New/digital media - bonus revision materials

Mr Bush has already put a huge amount of brilliant revision material on this blog for your upcoming MEST3 exam. Here's some bonus material from YouTube and Media Magazine...

How Social Media Can Make History - Clay Shirky TED talk



Dan Gillmor: The Future of Journalism




Mass Amateurisation

This Wikipedia entry on Mass Amateurisation (another term for discussing how digital media has empowered audiences) is a great revision tool.


Media Magazine

Thanks to you cataloguing our back issues of Media Magazine, we have a great list of potential articles that will give you the variety of perspectives that A grade students offer. Our Media Magazine archive is here - look at the below and read anything and everything you can...

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Have Your Say: How is Internet Commenting Changing the News Media?

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Pain, Privacy and the Press Pack: the Ethics of News Media Culture

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Comments Please: Who comments on news sites, why, and in whose interests?

Tweeting Together: Nick Lacey evaluates the role of social networks in activism and protest against the status quo.

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Participation Debates: The Media And Democracy

Social Networking and Citizen Journalism: Participating in The Arab Spring

Hashtag TV: Twitter and television

Reporting From The Graveyard Shift: BBC News and the death of Osama Bin Laden

Web 2.0: Participation or Hegemony

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Got Issues with That? How do some events, ideas or behaviours come to be regarded as social issues, or indeed as social problems?

Kony 2012 – Power, Politics and the #Generation

Black Mirror – The Reflection in the Screen Charlie Brooker’s larger-than life satire dramatises some of the recurrent debates about 21st-century media culture in an online age: celebrity, surveillance, privacy, regulation and the dangers and democratic potential of technology.

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The Rise and Rise of the Independent Journalist

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Representations of War in TV News: a Representational Case Study

Additional perspectives on the impact of new/digital media

Thanks to Rohail for sending me a link to some great video content that highlights the impact new/digital media can have. This is a selection:

AJ+ YouTube channel
AJ+ describes itself as "a global news community for the connected generation. We highlight human struggles and achievements, empower impassioned voices, and challenge the status quo. AJ+ doesn't just tell you the news, we want to hear from you!"








Good luck with your revision - remember, be knowledgeable, be original and show the examiner you are truly a student of the media!