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Question 13 - Presentation feedback

1) Social Media (Twitter) - 

• Most developed field.
• Gained 500 million users. 

Arab Spring.

People Rely on Twitter- Produces News and it's faster in terms of receiving news. 

Challenges traditional news sources.

"Hashtag" - become more relevant in everyday life. 

Discover Page shows BBC News and Sky News - No longer needing traditional news sites. 

Undeveloped countries were able to grow and develop because people had a say in what was happening through the use of twitter.

2) Facebook and Democracy - 

Interact with others, demographic is 25 - 34.

"Facebook was not originally created to be a company. I was built to accomplish a social mission." - Mark Zuckerberg.

"The internet is an empowering tool" - Al Gore.

-First protest - Tunisia. 

-Ben Ali was a dictator.

Cina censors foreign websites.

"The global village" - Mc Cuhan.

"Facebook could be tracking users without their knowledge or permission, with could be an unfair or deceptive business practise" - Ed Murkey.

3) Music Industry -

Spotify - 

• "Commecial music streaming service". 
• Access to 20 million songs. 
• No need to download.

Itunes -

• Apple, 2001.
• Media player & media library.
• Don't need to be professional to make music. 

Piracy -

• Illegally downloading music. 
• Hader to produce music. 
• No steady income. 

Music companies aren't making much money anymore - loosing revenue because people don't buy CD's anymore.

-Decrease in CD sales - Dropped 11.7% (Album sales have dropped.)

People use soundcloud and live streaming.

"Audiences are now the new gatekeepers."

-Justin Bieber became successful by the audience watching his videos on youtube.

-Sean Kingston - Famous through myspace 

-Soulja Boy and Conner Maynard both became famous through the audiences on youtube.

Don't need to rely on big companies to make them famous.

PIRACY - Get music for free on spotify and deezer.

Blaming google because they don't protect music sites and block illegally downloading sites.

DIGITAL ECONOMY ACT (DEA)

-Use illegal downloading sites more than 3 times and houses internet would get blocked - No internet.

4) Film Industry (Netflix)

• Netflix is a successful provider of on-demand films.
• Netfilx supplies a wide range of films, being able to watch televisions in the comfort of your own home. 
• Used to be £6.50 per month but have increased to £7.50.

Blockbuster Videos - The internet killed the video stores because content is available online for free. 

-Pluralist believe they have more power on the film industry

-Marxist believe they control the audience and even through people watch films whenever and wherever  they are still controlled by the content

Kills the idea of scheduling because of time-shifting and on-demand.

5) Smarthphones

SAMSUNG 3III VS. IPHONES.

Both very effective popular devices. 

• Business people used to use smart-phones more but it's now the younger generation. 
• Smathphones have become more productive in everyday use - Easier and quicker.
• Create moral panic because people have a stronger control of their content.
• Whatsapp allows people to communicate all around the world.
• Becoming our own producers of news.
• Using the camera to document everything that you do

The internet and new and digital media is very disruptive - destroying the traditional ways of consuming media.

6) Sky

-Rupet Murdoch owns everything.

Sky + was made in 2002.

Sky Go and Sky + -time shifting

TV isn't going to die because they keep improving it.

•  Sky Go.
• On demand & Catch up TV.
• 3D Television.

"See it First"

-Shows a film on Sky Go before showing it on Sky Movies on the normal channels.

7) Instagram 

Launched in 2010, popular in 2012.

Shares the idea of the Hashtags like Twitter.

2012 - Facebook took over instagram to make it popular & better to use.

Mark Zucheburg wanted Instagram because he knew it was on the rise and facebook was dying.

Facebook's unique selling point is sharing photos - Instagram is the new way of sharing photos.