Tuesday, 5 April 2011

Media Revolution (BBC 2)

How has technology changed the way in which we access our news?

With the uprising of new technology, in the 80's the newspaper industry was forced to modernize under the influence of Rupert Murdoch, he made the industry computerized and influenced the other competitors in the industry, coming to modern date the internet has changed the way consumers read and intake the internet. consumers can get instant news as it happens with the click of a button, slowly newspapers are decreasing in readers, with the modern age, there are different devices which the consumers can get this news from. mobile phones, apple devices can get applications to allow for users to get the content of there newspapers to there mobile devices and will get the content of the news straight to them.

Tuesday, 15 March 2011

Advantages and Disatvantages of the cost of free web.

Disadvantages.

Begin watched all the time

Advertising

Choices are being made for you

Author of "life" magazine said computers know more about him than he does- put into a demographic

We publish too much information about ourselves- religious/ political views etc

Record companies, news publishers and radio broadcasters loose money as people are not paying for their services.

Advantages

It doesn't cost anything

everyone can afford access to the web - equal voice, access and potential

anyone can access material and change/remix it

listen to radio, access news and music for free

easy to access ews,radio and music-internet- Ipod / Iphone / Ipad

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

The Five big ideas

Peering- with online Gaming, gaming company will allow download for games, this reduces costs for everything from shipping to disk and packaging costs, thus making the profit more, once these games are released for a cost there are communities that will, then allow for other users to download this illegally and thus the company will not create any revenue.

Free creativity- the music industry is a prime example of the, remix idea, with the internet people can create anything they any, with any footage or content, the majority of these things are music remixes or mash-ups such as Thunder Busters (AC/DC vs Ghostbusters Mash-up) by Wax Audio. although this is allowed as it is original, people who post video's of content from different artist's can be took off sites such as youtube as then the actual producer will not get any revenue for the video and views.



Democratized- allows us the users to create games, music and different media content, such as super smash flash, this is created with the program flash and has been distributed over the internet, it was based on a Nintendo game, but allows for characters that are not of Nintendo origin to be with in the game.there already has been a first the second is in development. the site is http://www.mcleodgaming.com/
the game created, ( as it inst complete this is the demo)
http://www.mcleodgaming.com/viewflash.php?id=6&type=game

Thinking Globally- With gaming online, there are many forums and blogs for the community to use , here gamers can talk about things such as bugs, mods etc here they are shared and the bugs patched by the users of that community. people from America can talk to people from the the UK and work together to fix such things.

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

The Virtual Revolution

The internet was created by tim berners lee, it was originally was intended to be free, once bill gates decided to create software to be sold.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook and The Social Network

Mark Zuckerberg


Mark, is the creator of facebook or how it was once known "the facebook"



The LongTail Theory

The distribution and inventory costs of businesses successfully applying this strategy allow them to realize significant profit out of selling small volumes of hard-to-find items to many customers instead of only selling large volumes of a reduced number of popular items. The total sales of this large number of "non-hit items" is called the Long Tail.



An example of a power law graph showing popularity ranking. To the right is the long tail; to the left are the few that dominate. Notice that the areas of both regions
match.

Friday, 11 February 2011

Links

Sally Pickford - www.mediaandtheonlineage.blogspot.com

Vle https://hsfc.blackboard.com/webapps/login/

RSS
Media Guardian http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/media/rss

Technology Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology



Breif Internet History