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Afghans tap into Twitter and Facebook as youth find their voice 

There are a few Facebook users in Afghanistan, but now the social media has let the people raise self-expression. Young people have raised their voice for the crucial presidential election due in 2014. In summer a sexual harassment film went viral which was made by a college student who is only 17 years old. There was loads of debates going around, people were posting things on Facebook about the film and how women are ignited heated. They have had debates  with the 17 year old as well to bring out the point. They think the internet is changing everything and that's what has made this boy make that film. stats show that the 17 year old boy is one of the 7.7% of the population of 31 million who has access to the internet.

Statistics:

 2.4 afghans or 7.7% of the population of 31 million have online access through their computers or smartphones. 

74% of them 2.4 afghans use social networking site 

There has been a significant advancement since 2002 

My view: 

I personally think that it is a really good thing that they advancements have improved, but there could be danger of this as the internet has good and bad effects of it. The internet could ruin loads of people life's as it has negative effects as well. 

Citizen journalists

Rodney king:

This was an incident which took place on March 3rd 1991. Rodney King was being beaten by 5 Los Angeles police officers because he was taking drugs. The 5 officers surrounded him in an residential area and hit him as much as they could. The officers struck him 52-56 times with the rod, one officer kicked him 6 times and the other hit him 1 time. A resident in a nearby area videotaped the police officers beating Rodney King. The guys name that videotaped the police officers was George Holliday. He is know known as a citizen journalist because he videotaped the incident without anyone knowing. Four of the officers were charged in the Los Angeles court. 

The reason why it was significant is because it changed peoples views on the police force. The people started questioning themselves that is the police really protecting them or are they not? In some ways it creates that terrifying thought that the police is not protecting them. The relation to the citizen journalists is that the beating was shot by an ordinary man looking out of his window.

7/7 Bombing:

                                       

7th July 2005 London bombings (known as 7/7 bombings) It was a series of co-originated suicide attacks. It targeted civilians by using the London transport system during the the morning rush hour time, when everyone are trying to get to their places. There were four terrorists who took the advantage of the rush hour and placed four bombs, three of them were on the London underground trains and later on of them exploded on the double-decter bus in Tavistock Square. Due to the bombing 52 London civilians were killed and over 700 and more were injured. The Bombs were packed up in rucksacks and left on the locations. This relates to citizen journalism because it was recorded on a mobile phone. 

Mumbai Terroists attacks

                                         
The 2008 Mumbai attacks were twelve co-ordinated shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai, which is India's largest city where most people live. One of the attackers who was caught confessed that the attacks were supported by the pakistan ISI. The attacks began on Wednesday 26th November and lasted until Saturday 29th November 2008. 164 people were killed and 308 were wounded. This related to citizen journalist because the fact that is was recorded on tape by the people in the hotel. 

Asian Tsunami:

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on Sunday 26th December 2004. The resulting tsunami was given various names such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, South Africa tsunami, Indonesian tsunami and boxing day tsunami. The earthquake was caused when the Indian plate was deducted by the Burma Plate and triggered a series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean. 230,000 people were killed in 14 countries. This related to citizen journalism because it was recorded on tape by loads of people who were there at the time. 

Virginia Tech Shooting 

The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting that took place on April 16th 2007. It took place on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. 32 people killed and 17 wounded in two separate attacks, in- between 2 hours apart. The massacre is the deadlliest shooting incident by a single gunman in the U.S. history. This relates to citizen journalism because this video is made by the person who committed the murders. 

Hudson River: 

                                    

US Airways flight 1549 was a flight from LAguadia Airport in New York City to Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina. On January 15th 2009 the Airbus A320-214 flying this route struck a flock of Canada Geese during its initial climb out, the plane lost engine power and had to land in the Hudson River. This relates to citizen jounalism because the whole incident was recorded on tape. 

The rise and rise of UGC

1. Citizen journalist means that when ordinary people generate news because of the improved technology over the year, people are becoming citizen journalists, so ordinary people are distributing news videos on the internet for people. 

2. The first example of news being generated by ordinary people was the Rodney king incident. This was the incident where he was very badly hit by the police officers because they accused him for being under the influence of taking drugs. 

3. Some of the format participation are: message boards, chat rooms, blogs with comments embeded on them, and Q&A. 

4. The difference between professional shot footage and first hand shot footage, is that the professional footage is often more hard hitting and emotive. So professional footage hits the audience much more. The audience feel the situation themselves and they put themselves in that positions. Even though that hand held footage is from there and then, the professional one is more emotive and it hits the audience much more, than hand held. 

5. Gatekeeper are the people who decide what is the news and what isn't. They also decide what will and what won't be broadcasting. So they are the people who make the decision if this piece is he news or is it not. If they say this is a piece of news then it would be broadcasted buy if they say no its not the news then it won't be broadcasted at all. 

6. The role of gatekeeping has changed thoroughly because of user generating content(UGC). This means that normal people post up things about the news. For example people would post up news on Social newtworking sites, youtube, blogs and many more. This is the reason why gatekeeping has changed because even though they decide what has to go on the news, the ordinary people just post up all the serious news and they post it up how it is meant to be, the gatekeepers could even post up false information. 

7. The main concern for the journalists is that they are fearing for the jobs because of the rise of the UGC. This means that people are posting up news of their own over the whole of e-media. In the future journalists think that there would be only a fewer and fewer trained staff at the news organisations. 

Feedback

WWW-Good general sense of topic. A fair amount of media landscape covered. 

EBI-specific example better use of media terminology. Refer to institutions and revise from the power point. 

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News sources...

1) E-media

http://www.youtube.com/user/SourceFed/videos

The news source tat i have found for e-media is an youtube channel called sourcefed. They are a youtube channel who provide videos about the news everyday. They make the news very short and simple, as the videos that they make have a very small duration around 2 minutes. In them 2 minutes they give information on 5 news reports of the day. They make it very attracting and funny as they put humour into it.
The traget audience for this channel would be young people aged 14-18 so the teenagers. The reason why i think that this is the target audience for the channel is because they are doing this to inform the children out their. children hate watching the news, and this it is news but in a much different way for the children to adapt it. I think sourcefed is really engaging with its audience.
The impact of this on new and digital media would be that, people are doing these channels for free, so why would people pay for sky when they can get their news on this channel for free. The only thing is that this only appeals to a younger audience. It also shows how advanced new/digital media has become because before there was no such thing like this that people would be giving out free news like this.

2) Print
http://www.standard.co.uk/

This is an newspaper website, so the very famous newspaper which is given for free outside London tube stations. It is called the London evening standards and it contains loads of daily news about London in the newspapers itself. If you go on their website they would have loads of stories for around the world. The newspaper is a really good paper as it brings in loads of great news for the day. I think loads of people pick up that newspaper everyday as it is given for free. The only way the company can make money is by the advertisements in the newspaper. This newspaper has a wide range of audience from 22 to 45+ the reason why i think that is because all those people who go to office on the tube and they would read it. Even though there are people on tubes over that age but they wont pick this up as most of them would read the guardian.
The impact of this on new/digital media would be that most people would read it on their smartphones, i don't think their newspapers are as popular in today's days as everyone using the internet to get their news.

3) Broadcast

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

BBC news are a free commercial broadcasters they broadcast on TV, Radio and on their website. They have two different times when news comes on, the first one is at 6pm and the other one is at 10pm both of them are national news and start after when they finish local news comes up. They are a really big commercial service who's remit is to inform, entertain and educate. I personally think that they follow their remit as well. BBC reports says that over 97% of UK's population on average spend 19 hours a week consuming BBC services online, TV and Radio.  I think the BBC have a wide range of audience because of the services they provide, they also have loads of different things for all aged people.

Youtube

YouTube apps to allow 'short period' video downloads for offline viewing

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/appsblog/2013/sep/18/youtube-mobile-app-offline-downloads

Youtube mobile app is soon going to allow people download videos for offline viewing. They are going to launch it in November. This was announced on the creators blog for channel owners. The reason why they are doing this is to increase the number of viewers. They want more viewers for the channels out their, people would be able to use this even when they are not connected to the internet. This new feature would allow people to download the videos for a short period of time, so they could watch it without being interrupted because of the poor internet connection. Youtube are later in the year going to provide blogs to how it would all work. The reason why youtube have done this is because they know that 1bn video views daily are done through mobile devices. This tells us that 1bn people everyday watch videos on youtube through there phone. 

Statistical information:

* 1bn video views daily from mobile devices

* 6bn hours videos watch monthly overall 

* Indicates 1.5bn of those are on mobile device 

MY View 

There would be loads of advantages and disadvantages of this short period video downloading. 

* Youtube have took a really smart move as they know that there are 1bn viedo views daily through mobile device. 

* I think what they have thought of coming up with would be successful as it would increase viewers as people would be able to watch the videos offline. 

* On the other hand some people might not have enough storage on their phone to download the videos so that they can watch them. 

* Overall you would need to have internet in the first place to download the video.

* I think this would not be as successful as they are thinking it would be because people would need 3g internet to download the video in the first place, so this would still eventually waste their internet allowance.

Nintendo's 2DS looks like a winner

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/15/review-nintendo-2ds

Summery:  The 2DS is at the very opposite end of the spectrum to PS4 and Xbox, it is  cheap, unsophisticated and kid-friendly.
The reason why the they have launched a new Nintendo 2DS is because when the 3DS was launched in 2011, it was a disaster because it had a poor software, it had a really high price so it was not selling. It brought the whole Nintendo business down in the market as no one was really buying there products.
To pay off the loss of the 3DS, Nintendo are now going to launch the 2DS which is much more better than the 3DS, as it has a much better friendly software and a cheaper price to it.
They are selling it for £110, which is still a lot of money, but it is cheaper than the 3DS .
The 2DS is non-foldable and the 3DS is foldable.
The 2DS boosts all the technical advancements of the 3DS
Nintendo regret after knowing that no one notice the difference in the 3DS, which was the expensive screen they put on.

My view:
I think even the 2DS would just be the market leader for a liottle while only as now days everyone is using the mobile phones for everything.
Nintendo are saying that the 2DS is selling really well, but i think that's only for a little while.
In today's generation i think smartphones have really beaten everything nd they are the market leaders.
Some people might argue and say that no people still do buy games as it has more excitement to it and more pleasure.
They would also say that they get games to play on the game consoles which they don't get on phones. So that's why they would still keep selling.