Notes from media magazine conference

MEDIA CONFERENCE NOTES

Bill Thomson:

What had the Internet done for me?

-          Open to innovation 

Network is becoming seem less and very fast

-          Accessible

Delivers freedom and speech

Ways to use the net:

-          Connection

-          Information

-          Voices in your need

-          Political action

-          Financial reward

-          Games

-          Learning

-          Friendship 

Downsides:

-          Bullying 

-          Porn

-          Extremism

-          Content collapse 

-          Fraud

-          Scams

-          Sexual abuse

Media and democracy:

Diversity and plurality

Last few decades:

-          Rolling news 

-          Free newspapers 

-          Mobile apps

-          Online news

Chasing audience members

Cut and paste journalism 

Cut and pasted from daily mail

Internet gives power to audiences 

Hack gate

-          Corruption of power

-          Digital information is hard to contract

-          Online code is law

-          Codes and other laws of cyber space

-          It's complicated

-          Privacy 

The dark net launch of online resources to be accessed

Media publicity protests power 

Phone hacking 

2011 Rupert Murdoch closed newspapers 

Nick Davis not about journalist is about power

Power over:

-          Media content

-          Audiences

-          Journalists

-          Governments

Power to:

-          Censor

-          Mislead

-          Set the agenda

Stuart Hall

Role of media in circulation common sense definitions of majority and minority groups of deviance and normality