Today I made several notes on Natalie's work. I used the exam criteria and went over her article. After the editing work I did with Tim's article I could also incorporated a few of the skills I got from that, to try and improve the writing of her article. I fixed a few spelling mistakes and made sure to consult the criteria to try and make her work more related to the exam topics.
In class, we also made several notes on the different media topics visited in the exam. I made the most notes for the questions 'How effectively can contemporary media be regulated?' and 'To what extent are the media now more global than local or national?'. These are from the topics of Contemporary Media Regulation and Global Media.
How effectively can contemporary media be regulated?
- Certain websites can be regulated, however when looking at the internet holistically it follows the guideline 'anything goes'. Even illegal material finds ways to be shown vie certain sites on the internet.
- Certain media is still controlled and regulated by big corporations such as television and radio, although smaller and smaller companies are now hosting their own channels.
- Governments still have overall control, such as in Iran, Twitter was blocked. However web 2.0 contains far too many websites to be able to block them all.
To what extent are the media now more global than local or national?
- The internet is a huge part of everyday life and is available to every single country.
- Channels only used to be available like the BBC (which is local), now satellite TV has allowed for international viewing.
- Facebook is the biggest social networking site across England, Europe and America.
- A lot of websites contain translation programs that enable its use by many countries.
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