Case study Powerpoints reviews:

Nadeem: Social media Twitter

. Biggest shifts in the way people now communicate
. major tool of globalization
. top of social networking monopoly
. gained a lot of power
. very dominant
. 500 million users through 2012 statistics
. plays a passive role in consuming media, people relying too much on twitter
. declining in privacy- considered positive feature = citizen journalism
. challenges traditional media example magazines
. Hashtag icon is apart of a large social group, sharing and saving information creates a deeper interaction
. discovery page - the Guardian, BBC news, world wide events being shared on website
. Pluralist view would argue that providing audiences with interactivity (positive effect)
. decline in privacy
. political and social implications
. 'Gate keeping' stories selected that are worth reading
. Marxist = hegemonic new point being provided

Navneet: Impact of New and digital media in Facebook

. 'Global village' Marshall Mcluhan can connect with others world wide
. UK statistics 25-34 year olds - size of audience changed , adults interact not young people
. president Obama used power of FB during 2008 campaign
. Ed Manky- argues privacy concerns
. "The internet is an empowering tool" Al gore
. Tunisia and libya revolution
. Facebook- 5 million users in Egypt
. Government blocked internet access and messaging service
. China strong censorship policy
. 2009 Facebook blocked - government realized power of Facebook

Harpal: Music industry

. Spotify= commercial music streaming service
. launched in 2008
. free app
. empowers audience, less needs of downloading
. access to 20 milllion songs
. 24 million users a month
. advantage- lots of space, can be used on the go, no need to download
. iTunes - apple 2001, media player and media library
. piracy illegally downloading songs- new and digital media contributing to less artists income
. UGC users generated context

NDM story

Spotify says it's a matter of time before it overtakes Apple's itunes in Europe: 

Summary of the story: 

Streaming music service declares the fact that it has added 11 million active users in the UK alone in the last four months, meaning it is close to overtaking Apple's itunes as the biggest music service in Europe. Kevin Brown has stated that "some of our partners are saying that Spotify is now generating more revenue each month across Continental Europe than iTunes." This emphasizes the fact that Spotify is now becoming more popular with a larger audience/users. This illustrates the fact that download sales are declining and Spotify is increasing, Brown also mentioned that a "significant amount" of the million new British Spotify users are paying for a subscription, rather than listening to its free, advertising-supported version. According to research, Spotify stated in March 2013 that globally, it had 24 active users, including 6 million paying subscribers. 

Opinion : I think that the fact that spotify is taking over itunes will cause a concern for some musicians and songwriters, as they will be worried about the streaming's ability to sustain artists careers- a sale of 99p itunes download, which spotify stream is much cheaper. 

Nuts Magazine to close: 

The Nuts magazine is to close due to the portrayal of sexism and how women are portrayed through their magazines, The magazine has faced many criticisms due to the portrayal of women and many have argued that the magazine is becoming more like "porn" to the nude images of women, in my opinion I think the fact that the magazine is closing is going extreme, due to the fact that the audience should be used to seeing nude images as women are portrayed in this type of way in many other industries, for example, music videos, films etc, however, it could also be argued that the fact that these magazines are sold in public places (shops) cold effect the younger audience (children) into thinking this is what women are supposed to look like, or into believing that women should be posing nude for money. Therefore, it could be a balanced argument arguing from the negative and positive side. 

Easter Holidays NDM stories :

NDM STORIES- MAGAZINES

Nuts magazine to close

Summary :

Nuts, the weekly that along with arch-rival Zoo shook up the men's magazine market a decade ago but attracted criticism for their sexist portrayal of women, is to close. The magazine has suffered years of sales decline, along with most other paid-for titles in the men's sector. Nuts had a circulation of just over 53,000 in print in the second half of 2013, according to the latest official ABC sales figures, plus nearly 9,000 digital editions. Nuts and Zoo's circulations dropped by one third year on year in the second half of 2013, after both titles' publishers pulled them from Co-op stores. This came after they refused the supermarket chain's demand that both magazines be distributed with modesty bags to shield pictures of naked women from shoppers. Argued that the magazine defined from the outset by publishing more overtly sexual content than more expensive monthly rivals such as Loaded and FHM, which were forced go more downmarket in response.  

opinion : 

more people are becoming disgusted by nude images in magazines. 

More people are now concerned with magazines that display too much nudity. Newspaper publishers use e-commerce technology on website photos

summary :

The Daily Telegraph and Daily Mirror are experimenting with technology that turns online photographs into adverts, When people visit pages on the papers' websites, the technology scans the content and works out the most relevant advertisements to display. Then it overlays images of products that readers may wish to buy on the pictures. Paqvalén said other groups - such as The Guardian, DMGT and theHuffington Post, plus the magazine publisher Gruner+Jahr - are also planning to experiment with the technology. 

Conde Nast to replace House and Garden and easy living online editions: 

Summary : Condé Nast is launching a online lifestyle offering closely resembling Pinterest, House, replacing its House & Garden and Easy Living websites. The website is billing as a "sophisticated design, decoration, food and lifestyle" website. The Easy Living website audience – it had an average of 192,000 monthly unique users in the three months to the end of January 2014, according to Google Analytics figures – will be automatically redirected to House. Condé Nast is aiming to build this figure to 300,000 within 18 months and 500,000 in three to four years.

My Opinion : Magazines are now starting to adapt more to new and digital media to get more views and more users, this is done by creating websites. 

NDM STORIES 

1: 20 best iPhone and iPad apps and games this week:

Summary: This week's selection includes pregnancy tracking, vintage newspaper clippings, motorcycle racing, Family Guy, wind-up knights and Embarrassing Bodies. As ever, prices are correct at the time of writing, but may have changed by the time you read this. (Free + IAP) means in-app purchases are used within the app. One born every minute now it has an app aimed at mothers-to-be, helping them track their pregnancies, look at fetal development images, plan doctor visits, and tick off to-do lists. More than that, Here and then from the British newspaper app is for anyone interested in the last 200+ years of history, offering daily reports from the British Newspaper Archive based on that day, another app is the Carousel by Dropbox Carousel which is owned by cloud storage firm Dropbox – its brand new app for storing and browsing your photos and videos. The app automatically uploads shots as you take them, and you can ping them to friends privately from within the app too, this is a free app to download.

Opinion: There are many more apps which have been launched, some for free and some which need to be paid for, however, regardless the prices of these apps the fact that there are apps for many programmes which airs on TV means that apps and new and digital media are challenging traditional media, in this case viewers don’t need to wait to watch their favourite show on TV but can now go on the app and get updated by the latest info.