NDM 15

Article

French journalism school executive accused of plagiarism

The executive director of a journalism school has been suspended after being accused of plagiarism.

Agnès Chauveau apparently cut and pasted parts of articles that had appeared in a newspaper called Le Monde and other French publications for her columns published on the Huffington Post website.

Bruno Patino, director of the school at the respected Institute of Political Sciences, known as Sciences Po, wrote to students and staff on Monday saying the allegations could not be taken lightly. “Plagiarism is a serious matter in journalism,” he said in an email.

Plagiarism is wrong, and now this journalism school, is going to be under attack due to what a person who is very high up in the school has done. That is a school boy error that Students are not allowed to do let alone a executive director. This will now give a negative representation on this school causing less people to be interested in it for the right reasons. 

NDM 14

Article

Don’t Blame Social Media for Ferguson’s Troubles.

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch, made a controversial comment, in regards to the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, of Michael Brown (pictured). He claimed social media was to blame for the change of stories that were told by some of the witnesses. Social media apparently wavered peoples statement due to the claims that the shooting was a racist attack. He also blamed it for the 24 hour news institutions getting a bad representation.   

The article also says that social media is not to be blamed for the riots and after events of Ferguson as the social media gave another view that news channels were not able to give that same live view because there were objects  that were hurled at institutions, causing them to retreat. 

In my opinion, I think social media is not to blame, but social media always makes opinions and stories escalate, due to the amount of people who are able to read it and get views and opinions from other people. Truthfully, if there was no access to opinions about the Ferguson, alot of people would have no idea that this happened, because alot of youth get their news from social media. 

NDM 13

Sheffield United will Ban Jessica Ennis-Hill Twitter Trolls for Life

Article

Due to Jess Ennis' statement about Ched Evans, she was cursed for her statements. on Twitter Sheffield United fans said "they wished she was raped too" That remarked caused an uproar around the football scene because she didnt deserve to be treated in that way. In my opinion, the tweets were very rude and should be

dealt with by the club and the police due to the severity.

NDM 12

Article

In this article, an online magazine narrative journalism is set to launch this month, but its founders claim they will take no notice of traffic as they care about stories, not "clicks". It will also not feature any ads which means they would be not be making any money from ad, which newspapers were known for in the past.

This is good because it seems like an honest magazine which we are seeing less of since the Sun and other newspaper companies went subscription 

Web 2.0 Participation and Hegemony

1) Research the Ian Tomlinson case. What would the traditional, hegemonic view of the police be in a case like this? How did new and digital media create a different story? What does the police officer's subsequent aquittal suggest about the power of new and digital media?
The traditional is that policemen, and public service workers get away with murder. The new and digital media created a different story due to introduction of user generated content in which people can now film events happening and this happened as this case was seen and uploaded on YouTube and as a result the policeman had to suffer some consequences. Even though he got done for manslaughter he still got away with it showing that the police will still get away with stuff and if we try to question their judgement we could be seen as breaking the law.
2) What does the author argue regarding whether hegemony is being challenged by Web 2.0? 
The author argues that alot of online media are corrupt. this is because of Yahoo displaying Nazi images, which is immoral in France and the indoctrination of people on social media.

3) In your opinion, does new and digital media reinforce dominant hegemonic views or give the audience a platform to challenge them?

I think that digital media reinforce both views because people are trapped in the online world by google, but google give oppurtinites to allow people to make it in the online industry. The audince can challange them, but because the are so big and needed to make the internet the internet, regardless of the press they get, they still will be used and valued 

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2.Digital journalism
3.Impact of new media
4.Celebrity nudes
5.Premier league coverage
6.Twitter gives clues to help find murderers
7.Social media friends
8.Terrorist on social media
9.Page 3 ad banned
10.Racism on twitter
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NDM No.11

How can football tackle the social media hate merchants?

Article 

This article is talking about the many ways we can combat racism on social media after Yaya Toure was racially abused on Twitter. 

The leaders say twitter is being tackled about the situation, but its not being tackled hard enough according to alot of the players.

I think twitter is a site that people can be racist on without any major repercussions, this allows more people to carry on doing it and it doesn't get tackled in anyway which means there would not be an ending in this situation

News article number 10

Sun Page 3 girl ad banned for sexism

Article

This article shows that the sun newspaper have banned an ad that allows one lucky person to go on a date with a page 3 model. This ad was subsequently banned due to the objectification of women as men are gambling to meet the models whom are naked on a daily basis, implying they are cheap and quick.

In my opinion, I think that the ad should have not been banned, because it  is only objectifying women who have asked to be objectified, by sending a picture of their selves daily to stimulate the type if guys who will gamble to win a date with them

The rise and rise of UGC

Examples
Tsunami in 2004
Los Angeles police officers beat up a man after a high speed chase
London bombings


Benefits to institutions
Its cost nearly nothing for institutions to get videos from citizens, which means they will not have to fork out money on professionals to do the job for them. It may be exclusive, which means people will have to go onto that particular institution's channel to see that footage.

Benefits to audience
The footage has less chance of being biased and staged, which makes the audience more inclined to believe the news is true.

Wider issues and debates
What happens to the journalist if more and more citizen footage becomes available?
Will citizen journalist get paid as its becoming more and more of a help to institutions?

SHEP

Social
Social media now sees videos before the news, meaning that news isnt breaking anymore due to the amount of people knowing about it.

Historical
Camera phones were limited so, it was harder to video events. Therefore the was less citizen journalism before.

Economical
Right now it cost alot less to get a citizen video than it does for a professional to video the scene where the drama has already happened.

Political



Questions

What is meant by the term ‘citizen journalist’?

A: The concept of citizen journalism is based upon public citizens "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information

What was one of the first examples of news being generated by ‘ordinary people’?

A: The LAPD beating up a man, got caught on video

List some of the formats for participation that are now offered by news organisations.

A:message boards, chat room, Q and A, have your says, blog, social media

What is one of the main differences between professionally shot footage and that taken first-hand (UGC)?

A:Quality 

What is a gatekeeper?

A :A gatekeeper is an organisation who decides what is shown on the news. They have the final say.

How has the role of a gatekeeper changed?

What is one of the primary concerns held by journalists over the rise of UGC?

News article week 6

"How terrorists are using social media"

Article

This article is about the way ISIS is using social media to tweet and post things up to get a reaction and become more known around the world. This is because there is no censorship in social media, meaning they can say what they want without any real repercussions. Also, so many people are on social media which means they can see, those tweets and pictures which means they will be getting infamous coverage. But all press is good press, meaning they are now becoming bigger due to social media and spreading fear around our world.

News Values

Immediacy: has it happened recently?

Immediacy is more important than ever due to news breaking on Twitter or elsewhere online. However, this in turn changes the approach of other news sources such as newspapers as the news will probably already be broken so different angles might be required. Newspapers now contain more comment or opinion rather than the breaking story.

Familiarity: is it culturally close to us in Britain?
Familiarity in my opinion is less important, this is because social media has become more and more international, meaning that news stories are now online before they are in the news, meaning the news may have to search for different news in different places.
Amplitude: is it a big event or one which involves large numbers of people?
Big event stories have been taken over by websites and social media, meaning other news sources have to put an extra spin on the story by bringing in other people to shed their expertise on the story.
 Frequency: did the event happen fairly quickly?
Frequency is very important, because breaking news stories are harder to come by due to social media. So news sources have to rely on events that happen quite quickly n order to report breaking news. This is because if social media gets it first, its not regarded as "breaking"
Unambiguity: is it clear and definite?
This is now harder for news sources to figure this out because social media and newspaper websites allow comments, which means there are many sides and avenues that people can now read, leaving a many sides to an argument meaning other news sources may get confused.
Predictability: did we expect it to happen?
On social media, different people are more in the public eye, so when they tweet or caption something, people can try and look into it, meaning when they do something wrong, it could have been a build up of something that the tweeted about.

Surprise: is it a rare or unexpected event?
I think there is surprise on social media as well as news because there is only a certain amount of  journalism someone can do, meaning there can be certain issues like unexpected deaths that journalist couldn't get to until the story was released. 

Continuity: has this story already been defined as news?
There is a lot of stories that can be seen as continuity on social media as there is always more news from someone on social media. Depending on whether it gets enough coverage, it may get on to other news sources. 

Elite nations and people: which country has the event happened in? Does the story concern well-known people? 
Big countries in the world like America it would get more coverage on social networking than countries such as a smaller one. If it is America it would affect most people in the world including us in the UK, due to trade, however if it was Grenada, it wouldn't affect as many people. People in Grenada may be tweeting it, but it wouldn't trend and other people wouldn't see it.
Negativity: is it bad news?
I think by having social media, anything can be bad news, depending on the points of views people have, however, depending on the majority, news sources will have to see if most people think it is bad news or not.


Balance: the story may be selected to balance other news, such as a human survival story to balance a number of stories concerning death.