inquiry the traditional media and in particular the press has played a critical role in informing the public on matters of public interest and concern
Pub inter and concern seminar
What is said about traditional media?
Still public watchdog
What about the demise of forth estate
How has social media facilitated cj - citizen journalism
How has social media facilitated cj - citizen journalism
Social media shifted the media paradigm
Created a symbiosis with traditional media
Us supreme ct - packingham v North Carolina
P. E.w research statistics
The rise of cj: a new fifth estate?
Observed by commentators such as later Cohen , cram , Calvert and towns and
