Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Advantages and Disadvantages of online newspapers

Advantages -

  • Live updates
  • More practical
  • Favor what you want to see
  • Free (paywalls - Daily telegraph and The Times)
  • Contact papers quickly
  • Comments on news - Audience participation
  • Easy to share
  • More interactive
Disadvantages - 
  • You need internet
  • Constantly updating 
  • Less accessible to the older generation 
  • More information in the paper
  • Pop ups
  • Long term eye strain
  • Technical errors

Monday, November 12, 2018

Media - Newspaper, online, social and participatory media

Exam: An in depth study of online (guardian, daily mail), social (twitter, facebook, instagram) and participatory.
An in depth study of offline, print newspaper.
2 hour exam, worth 45 marks
three ten mark questions, one fifteen mark question.

  • newspaper came about in the 17th century
  • 20th century newspaper was the primary source of media.
  • newspapers do not have to be impartial
  • they have a regulating body - IPSO ( Largley self regulating)
  • Levson inquiry 2011
  • Newspaper industry is in decline.
Popular newspaper (reptops, tabloids)
Sun
Mirror
Star

Mid Market newspaper
Mail
Evening standard
metro
express

Quality newspaper
Telegraph
Guardian 
observer
times
independent
FT
 

CUPPTUNE

C - Continuity: Stories that are already in news continue to run are updated.
U - Unexpectedness: An event that is a shock or out of the ordinary.
P - Personalisation: Stories that include human interest.
P - Proximity: Stories that are closer to home.
T - Threshold: The bigger the impact and reach of the story.
U - Unambiguous: Stories that are easy to understand.
N - Negativity: Bad news is more interesting.
E - Elite Persons: Stories about important people and powerful nations.

News Table


The Sun
The Daily Mail
The Telegraph
Owned by:
It is published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) own this newspaper
David and Frederick Barclay.
Audience:
·         The sun targets mainly adults over the age of 15.
·         Mainly located in Great Britain with some in Scotland
·         More women than men read the sun
·         Few people in London read the Sun.
Readership of the Daily Mail among individuals from the ABC1 social class is higher than among the C2DE social class – 18.3 million and 10.1 million readers respectively.
People of age 65+ are more likely to read this newspaper as young people tend to favour The Daily Star and The Sun.
52% of the Uk population, 23.1 million people. 55% of whom are 15-44.
The daily telegraph targets a well-educated audience, predominantly male.
Online:
The sun broadcasts their news online with free access to everyone who goes on the website.

News is published online, with various access passes, the standard daily pass is £2.00, ranging for the premium yearly subscription of £300!
Circulation:
In March 2018 The Suns circulation was 1,481,876

458487 (November 2017)
Political Alignment:
Conservative

Right, (Conservative)

Article News Language


Daily Mail
The Guardian
Who was involved?
The wife, The husband, the two twins, Neighbours
The wife, the husband and the two twins
What happened?
A man has been held over a suspected hammer attack on twin toddlers that killed one and left the other fighting for life.
A 33 year old man was arrested last night in connection with the killing of one-year-old boy in an incident in Finsbury Park, north London
Where did it happen?
Property in Hackney, north London
Finsbury Park, north London
When did it happen?
Police were called at 11:10pm
Police were called at 11:10pm
How did it happen?
Doesn’t say
Doesn’t say
Why did it happen?
Husband thought the kids weren’t his.
Doesn’t say
What do you notice about the difference in content and how the articles convey this information? 
Gives a brief over view of what, why, where and when with some other detail. Clear to read and find
Includes what, where, who, and when with more information included. Doesn’t include why.
Why do you think that is? ^^^
Tabloid, most of the page is taken up by the headline and picture.
Broadsheet uses one small main picture so that there is more room for the information and also a broadsheet is a lot more formal so needs to incorporate more information.

Thursday, November 8, 2018

Stereotypes

Dominant Ideology - The idea that the Western world is run by a stereotypical business man (white, male, middle class, straight.)

Stereotypes - Media industries use stereotypes because the audience will instantly understand them. Think of stereotype as a 'visual shortcut'. They're repeated so often that we think they're true.

Archetypes - This is the 'ultimate stereotype'

Representation - the way in which people, events and ideas are presented to the audience. (The media takes something that is already there and represents it to us in the way that they choose. These representations are created by the producers (anyone who makes media texts). What they choose to present to us is controlled by a gatekeeper.)

Gatekeeper - Anyone involved in the media who has the power to control what we hear and see in the media.

Moglus - Editors who decisions are not made freely.

Who, What, Why , Where:
Disablility - mental and physical
Regional identity - e.g. Essex
Class
Age - young people
Gender - men
Ethnicity
Sexuality