Conference Notes

Notes

Media Power?

• What the media allows us to see as consumers and what it hides from us to ensure certain representations remain the same and the constant ideology isn't changed.

What has the media done for us?

• Brought new ideas and shared content 
• allows people to express their personal opinions on social media sites
• gives people the ability to show confidence behind 'the screen'  

Downsides

• Bullying has been an issue that has risen due to social media and the ability to give people te freedom to say what they want in posts/tweets etc.
• Abuse has been an issue also this mainly counts for cyber abuse on sites such as Twitter or Facebook.

Media power over the government allows opinions to up rise and citizen power to become popular due to citizen journalism and the public's ability to share their own daily events.

Media and democracy show a link and allows the public to have a platform available for debate in important issues  i.e. Political issues

The internet has the ability to spread positivity and negativity according to the producer of the information that is being distributed.

Political views and opinions can be heard due to media power and the internet. 

The decline of the newspaper industry-

The norm; free newspapers are now distributed even though news has to be printed/produced and distributed faster than ever before due to the counterattack from the internet. This then rises costs and decreases profit causing journalism to go down hill which makes news industries to make journalists redundant due to a cut in costs that newspapers are trying to make. 

Social media- bringing social change. The media is not 'claiming power' but instead 'giving power' to the people in it's ability to spread messages in a short space of time ( Natalie Fenton)

The news' ability to change sotries and the media's ability to cause controversy on certain topics. 

Chris Jefferies issue proved to be false however he was published on the news 8 times for a murder that he didn't commit due to his 'weird' or unusual look that isn't socially accepted. This was done by newspapers simply for an increase in sales.

Cover images are usually 'touched up' or changed slightly to make the person seem more strange to match the cover line of the newspaper i.e. "psychopathic man..."