New Media

Question 1

BBC news stats

Answer 1

Most popular : 60% market share

Question 2

Media reform coalition

Answer 2

1 in 3 people access news through online resources

Question 3

GUMG

Answer 3

reports on the Palestinian were heavily relied on by Israeli sauces so ignored Israeli provocations

Question 4

Turkle

Answer 4

calls new media users ‘cyborgs’ suggesting they live their lives on the web and are devoted to their devices

Greater anxiety and isolation

Question 5

Livingstone

Answer 5

children connect more with media than family e.g. parents have to text them to gain attention at mealtimes

Question 6

Keen

Answer 6

new media chaotic - no governing moral code
selective truth e.g. 21 Social media and blogs = platform for narcissistic self
broadcasting & shameless self promotion

- Lots of new media unchecked and lead to lack of considered analysis and expertise

Sites such as Wikipedia subject to abuse and bias and are unreliable. They also lead to generation of plagiarists and intellectual thieves

Question 7

Curran and Seaton

Answer 7

2 perspectives on new media: Debates about new media
- Neophiles (similar to Postmodernists): Optimistic about the spread of new media. New technology offers consumers more choice and opportunity. Effectively spreads democracy

Cultural pessimists: Suggests that new media is not really new at all. Argues that interactivity is an illusion because of ownership issues. New media content has led to a decline in the quality of popular culture.

Question 8

Harvey

Answer 8

suggests that digital television may have dramatically increased the number of channels for viewers to choose from but this has led to a dumbing down of popular culture. He suggests that television transmits a ‘candy floss’ culture that speaks to everyone in general and no one in particular.

Question 9

Cornford and Robins

Answer 9

argue that new media is not new as old technology such as TV and telephone landlines are integral to it such as computer game consoles and broadband etc. The only new thing about new media is the speed e.g. World Trade Centre in ‘real-time’.

Question 10

Seaton

Answer 10

Citizen journalism

Question 11

Itzoe

Answer 11

gues that the internet is ‘a loose
and anarchic confederation of millions of users
around the world who communicate in perhaps
the freest forum of speech in history.’

Question 12

Cornford and Robins

Answer 12

are sceptical that new media will lead t.o more democratic communications. They suggest that through a series of assertive tactics such as takeovers, patents etc. media corporations seek to monopolize key strategic links within the new media

Question 13

Cornford and Robins

Answer 13

agree that this creates
more consumer choice but suggests there are
side effects such as customer surveillance,
encouraging materialism and furthering
capitalist domination.

Question 14

Jenkins

Answer 14

suggests new media developed as a result of media corporation’s investments and owning different types of media makes it more desirable for companies to develop content across a variety of media platforms. The internet is dominated by a small number of media corporations e.g. Microsoft has developed most of the software for accessing the net as well as being an ISP

Question 15

Curran

Answer 15

Over three-quarters of the 31 most visited websites are affiliated with the world’s largest media corporations

Question 16

Hill and Hughes

Answer 16

) found that only 6% of webpages were devoted to political issues.