NDM Case Study Question 13 Presentations...

Nadeem - Twitter

- Twitter has become the most dominant source worldwide.

- Twitter arises political issues such as the Arab Spring were consumers were able to interact with each other.

- Audiences are relying on Twitter more, such as believing whatever news consumers Tweet (Privacy).

- Audiences are able to socialise with people, also by using the famous Twitter icon '#' hashtag it brings consumers more connected and relate to what they are interested in.

- 'Discover Page' is a source connected with Twitter were audiences are able to access the news and other activities as they are most likely to stay on Twitter and not use any other providers.

Navneet - Facebook Democracy

- 'Global Village' audiences are able to interact more.

- The largest demographics that use Facebook are 25-34 year olds.

- There are many dominant ideologies on Facebook encouraging activists to create groups and socialise more worldwide.

- Citizen journalism (UGC) such as the Arab Spring, connected consumers in a positive way however there could be negative points to having a Facebook account such as bullying etc.

- China's government had blocked Facebook and western county sites in 2009, society became more fragmented (censorship policy).

Harpal - Music Industry (Spotify)

- Spotify has more than 20 million songs to stream free convenient to audiences, it was introduced in 2008.

- Apple has introduced iTunes and now have iTune Radio another provider.

- Privacy has become a problem as consumers are illegally downloading music.

- Consumers could also be producers, however downloading illegally makes it harder for artists as they get very little income.

- Empowerment, user generated content mostly on music websites such as YouTube, Daily Motion etc, allows unknown artists to become successful such as Justin Bieber, Connar Maynard, Rebecca Black etc.

Gagandeep - Music Industry
- The Music Industry is not making profit as the younger generation download music illegally.
- The CD revenues have dropped 11.7%.
- Moral Panic is created amongst society.
- 'Digital economy act' (DEA).
- Google don't protect content therefore are not responsible for privacy.

Jinan - Smartphones
- Traditional audiences would use smartphones for work purposes, however younger audiences now have smartphones as they are the new gadgets.
- Online shopping and interacting with others on social media websites such as Facebook.
- Moral Panics such as the Arab Spring was a impact in smartphones as audiences recorded content and uploaded it instantly onto social sites.
- Citizen Journalism and user generated content.
- More democracy as there are less gate keepers now.

Zulq - Sky
- Sky Go, Sky+, and Sky on Demand.
- There are more active audiences who are mostly interested in sports.
- Pre-watershed is no more as audiences are able to record and watch it whenever they like.
- Catch up services are provided to suit audiences when convenient for them.
- Time shifting impact (Time scheduling changed).

Samuel - Music Industry
- Technology has changed as audiences don't listen or buy music in the traditional ways anymore.
- Audiences are download music illegally, this is impacting the music industry causing them to lose profit as well as the artists who create the music.
- Audiences have more power as they share user generated content on social media sites such as YouTube.
- Examples; Justin Bieber, Sean Kingston, Connar Maynard, Rebecca Black etc.
- The industry has been disruptive and TV has become passive.

Stefan - Instagram
- Huge active audiences created accounts since 2012.
- The social site allows videos and pictures to be posted up (selfie and '#' hashtag).
- Facebook bought instagram for £629 million which kept the most two popular social sites active.
- Young audiences however may be impacted by the disruptive take over of new and digital media and effect their education.
- Social medias are all connected now, synergy (Facebook & Instagram) attracting a larger audience.

Harvey - Digital Cameras
- Digital cameras now save money for high quality box office movies.
- The time processing is much effective.
- User generated content of audiences making their own footage and posting it on social media sites.
- Audiences have access to the production aspects.
- There is a huge difference in quality.

Hargio - Gangnam Style
- User generated content and interactivity.
- Gangnam Style a popular music video created by a Korean artist, a parody targeted towards middle class Korean's.
-Global music video.
- 'Meme' viral video that audiences copy such as the Harlem Shake.
- Online communities and societies created on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter etc.

Gagan - BBC iPlayer
- Control and ownership controlled by the BBC such as the licence fee.
- It is a flexible lifestyle as audiences can Time shift programmes by recording them or watching it on demand and iplayer.
- Online have more commercials than TV now.
- Marxist's still have control however as it's still BBC content.
- A pluralism's point of view would be having pull power in when they want to watch iplayer.

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New York Times launches data journalism site The Upshot. Publisher's 'conversational' replacement for Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight takes on Vox and Washington Post's Wonkblog...

The New York Times's The Upshot website

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/apr/22/new-york-times-launches-data-journalism-site-the-upshot

The New York Times has launched a new site featuring a combination of data-driven and explanatory reporting. The Upshot combines analysis of the news with data visualisations. It faces competition from other high profile rivals including the Washington Post's Wonkblog and Vox Media and Ezra Klein’s explanatory journalism site Vox. The paper first announced the project in March and has been working on it since Nate Silver left the paper and took his FiveThirtyEight blog to ESPN. The Upshot's editor, David Leonhardt, a former Washington bureau chief and economics columnist at the New York Times, wrote on its Facebook page on Monday that the site's main goal is help people to better understand big, complex stories like Obamacare, inequality and the real-estate and stock markets. 

The Upshot will do this, he wrote, "by writing in a direct, plain-spoken way, the same voice we might use when writing an email to a friend. We’ll be conversational without being dumbed down. "We will build on all of the excellent journalism the New York Times is already producing, by helping readers make connections among different stories and understand how those stories fit together."

- Washington Post's Wonkblog and Vox Media and Ezra Klein’s explanatory journalism site Vox.

- The Upshot's editor, David Leonhardt.

- The site will use graphics and interactives to help non-experts understand the news.

- "I don’t think this is about a competition between these sites to see which will emerge victorious. There is more than enough room for any site that is providing journalism of this kind to succeed. Given there’s a hunger for conversational journalism and database journalism, as long you’re giving people reporting that’s good, you’re going to succeed."

- The Upshot, according to Leonhardt. He wrote: "One of our highest priorities will be unearthing data sets and analysing existing ones — in ways that illuminate and, yes, explain the news. As with our written articles, we aspire to present our data in the clearest, most engaging way possible." 

I think the New York Times would benefit a lot from The Upshot new site as a larger demographic audience would be attracted to it encouraging others to interact as well. The site would help many individuals to understand the news which visuals and easier ways to understand content. Allowing the company to annouce this on Facebook a social media site is an advantage as it would spread across attracting new audiences and appeal to consumers to subscribe with The New York Times.

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Netflix announces $1 billion revenues and higher prices for new subscribers. Movie and TV service says $1-2 increase in monthly rate will not affect current customers and will go towards buying more content...

The Netflix headquarters in Los Gatos, California.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/apr/21/netflix-higher-prices-revenue-subscribers-content

Netflix announced Monday that it would raise prices for new subscribers and use the new funds to buy more content. Netflix said revenues had passed $1 billion and its subscriber base had grown to 48 million members worldwide. The price increase will go into effect later this quarter and will add between $1 and $2 more per month, depending on the country subscribers live in. In the US Netflix subscriptions currently cost $7.99 per month for unlimited streaming. Current subscribers will not be affected by this price increase. The company has been testing a price increase in Ireland and said it had experienced “limited impact” from the January increase from €6.99 to €7.99. 

Netflix last tried to introduce a price hike in 2011 in an attempt to separate its DVD-renting customers from digital only subscribers. But the plan proved a disaster and Netflix’s customers quit the service in droves. This quarter, the company announced a net profit of $53 million or $0.86 per share, for the quarter, beating analysts' estimates of 83 cents. Revenue jumped 24% to $1.27. Internationally membership grew by 1.75 million, bringing the total to 12.7 million. International revenues now account for 25% of Netflix’s total streaming revenue and the company said it expected international revenues to eventually surpass those in the US.

- House of Cards drama had attracted a “huge audience that would make any cable or broadcast network happy.” 

- Netflix’s US streaming service added 2.25 million members to reach a total of 35.7 million.

- Internationally membership grew by 1.75 million.

- US Netflix subscriptions currently cost $7.99 per month for unlimited streaming. 

- Netflix said revenues had passed $1 billion and its subscriber base had grown to 48 million members worldwide.

I think Netflix is a huge provider for many demographic audiences, it allows audiences to watch movies and programmes at any time. The provider also allows a thirty day free trail for audiences to experience the site therefore they could be subscribers in the future. I think raising up the revenues will not impact a large audience as the provider is very popular and targeted at many demographics such as nuclear families and young audiences. Furthermore as to new and digital media, the provider is available more on new devices attracting a larger audience to subscribe.

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BBC to extend time programmes are available on iPlayer. Video-on-demand service will host shows for 30 days, up from current seven, but ends 'series stacking' option...

The BBC has announced changes to iPlayer which mean programmes will be available for viewing for 30 days, up from the current seven

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/apr/04/bbc-extend-time-programmes-iplayer-series-stacking

BBC shows including Sherlock, Doctor Who and Top Gear will soon be available to watch for up to 30 days after first transmission on online video service iPlayer, giving viewers an extra three weeks to catch up with their favourite shows. The BBC will extend the amount of time its programmes are available on its iPlayer video-on-demand service from seven to 30 days after the proposals were approved by the BBC Trust, effectively quadrupling the amount of content on offer. iPlayer, which had a record 3 billion requests for TV and radio programmes last year, with a top 20 dominated by BBC2's Top Gear, will make the change to its catch-up window in the summer. However, a further change will mean some programmes are actually available for less time, with an end to the "series stacking" option that enable viewers to download all episodes of a series retrospectively.While the amount of TV programmes available on the iPlayer will  increase fourfold, the total amount of radio content will increase around two and a half times. 

Diane Coyle, vice chairman of the BBC Trust, said: "With an average of 10.7 million programme requests every day, BBC iPlayer is highly valued by audiences and has been a phenomenal success since it launched six years ago. "It is important that iPlayer continues to evolve and meet the expectations of users. We have conducted a thorough assessment of these proposals, including taking independent advice from Ofcom, and concluded that this is a sensible move that will benefit audiences and provide a clearer and more consistent catch-up service." 

In a statement, the BBC said: "People keep telling us they want programmes to be available on BBC iPlayer for longer – so extending availability from seven to 30 days will make iPlayer even better. "New iPlayer already has downloads, better recommendations, HD, live restart, favourites and collections, and extending the catch-up window to 30 days gives people even longer to enjoy their favourite BBC programmes. We will now set about making this happen with the aim to roll this out from the summer."

- Giving viewers an extra three weeks to catch up with their favourite shows.

- Some programmes are actually available for less time.

- Amount of radio content will increase around two and a half times. 

- "People keep telling us they want programmes to be available on BBC iPlayer for longer – so extending availability from seven to 30 days will make iPlayer even better. 

I personally think BBC iPlayer is trying to satisfy the audiences needs as they have previously requested to allow programmes to be shown on iPlayer longer. Therefore increasing the days of the programme allow the audience to watch their favourite programmes whenever they are available.

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Peaches Geldof – was the coverage by newspapers, and TV, over the top? The majority of national newspapers in the UK carried news of the death of Bob Geldof's daughter on their front pages...

The Guardian was one of several national newspapers that featured the death of Peaches Geldof on its front page. Photograph: Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/apr/08/peaches-geldof-national-newspapers

The sudden death of a young woman, especially the daughter of a man as famous as Bob Geldof and with a history of family tragedy, was bound to be a headline event. When news broke that Peaches Geldof had died, aged 25, the Sky News presenter momentarily floundered. Similarly, the BBC's news channel had some unusually nervous moments. What followed was a couple of hours of vacuous, and sometimes embarrassing, interviews with "commentators" who endlessly repeated that it was a tragedy, that it echoed the early death of her mother, Paula Yates, and that Peaches had led an unconventional life. Twitter was scanned for quotable quotes. She was variously described as a journalist, TV presenter, DJ, model, "fashion icon", mother of two, twice-married. There were also vague references to her being "too thin". 

The story led the main evening news programmes, pushing down the order developments in Ukraine, the Maria Miller controversy and the Oscar Pistorius trial. It also garnered much more coverage than the death of 93-year-old "legendary" film star Mickey Rooney. Meanwhile, newspapers were able to prepare their news reports, analyses, picture research and tributes without the difficulty of sitting in front of a camera. Most editors decided that the TV news shows were right to give the Peaches Geldof story top billing. Some devoted their entire front page to it, such as the Daily Mail, The Sun, Daily Mirror, Daily Star and Metro. In so doing, they overturned their previous plans to give pictorial pride of place to the Duchess of Cambridge and her son in Australia. Almost every other paper (with the notable exceptions of The Independent and the Financial Times) carried front page pictures and articles about Peaches. Every editor, I noted, avoided the temptation to speculate on the cause of her death, respectfully repeating the statement issued by the police. 

Most of the articles nosed off on Bob Geldof's statement, and the headline writers (at the Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian and Daily Mail) also relied on his words: "We are beyond pain." I thought Metro's front page bordered on tastelessness. It used the picture Peaches had posted on Twitter of herself, as a baby, in her mother's arms with the headline, "Together again." The Sun did roughly the same inside, using the same picture and the headline, "With mum." The Sun, with seven pages, devoted most space to the story. But its main articles were readable and, in the circumstances, reasonable pieces of work. It stuck, in the main, to facts. Elsewhere, there were instances of speculation about her state of mind, such as the Mail's piece, ""She never got over losing Paula at 11", but it was a sensible assessment of what Peaches had said and written about the subject. 

I think the news headlines did over react to the death of Geldof's daughter Peaches who was only 24 years old. As most of the news sources covered her story, it seemed a bit to much as many people die unexpectedly also celebrities. The impact of her being a celebrity could be the reason to the high coverage of her death therefore resulting in every news provider. Most of the newspapers have used the iconic image of her mother Paula Yates who died in 2000 for overdosing heroine and herself as a baby with head title saying 'With mother' or 'Mum'.

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Daily Mail picture manipulation was an 'editorial mistake'...

Daily Mail, the Guardian and Daily Mirror sports sections showing different versions of the same picture. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/apr/09/dailymail-news-photography

The Daily Mail has conceded that the picture manipulation reported yesterday was "an editorial mistake", according to Press Gazette. The image showed Tottenham footballer Emmanuel Adebayor saluting manager Tim Sherwood after he had scored a goal during Tottenham's 5-1 defeat of Sunderland. But the Mail - unlike The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph - deleted the man standing next to Sherwood, a member of Spurs' coaching squad, Chris Ramsey. A spokesman for the Daily Mail quoted by Press Gazette said it was not the paper's policy to manipulate news images and that it had been a "mistake". An internal investigation is underway. The original picture was taken by Kirsty Wigglesworth and distributed to newspapers by Associated Press, which prohibits digital manipulation of its photographs.

- The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph - deleted the man standing next to Sherwood.

- A spokesman for the Daily Mail quoted by Press Gazette said it was not the paper's policy to manipulate news images and that it had been a "mistake".

- The original picture was taken by Kirsty Wigglesworth.

I personally think the newspapers sometimes exaggerate to attract a audience. However this shows how the audiences are engaged to the news and believe whatever they hear as its a reliable source however due to citizen journalists there are also other news providers which are more reliable as there is footage provided from a live stream (Marxists theory and User generated content).

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Google looking to turn Chromecast into an at-a-glance TV dashboard. Streaming stick could turn TV into an info centre showing weather and news when not streaming content...

Google could turn the Chromecast into an instant info screen for dormant TVs.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/09/google-chromecast-tv-dashboard-streaming

Google is looking at enhancing its Chromecast streaming stick with an information dashboard for the weather, local news and personal photos. Examination of the code of a recent update to Google’s Chromecast by asjmcguire on Reddit has revealed dormant components geared up for pulling data about the local weather from the internet and displaying it in simple icon form, as well as other at-a-glance information. The current Chromecast screen, which is displayed when not streaming media or using other apps via a smartphone or computer, shows a rotating selection of images predefined by Google as well as a clock.

Slideshows, weather and news?

- Other snippets of dormant code in the Chromecast software hints that Google will allow users to display their own photos from their online libraries instead of the Google preselected photos.

- The update also brought the ability to stream YouTube live broadcasts via the Chromecast, as well as improvements to Netflix streaming.

- Chromecast could see Google leverage its services such a Google News, Google Now and Calendar on a larger screen.

- Chromecast app developers have already started experimenting successfully with dashboard-like information screens, replacing the simplistic default Chromecast screen showing news tickers, weather and other information.

- “We’re always experimenting with new features, but have nothing new to announce,” said a Google spokesperson in response.

I think this would be a great idea of improving the technology of the new device to a more advanced media product as new and digital products are challenged by many companies therefore Google improving this device would attract a larger audiences also by different demographics. The news provides our audiences an update of what is happening around our society therefore the audiences would want to know what the news is about. It allows audiences to interact as they would be able to upload personal images without using a smartphone or tablet.