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Google 

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http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/564301/Flying-car-reality-2017-aermobil
Flying car a reality by 2017

57

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/grand-theft-auto-tv-drama-by-bbc-show-will-follow-making-rockstar-video-game-1492419
Grand Theft Auto TV drama by BBC: Show will follow 'the making' of the Rockstar video game

• BBC declared it was making a television drama based on Grand Theft Auto
• The show is more likely to be about the development of the Rockstar game (more like a documentary) and its behind the scenes moments.
• The man behind the BBC drama has clarified that the series will be on the making of the hottest game of the year.
• Engadget reports that the show will be a "one-off, feature-length drama running 90 minutes"
• Two-part show on GTA is rumoured to be aired in September this year on BBC 2.

BBC 2s show will not be some fictional drama speaking about Lester and his gang of miscreants. Instead BBC has explained that the drama will most likely be a behind-the-scenes look at the development of the GTA. 

The Grand Theft Auto series will be transitioning to BBC 2 for a two part episode explaining the development behind making the game and the background on the criminals lifestyles within the game. Based off the latest release of GTA V that was released in three waves. September 2012 released for PS3 and Xbox 360. September 2013 re release for the definitive version on PS4 and  Xbox One. and the final release of the game on the PC platform has been confirmed for a Spring 2015 window. 

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http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/20/google-anti-competitive-ftc-report
FTC report recommended suing Google for anti-competitive practices

• Google for violating antitrust rules before the agency settled its investigation in 2013
• The FTC settled its multi-year investigation of Google in 2013
• Google had manipulated its search results to hurt rivals.
• Speculation about potential consumer and competitor harm turned out to be entirely wrong
• 19-month review, covering 9 million pages of documents and many hours of testimony, the FTC staff and all five commissioner agreed that there was no need to take action

Key staff members at the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) were in favour of suing Google for violating antitrust rules before the agency settled its investigation in 2013, according to a confidential report cited by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

The report by the staff of the FTC’s competition bureau argued that the owner of the world’s biggest search engine illegally took information from rival websites to improve its own results and placed restrictions on websites and advertisers. The report recommended suing Google for several of its business practices. The FTC settled its multi-year investigation of Google in 2013, concluding that the company had not manipulated its search results to hurt rivals.

55

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/20/google-illegally-took-content-from-amazon-yelp-tripadvisor-ftc-report
Google 'illegally took content from Amazon, Yelp, Trip Advisor,' report finds

• Google search practices investigation creates at least the appearance that politics, and not merits, drove the FTC’s ultimate conclusion.”

• America’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted unanimously to end its investigation into Google in early 2013 after extracting concessions from the Silicon Valley Company.
• The findings, contained in a report produced in 2012 by FTC staff to advise commissioners before their final decision on the case, claim Google also caused “harm to many vertical competitors”.
• Inits 2013 settlement, the FTC ruled against Google on scraping. Rivals can now opt out of having their content lifted, without fear of being demoted in the search rankings.

Google manipulated its search results to promote its own services over those of rival websites in ways that led to “real harm to consumers”, a previously unpublished report by American regulators has concluded. But documents accidentally handed to the Wall Street Journal show the FTC’s own investigators claim Google’s “conduct has resulted – and will result – in real harm to consumers and to innovation in the on-line search and advertising markets”.

In my opinion I think that Google being a massive cooperate business shouldn't have taken data and used it in this way to make their business more profitable. Manipulating the search criteria is not ethical and people may question Google as a business of being bias at presenting search results. 

54

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/05/gaming-streamer-gets-swatted-as-online-griefing-enters-real-world
Gamer raided by Swat team in front of 60,000 viewers

Joshua Peters, was targeted by anonymous attackers in the middle of a Twitch stream of the browser game Runescape. The veteran was confronted by 10 armed SWAT team members where they had arrived at the veteran’s house and was in shock.

Facts/Phrases:

• Before ending the show, the streamer turned back to the audience, and addressed his attacker. “I see you posting my address. I had police point a gun at my little brothers because of you. They could have been shot, they could have died. Because you chose to swat my stream. I don’t give a shit about what you have against me, or what I did to you. For that I am at a loss for words. Your gripe is with me. But do not involve my family in this. They don’t deserve it.”

In my opinion,this has been caused due to the advancement of new and digital media. This is because the rise has introduced newer cyber crimes, like taking peoples networks or channels down for publicity.

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http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/27/google-backtracks-on-porn-ban-in-blogger
Google backtracks on porn ban in Blogger

• Google has backtracked on plans to ban sexually explicit images from its blogging platform Blogger, in the face of widespread opposition from users

The company had initially announced a ban on “sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video”, with just a few exceptions for content which offered “a substantial public benefit, for example in artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts”.

• Jessica Pelegio, a social product support manager at Google, wrote: “We’ve had a ton of feedback, in particular about the introduction of a retroactive change (some people have had accounts for 10+ years), but also about the negative impact on individuals who post sexually explicit content to express their identities.
• “Blog owners should continue to mark any blogs containing sexually explicit content as ‘adult’ so that they can be placed behind an ‘adult content’ warning page,”
• Since at least 2012 The company has warned users to “not use Blogger as a way to make money on adult content”, and says it does not allow “illegal sexual content, including image, video or textual content that depicts or encourages rape, incest, bestiality, or necrophilia.”

That ban, which has been in place since November 2014, was matched by social news site Reddit this week. The company’s chief executive, Ellen Pao, said that “effective 10 March, Reddit will prohibit any photograph, video or digital image of a person who is nude or engaged in a sexual act if the subject has not given permission for it to be used”.

I think that the internet is changing everyday and evolving therefore the rules and regulations businesses have for their consumers will forever be changing. More companies are becoming more lenient on pornography laws whereas some are become more harsh 

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http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/16/yahoo-passwords-sxsw-encryption-tools-google
Tired of forgetting your password? You don't need one any more, says Yahoo

• Two step verification works by a user logging in with their usual fixed password
• Sends code to mobile phone which is entered on computer
• The “on-demand” password service is opt-in and currently only available in the US.

Yahoo have introduced a new method of entering credentials onto their website. Eliminating the need of memorising passwords and and improving security. 

Yahoo Mail now offers a service similar to “two-step verification”, a security measure employed by other email providers, but the difference is the removal of the first step.

Taking away passwords will have a huge spike in phone hackings and privacy issues may arise.

Steps:

1) Sign in to your Yahoo.com account.

2) Click on your name at the top right corner to go to your account information page.

3) Select “Security” in the left bar.

4) Click on the slider for “On-demand passwords” to opt-in.

5) Enter your phone number and Yahoo will send you a verification code.

6) Enter the code and voila!

Index

• Reading the Riots
• Post-colonialism: theory and clip task
• Post-colonialism: Destiny Ekaragwa film analysis
• Feminism: post-feminism article and No More Page 3 research
• Feminism: waves and feminism and online activism
• Collective identity and the media

Snapchat

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/12/snapchat-worth-15bn-after-alibaba-invesment
Snapchat 'worth $15bn' after Alibaba invesment

• Alibaba is investing $200m in Snapchat
• Snapchat value $15bn
• Snapchat was first released in 2011
• Share price stands at $81.99
• Snapchat, which allows its 100m users to send messages that disappear in seconds, had sought capital to extend its core service

Alibaba is investing $200m in Snap Chat, boosting its current valuation of $5 to $15. The funding from the Chinese ecommerce company, first reported by Bloomberg, means that Snapchat’s worth has increased by $5bn in a matter of months. It dwarfs the $3bn offered by Facebook for the company in late 2013.

I think that snap chat as an organisation will not do well in a few years, people are starting to drift away from using snap chat and is a dying social networking platform. Snapchat have no way of income as the services they provide are free and ad less, therefore the company is only supported from funds from the bank. Future development can show that the business can be profitable when a subscription model or adverts start to appear. 

Index

1. 12/09/2014 - iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus have had record breaking sale figures
2. 13/09/2014 - ISIS release video showing execution of British hostage
3. 15/09/2014 - Minecraft sold: Microsoft buys Mojang for $2.5bn
4. 17/09/2014 - Sony Turnaround Effort Falters, Expects $2.15 Billion Yearly Loss
5. 18/09/2014 - iOS 8 causes bandwidth spikes nationwide, despite slow uptake
6. 21/09/2014 - Labour minimum wage promise would see £8 per hour rate by 2020
7. 22/09/2014 - Traffic halted on M25 as 13 'illegal immigrants' flee lorry
8. 22/09/2014 - Microsoft delays Chinese launch on Xbox one consoles
9. 28/09/2014 - Sam Pepper accused of sexual assault
10. 29/09/2014 - Islamic State crisis: Iraq air strikes 'halt IS advance'
11. 03/10/2014 - Celebrity victims of naked photo hack join together to sue Google $100M
12. 06/10/2014 - Microsoft gets $1bn in Android royalties from Samsung

13. 06/10/2014 - Revenge pornography
14. 13/10/2014 - Apple's iPhone-based 'Pay' launches this week
15. 02/01/2012 - Snapchat Hack
16. 16/10/2014 - Netflix price increases hurt subscriber growth
17. 20/10/2014 - Google Search Engine
18. 20/10/2014 - Social Networking sites automatically' hand over Isis terrorists' data
19. 24/10/2014 - Facebook will now let you post anonymously
20. 03/11/2014 - Facebook sets up 'dark web' link to access network via Tor
21. 10/11/2014 - ITV under pressure to axe Dapper Laughs show over misogyny claims
22. 14/11/2014 - Twitter's debt assigned 'junk' status
23. 14/11/2014 - Phone and web data plan under fire for interfering with privacy
24. 17/11/2014 - Google Project Loon
25. 17/11/2014 - YouTube's Subscription Music Service
26. 21/11/2014 - Now e-cigarettes can give you malware
27. 08/12/2014 - UK set to be first country in which more than half of ad spend goes digital
28. 08/12/2014 - French journalism school executive accused of plagiarism
29. 08/12/2014 - YouTubers ads for Oreo banned for not making clear purpose of videos
30. 05/01/2014 - North Korea responds with fury to US sanctions over Sony hack
31. 25/12/2014 - Lizard Squad DDOS Sony Microsoft
32. 05/01/2014 - Apple faces lawsuit over storage space on iPhones and iPads
33. 05/01/2014 - Study claims more than 80% of 'dark net' traffic is to child abuse sites
34. 05/01/2014 - Driverless cars to be tested in UK
35. 05/01/2015 - Microsoft Nokia 215
36. 05/01/2015 - Mark Zuckerberg starts online book club, sells out Amazon
37. 05/01/2015 - Streaming: the future of the music industry, or its nightmare?
38. 05/01/2015 - Superman ‘ecstasy’ pill deaths are result of ‘illogical and punitive drugs policy’

39. 09/02/2015 - Windows 10: Ambitious But Realistic
40. 09/02/2015 - How social networking is changing journalism
41. 09/02/2015 - Spain moves to protect domestic media with new 'Google tax'
42. 09/02/2015 - Does the Sun really speak to more people than Russell Brand?
43. 09/02/2015 - Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook censorship despite Charlie Hebdo support
44. 09/02/2015 - YouTubers ads for Oreo banned for not making clear purpose of videos
45. 09/02/2015 - BuzzFeed launches its own 'public chat' channel in messaging app Viber
46. 09/02/2015 - Who, What, Why: How does Google's Autocomplete censor predictions?
47. 09/02/2015 - Revenge porn victims’ helpline launched in UK

48. 09/02/2015 - Google Maps: a decade of transforming the mapping landscape

49. 09/02/2015 - Snapchat
50. 09/02/2015 - French law blocking terrorist and child abuse sites comes into effect
51. 13/03/2015 - 

collective identity

1) Who are you?
This is about creating an identity for yourself and how our ideas on self image are. There is a certain way we are and a difference of how we want to be seen. The way the media informs us about fashion etc. has an influence on how we use it.
Rise of the individual

2) Media saturation is constant media surrounding everybody, whether it be TV or online. I agree we do live in a media saturated world but this may not be a bad thing as media is needed in the world as a way of communication and innovation of technology and future developments.
We as individuals are in control of our public image when it comes to the internet and such.
Data mining is a good idea as it provides consumers with the benefit of being introduced to products they may be interested in.

3)

The movement is a Twitter trend called #TwitterSilence, and it involves an ironic day of quiet in protest of women's inability to speak out on Twitter without incurring some form of abuse.

Chad Evans

• On 20 April 2012 Chedwyn Evans, a 23 year old professional footballer, was convicted of rape at Caernarfon Crown Court
• On Friday 17th October 2014 at 5am he was released from custody and will continue the fight to clear his name
• Complainant who was alleged to have been raped in this case stated when interviewed by the police and subsequently maintained in Court that she could not remember anything at all, other than a very brief period in a take-away

Ched Evans, the footballer convicted of rape, has faced criticism from fans and women's groups alike over his potential return to the sport

Stopped league one offering him a long term deal ruined his football career.

21,000 people backed the petition in less than 24 hours, 

160,000 signatures in September.

Among the fastest-growing online petitions ever - has changed the minds of football mangers

Twitter, where she has around 2,000 followers

"We do believe he has the right to work. We believe that it does not have to be in a role where he influences views about sexual violence, and his presence on your pitch will do this."

Women are being harsh on Chad Evans even though he has done something wrong, many children look up to him as a role model. Everybody makes mistakes and being drunk and committing these crimes are different to being sober. Maybe the petition should be about illegalising alcohol rather than stopping him from having a successful career. The substance caused him to make these actions and he should be accounted for them.

What if the woman alleged of being raped isn't telling the truth about the night and is lying about not knowing. 

51

NDM 50

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/09/french-law-blocking-terrorist-and-child-abuse-sites-comes-into-effect
French law blocking terrorist and child abuse sites comes into effect

• Costs incurred by the ISPs 
• Sites that are blocked will redirect to a page from the interior ministry describing why the action was taken
• French internet service providers to block sites within 24 hours
• France has introduced a new law that allows government agencies to order the blocking of websites that advocate acts of terrorism or contain images of child abuse.

The legislation was brought in by revisions to 2011’s Loppsi Act, and an anti-terror bill passed by the French senate in October, but can now be used by the general directorate of the police’s cybercrime unit to force French internet service providers to block sites within 24 hours, without a court order.

Sites that are blocked will redirect to a page from the interior ministry describing why the action was taken. The sites will be checked quarterly to make sure they continue to display the proscribed content and that the block is still appropriate.

Blocking and filtering child abuse will prevent any major cases of paedophilia in the near future. 

Post Feminist

1) Read Playing With The Past: Post-feminism and the Media (MM40, page 64 - our Media Magazine archive is here).

2) What are the two texts the article focuses on?
Male gaze and feminism.

3) What examples are provided from the two texts of the 'male gaze' (Mulvey)?
Beyonce's construction perfectly encapsulates the contradictions of post-feminist culture, simultaneously declaring herself as an independent woman, whilst objectifying herself for the camera and the ‘male gaze'.

4) Do texts such as these show there is no longer a need for feminism or are they simply sexism in a different form?

5) Choose three words/phrases from the glossary of the article and write their definitions on your blog.

Post-feminism – Culture and society that society is somehow past needing feminism and that the attitudes and arguments of feminism are no longer needed.

Male Gaze – The gaze referring to Laura Mulvey’s seminal article ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ which argues that main stream Hollywood films subject female characters to the ‘male gaze’ of the camera, fragmenting and objectifying their bodies.

Nostalgia – A sentimental longing for the past, often only remembering the positives of the time.

No Page 3

1) Research the No More Page 3 campaign. Who started it and why?
Lucy Anne Holmes was the creator of the No Page 3 campaign quoting her "Most prominent photograph of a woman in the widest circulation British newspaper is of a young woman in just her pants" Her motive was to stop the campaign because she thinks its outdated. The sun first introduced it in the 1970s were the society they lived in was very sexist. Soft porn being sold to consumer via the most selling newspaper that children are exposed to.

2) What are the six reasons the campaign gives for why Page 3 has to go?
1) Outdated
2) Soft Porn
3) Not educational
4. Women disagree
5. Male dominant gender
6. Expansion for The Sun talk about rape and sexual offences etc..

3) Read this debate in the Guardian regarding whether the campaign should be dropped. What are Barbara Ellen and Susan Boniface's contrasting opinions in the debate?


4) How can the No More Page 3 campaign be linked to the idea of post-feminism?
Page 3 was introduced in a sexist society

5) What are your OWN views on the No More Page 3 campaign. Do you agree with the campaign's aims? Should the campaign continue?
Im for the no page 3 campaign. Campaign highlights that the Sun is being sexist against women, with The Sun announcing they will be removing the feature from their newspaper the never next day they reintroduced it back in. Showing the control The Sun has creating a publicity stunt to makes sense it portrays women as objects and degrades them,

NDM

1. 12/09/2014 - iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus have had record breaking sale figures
2. 13/09/2014 - ISIS release video showing execution of British hostage
3. 15/09/2014 - Minecraft sold: Microsoft buys Mojang for $2.5bn
4. 17/09/2014 - Sony Turnaround Effort Falters, Expects $2.15 Billion Yearly Loss
5. 18/09/2014 - iOS 8 causes bandwidth spikes nationwide, despite slow uptake
6. 21/09/2014 - Labour minimum wage promise would see £8 per hour rate by 2020
7. 22/09/2014 - Traffic halted on M25 as 13 'illegal immigrants' flee lorry
8. 22/09/2014 - Microsoft delays Chinese launch on Xbox one consoles
9. 28/09/2014 - Sam Pepper accused of sexual assault
10. 29/09/2014 - Islamic State crisis: Iraq air strikes 'halt IS advance'
11. 03/10/2014 - Celebrity victims of naked photo hack join together to sue Google $100M
12. 06/10/2014 - Microsoft gets $1bn in Android royalties from Samsung

13. 06/10/2014 - Revenge pornography
14. 13/10/2014 - Apple's iPhone-based 'Pay' launches this week
15. 02/01/2012 - Snapchat Hack
16. 16/10/2014 - Netflix price increases hurt subscriber growth
17. 20/10/2014 - Google Search Engine
18. 20/10/2014 - Social Networking sites automatically' hand over Isis terrorists' data
19. 24/10/2014 - Facebook will now let you post anonymously
20. 03/11/2014 - Facebook sets up 'dark web' link to access network via Tor
21. 10/11/2014 - ITV under pressure to axe Dapper Laughs show over misogyny claims
22. 14/11/2014 - Twitter's debt assigned 'junk' status
23. 14/11/2014 - Phone and web data plan under fire for interfering with privacy
24. 17/11/2014 - Google Project Loon
25. 17/11/2014 - YouTube's Subscription Music Service
26. 21/11/2014 - Now e-cigarettes can give you malware
27. 08/12/2014 - UK set to be first country in which more than half of ad spend goes digital
28. 08/12/2014 - French journalism school executive accused of plagiarism
29. 08/12/2014 - YouTubers ads for Oreo banned for not making clear purpose of videos
30. 05/01/2014 - North Korea responds with fury to US sanctions over Sony hack
31. 25/12/2014 - Lizard Squad DDOS Sony Microsoft
32. 05/01/2014 - Apple faces lawsuit over storage space on iPhones and iPads
33. 05/01/2014 - Study claims more than 80% of 'dark net' traffic is to child abuse sites
34. 05/01/2014 - Driverless cars to be tested in UK
35. 05/01/2015 - Microsoft Nokia 215
36. 05/01/2015 - Mark Zuckerberg starts online book club, sells out Amazon
37. 05/01/2015 - Streaming: the future of the music industry, or its nightmare?
38. 05/01/2015 - Superman ‘ecstasy’ pill deaths are result of ‘illogical and punitive drugs policy’

39. 09/02/2015 - Windows 10: Ambitious But Realistic
40. 09/02/2015 - How social networking is changing journalism
41. 09/02/2015 - Spain moves to protect domestic media with new 'Google tax'
42. 09/02/2015 - Does the Sun really speak to more people than Russell Brand?
43. 09/02/2015 - Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook censorship despite Charlie Hebdo support
44. 09/02/2015 - YouTubers ads for Oreo banned for not making clear purpose of videos
45. 09/02/2015 - BuzzFeed launches its own 'public chat' channel in messaging app Viber
46. 09/02/2015 - Who, What, Why: How does Google's Autocomplete censor predictions?
47. 09/02/2015 - Revenge porn victims’ helpline launched in UK

48. 09/02/2015 - Google Maps: a decade of transforming the mapping landscape

49. 09/02/2015 - Snapchat
50. 09/02/2015 - French law blocking terrorist and child abuse sites comes into effect

NDM 49

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-31294752
Snapchat selfie unmasked Pittsburgh killer, police say

• Maxwell Marion Morton, 16
• Auto-deletes content after a few seconds - to send an image to a friend
• 16-year-old Ryan Mangan, was a classmate of Maxwell Marion Morton
• Users are alerted when someone takes a screen capture of a message.

The suspect used Snapchat - an app that auto-deletes content after a few seconds - to send an image to a friend.

The friend took a screenshot and his mother contacted police. Prosecutors said the Snapchat was "key evidence".

"[Police] received a copy of the photo which depicted the victim sitting in the chair with a gunshot wound to the face," a police affidavit states, according to The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

"It also depicts a black male taking the 'selfie,' with his face facing the camera and the victim behind the actor. The photo had the name 'Maxwell' across the top."

NDM 48

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/08/google-maps-10-anniversary-iphone-android-street-view

Google Maps: a decade of transforming the mapping landscape

• World wide web supported the first online maps in 1993
• In 2004, Danish brothers Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen went to Google with an idea for a web app that would not only display static maps
• 50 people set out building Google Maps
• Google Maps launched in the US on 8 February 2005
• 2005 Google launched driving and public transport directions

Google Maps didn’t stand still. Later in 2005 Google launched driving and public transport directions, but it wasn’t until the launch of satellite imagery that Hanke saw how committed Google was to the project.

Googles maps have always been unreliable in my eyes. John Hanke, co-founder of Keyhole and vice president of Google’s geospatial division until 2011 told the Guardian. Google’s co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, he said, thought that geospatial – data and information related to maps and location services - was a key element of Google’s organising the world’s information.

NDM 47

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/08/revenge-porn-victims-helpline-launched
Revenge porn victims’ helpline launched in UK

• Can affect people as young as 11
• A helpline for victims of revenge porn has been launched as part of a concerted push to tackle the growing problem of explicit photographs being shared online without the victim’s consent.
• Hundreds of sites dedicated to non-consensual porn throughout the world
• 30 sites “specialised” in revenge porn content used in the UK alone.
• 43 UK police forces were asked for details of reported incidents of revenge pornography between 1 January 2012 and 1 July 2014

The revenge porn helpline will work with police and websites to try and get non-consensual explicit photos removed and provide victims with help about how to get free legal advice. It will work with other services, such as Women’s Aid, the Stalking Helpline or Relate, so that victims know where they can turn if they need more help.

I think personally revenge porn helplines will recover some of the damage dealt by these videos and images posted online. Something that should have been in place along time ago, many people who have suffered from revenge porn have often lead to suicidal acts. 

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Yasmin

The clip does offers a partly negative representations it shows one of the characters being very uncivilized where he is eating peanut butter directly out of the jar and also his dirty clothing. Similarly the clear disrespect shown by the main character towards her religion can provide a negative representation of Muslims as she takes off her hijab.

In contrast it can be argued that the main character provides us with a very identifiable character as she tries to break free from her religious barriers and be a part of western society.

Fanon

Bend it like beckham

East is East

24

Alvardo

Anuvahood

Mandem on the wall

NDM 46

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31131920
Who, What, Why: How does Google's Autocomplete censor predictions?

•  Recruited more than 1,000 people from the UK to fight for it.
• But Google, alerted to the Autocomplete options by the BBC, had by 1030 GMT removed "isis" as one of the suggestions
• The fourth suggestion was "isis".

Predictions are based upon various factors, these include location, general search preferences) e (popluar searches). Isis is known as a highly effective user of social media, including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, with which it spreads its messages and disseminates pictures  videos, encouraging its followers to do the same. 

I think that the removal of this autocomplete prediction is a good move by Google but should have censored it in good time so the people wanting to join ISIS would be much lower. Google have influenced and partial to blame for the ISIS attacks due to the promotion of how to join the Islamic group. Think they should take this as a warning to block any other related searches like terror attacks like YouTube have done. 

1) Read the excellent article exploring the different representations of black people in British film and TV from Media Magazine 42 (MM42 from our Media Magazine archive - page 51)

2) List FIVE films, FIVE TV programmes and FIVE online-only productions that are discussed in the article.
Films:

• Bullet Boy
• AnuvaHood
• Shank
• Sket
• Ill Manors
• Slumdog millionaire

TV:

• 55 degrees north
• Luther
• Line of duty
• The Kumars at 42
• Goodness gracious me
• Citizen Khan

Online Only:

• Brother with no game
• Venus vs Mars
• The Ryan sisters
• All about the McKenzies
• Meet the adebanjos
• The crouches

3) Watch Destiny Ekaragha's clips above (more of her work is available on her website, including the short film The Park). To what extent can we apply Alvarado's and Fanon's theories to these films? Do they reinforce or subvert typical black stereotypes in British film and TV? Refer to specific scenes and events in the clips in answering this question and aim for at least 350 words.

Black people are stereotyped in some sense to be dangerous in the film The Park, when 2 white men walked past the group of blacks on the wall they came across to be very negative and threatening commenting on the way he looks. May not be directly dangerous but has an obvious representation that theyre can be violent if they wanted to.

Also theyre seemed to be

NDM 45

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/16/buzzfeed-public-chat-messaging-app-viber

BuzzFeed launches its own 'public chat' channel in messaging app Viber

• Online news site BuzzFeed’s initial growth may have been fuelled by social networks Facebook and Twitter
• BuzzFeed has launched a “public chat” channel within the app

• WeChat and Viber may soon be joined by another high-profile messaging app as a partner for BuzzFeed.

Online news site BuzzFeed’s initial growth may have been fuelled by social networks Facebook and Twitter, but its next frontier is likely to be messaging apps like its latest partner, Viber. BuzzFeed has launched a “public chat” channel within the app, which is owned by Japanese internet giant Rakuten, and which has more than 209 million monthly active users. WeChat and Viber may soon be joined by another high-profile messaging app as a partner for BuzzFeed. In November, it was named as one of the media companies in talks with photo and video messaging app Snapchat about serving stories to a new section of its app called Discover.

NDM 43

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/15/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-charlie-hebdo
Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook censorship despite Charlie Hebdo support

• Paris attack was to support freedom of expression but sees ‘tricky calculus’ in countries where that’s restricted
• It wasn’t just a terrorist attack about just trying to do some damage and make people afraid and hurt people. 
• This was specifically about people’s freedom of expression and ability to say what they want,” said Zuckerberg.

In this article it outlines that mark zuckerburg has recently commended the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris due to freedom of speech issues yet his won website actively censors content to its liking. The promise of new and digital media being an egalitarian and unbiased platform is being diminished by many large incumbent firms such as Facebook that were present at its dawn and are slowly but surely becoming big powers in influencing the content and opinion online as highlighted by the above article.

This article expresses clear marxism and porteo’s law in action as the firms move from the 80% to the 20% and start to impose and enforce what they believe is right and true and do not allow the people to create their own opinion as they recognise they have a large influence in constructing other opinions.

NDM 42

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/dec/05/the-sun-speak-more-people-russell-brand

Does the Sun really speak to more people than Russell Brand?

• The Sun sells 1.9m newspapers a day, according to the latest ABC figures from November.
• This is considerably more than the 48,000 copies Brand’s latest book, Revolution, had sold up to 22 November, according to Nielsen.
• He has 8.6 million Twitter followers
• 1.2 million more Facebook followers.

The Sun has stepped up its attacks on Russell Brand in recent days but in many ways the comedian is now much more influential than the paper. The Sun newspaper has run two front pages this week attacking comedian and political activist Russell Brand, but is it really controlling the public debate any more?
 

I think this paper’s reach on the majority of the world’s favourite social media sites. He has 8.6 million Twitter followers, which is 13 times more than the Sun. He also has 1.2 million more Facebook followers.

NDM 41

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/31/spain-newspaper-google-tax
Spain moves to protect domestic media with new 'Google tax'

• Failure to pay up can lead to a fine of up to €600,000.
• The “Google tax” isn’t the only component of Spain’s law
• That requirement doesn’t require copyright holders to go through a judge before demanding links be removed

Spain moves to protect domestic media with new 'Google tax':content aggregates such as Google News, in an effort to protect its print media industry." The "Google Tax" means that whenever an online service posts a link to a news article. That service is required to pay a fee to the organisation representing Spanish newspapers. Failure to pay could mean a fee of up to €600,000.

I think this is just another form of censorship. Because who would risk €600,000 to post a news article

NDM 40

http://www.theguardian.com/media/pda/2009/sep/18/oxford-social-media-convention-2009-journalism-blogs
How social networking is changing journalism

• Impact of social media was overestimated in the short term and underestimated in long term
• 8% of the Daily Telegraph web traffic comes from social media. 
• social media has developed in the financial sphere

A conference in Oxford explores the interaction between the internet and the news industry. Richard Sambrook, the director of the BBC Global News Division, said that the "impact of social media was overestimated in the short term and underestimated in long term". He said mainstream media are adopting social media especially with blogging and twitter, but nobody discusses the effects on the long term. Sambrook thinks that organisations don't own the news any more. "There is a transformation for the journalist from being the gatekeeper of information to sharing it in a public space", he added that citizen journalism, therefore, is something that has to be taken in account.

I agree with Sambrook with the short/long term. I think that platforms such as Twitter and blogging are being used more than ever and it's providing more and more opportunities for citizen journalism. It can be argued that this will be the cause for less journalism, but Sambrook was optimistic in the fact that "Journalism will stay". He thinks that journalism adds to what is essentially just information: "Journalism needs discipline, analysis, explanation and context, he pointed out, and therefore for him it is still a profession. The value that gets added with journalism is judgement, analysis and explanation - and that makes the difference."

NDM 39

http://uk.pcmag.com/opinion/39192/opinion/windows-10-ambitious-but-realistic
Windows 10: Ambitious But Realistic

• The operating system is still in progress
• Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for the first year for users of Windows 7, Windows 8
• Microsoft would continue to provide updates "for the supported lifetime of the device,

As Microsoft unveiled the details of Windows 10 on Wednesday, I heard company executives explaining how it will work on a wide range of devices from desktops and laptops to tablets and phone, from an 84-inch conference room device called Surface Hub to an augmented reality headset called HoloLens. The sheer number of different kinds of devices that are meant to run this operating system and work with it seamlessly seems a huge undertaking.

I think the release of windows 10 is going to be very successful, current 95% of the PC industry is dominated by Microsoft 4% Macintosh and the rest other OS systems like Linux etc.. Having this big update in the fashion of holding a keynote to build the hype just like its predecessor Apple does

questions

1. How did the language and selection of images in the coverage create a particular representation of young people?
Negative representation of the youth and teenagers in particular due to the incorporated Mise-en-scene being a recall to that of action films and unlined reality which may have over exaggerated the riots to create an even more inaccurate representation of young people

2. Why does David Buckingham mention Owen Jones and his work Chavs: the demonisation of the working class? 

The survey discovered that 40% of articles that included/mentioned young people primarily focused on violence and not their positive achievements. Also, 71% of the overall articles presented them in a negative manner.

3. What is the typical representation of young people – and teenage boys in particular? What did the 2005 IPSOS/MORI survey find?

How can Stanley Cohen’s work on Moral Panic be linked to the coverage of the riots?The theory of moral panic can be applied as the coverage of the riots constructed an overall consensus of fear and panic for young people whist it was occurring which undoubtedly has stayed with many individuals.

4. What elements of the media and popular culture were blamed for the riots?

Majority of the media culture is to blame because of rap artists, violent video-games and reality T.V.

5. How was social media blamed for the riots? What was interesting about the discussion of social media when compared to the Arab Spring in 2011?

Majority of the media culture is to blame because of rap artists, violent video-games and reality T.V.

6. The riots generated a huge amount of comment and opinion - both in mainstream and social media. How can the two-step flow theory be linked to the coverage of the riots? 

Alternatively, how might media scholars like Henry Jenkins view the 'tsunami' of blogs, forums and social media comments? Do you agree that this shows the democratisation of the media?The two step-floe theory can be linked as 'twitter famous' individuals became opinion leaders on which many of their follower relied on their opinion to help construct their own.

7. What were the right-wing responses to the causes of the riots?

The two step-flow theory can be linked as celebrities became opinion leaders on which many of their follower relied on their opinion to create their views.

8.What were the left-wing responses to the causes of the riots?

The Left wing blamed society and its social class and inequality factors

9. What are your OWN views on the main causes of the riots?

The right wing response was negative as they were compared to beasts and dogs that could not be controlled and needed to be put on 'leashes'.

10. How can capitalism be blamed for the riots? What media theory (from our new/digital media unit) can this be linked to?

11. Were people involved in the riots given a voice in the media to explain their participation?

I believe the riots took place due to bias representation of the youth in the media and the cut of funds that kept teenagers busy in long uneventful periods.

12. In the Guardian website's investigation into the causes of the riots, they did interview rioters themselves. Read this Guardian article from their Reading the Riots academic research project - what causes are outlined by those involved in the disturbances?

13. What is your own opinion on the riots? Do you have sympathy with those involved or do you believe strong prison sentences are the right approach to prevent such events happening in future?

NDM Articles

1. 12/09/2014 - iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus have had record breaking sale figures
2. 13/09/2014 - ISIS release video showing execution of British hostage
3. 15/09/2014 - Minecraft sold: Microsoft buys Mojang for $2.5bn
4. 17/09/2014 - Sony Turnaround Effort Falters, Expects $2.15 Billion Yearly Loss
5. 18/09/2014 - iOS 8 causes bandwidth spikes nationwide, despite slow uptake
6. 21/09/2014 - Labour minimum wage promise would see £8 per hour rate by 2020
7. 22/09/2014 - Traffic halted on M25 as 13 'illegal immigrants' flee lorry
8. 22/09/2014 - Microsoft delays Chinese launch on Xbox one consoles
9. 28/09/2014 - Sam Pepper accused of sexual assault
10. 29/09/2014 - Islamic State crisis: Iraq air strikes 'halt IS advance'
11. 03/10/2014 - Celebrity victims of naked photo hack join together to sue Google $100M
12. 06/10/2014 - Microsoft gets $1bn in Android royalties from Samsung

13. 06/10/2014 - Revenge pornography
14. 13/10/2014 - Apple's iPhone-based 'Pay' launches this week
15. 02/01/2012 - Snapchat Hack
16. 16/10/2014 - Netflix price increases hurt subscriber growth
17. 20/10/2014 - Google Search Engine
18. 20/10/2014 - Social Networking sites automatically' hand over Isis terrorists' data
19. 24/10/2014 - Facebook will now let you post anonymously
20. 03/11/2014 - Facebook sets up 'dark web' link to access network via Tor
21. 10/11/2014 - ITV under pressure to axe Dapper Laughs show over misogyny claims
22. 14/11/2014 - Twitter's debt assigned 'junk' status
23. 14/11/2014 - Phone and web data plan under fire for interfering with privacy
24. 17/11/2014 - Google Project Loon
25. 17/11/2014 - YouTube's Subscription Music Service
26. 21/11/2014 - Now e-cigarettes can give you malware
27. 08/12/2014 - UK set to be first country in which more than half of ad spend goes digital
28. 08/12/2014 - French journalism school executive accused of plagiarism
29. 08/12/2014 - YouTubers ads for Oreo banned for not making clear purpose of videos
30. 05/01/2014 - North Korea responds with fury to US sanctions over Sony hack
31. 25/12/2014 - Lizard Squad DDOS Sony Microsoft
32. 05/01/2014 - Apple faces lawsuit over storage space on iPhones and iPads
33. 05/01/2014 - Study claims more than 80% of 'dark net' traffic is to child abuse sites
34. 05/01/2014 - Driverless cars to be tested in UK
35. 05/01/2015 - Microsoft Nokia 215
36. 05/01/2015 - Mark Zuckerberg starts online book club, sells out Amazon
37. 05/01/2015 - Streaming: the future of the music industry, or its nightmare?
38. 05/01/2015 - Superman ‘ecstasy’ pill deaths are result of ‘illogical and punitive drugs policy’

NDM 38

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/05/superman-ecstasy-pill-death-result-uk-illogical-punitive-drugs-policy
Superman ‘ecstasy’ pill deaths are result of ‘illogical and punitive drugs policy’

• Seizure of 400 pills on Sunday night
• A man has been charged and two men have been bailed after arrests made as part of the investigation into the deaths
• Resulting in death of 4 men

The deaths of four men who had taken pills they thought were ecstasy are the result of the government’s “illogical and punitive drug policy”, a former drugs tsar has said. Dr David Nutt, who advised the last government on drugs policy until 2009, said that current policy had targeted the production and sale of MDMA only to see it substituted by a more toxic substance. MDMA is the chemical name for ecstasy, but the pills bearing a Superman emblem that have been linked to four recent deaths – three in Suffolk and one in Telford – are believed to have been made with a high concentration of the chemical PMMA.

NDM 37

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/02/streaming-music-industry-apple-google

Streaming: the future of the music industry, or its nightmare?

• Britons streamed 14.8bn tracks last year. Almost double the 7.5bn of 2013

According to the music business body the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), Britons streamed 14.8bn tracks last year, almost double the 7.5bn of 2013, as internet connectivity improves and becomes pervasive. 

Learner Response

LR (do this on a blog posting, with the feedback I've given you)...

• Rewrite the conclusion, to include a proper (your own) conclusion, and more extended paragraphs –make sure you give specific, concrete examples of each point you make

The development of new/digital media has made the audience both more powerful in terms of consumption and production, in the current digital era new and digital media has revolutionised the world, along with the internet being the most important medium of the twentieth century. This essay will be covering both sides of the argument.

A Marxist perspective would argue that the information revolution has done little to benefit audiences or to subvert the established power structures in society. Far from being a great leveller (Krotoski, 2012) as many have claimed, it has merely helped to reinforce the status quo by promoting dominant ideologies. The most popular news website in the UK by a considerable margin is the ‘Mail Online’, which receives more than 8 million hits every month and is continuing to expand rapidly – with forecasts that it will make £100 million or more in digital revenues in the next three years. Similar to its tabloid print edition, the website takes a Conservative, right-wing perspective on key issues around gender, sexuality and race and audiences appear to passively accept what the Marxist theorist, Gramsci, called a hegemonic view. When one of their chief columnists, Jan Moir, wrote a homophobic article about the death of Stephen Gately in 2009 there were Twitter and Facebook protests but, ultimately, they did not change the editorial direction of the gatekeepers controlling the newspaper.

Conclusion: On the other hand Marxists also believed in print and analog broadcast models to be dying media, such as those of television and radio. In the past years we've seen a rapid transformation where the media has changed the way we as consumer take in our media via digital platforms. The advancement of technology has led to old media being published online through publication websites, For example: Newspaper articles and magazine are uploaded onto the Suns Website where people how have subscribed can access all the content.

NDM 36

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/mark-zuckerberg-starts-online-book-club-sells-out-amazon-9958091.html
Mark Zuckerberg starts online book club, sells out Amazon

• The founder of Facebook is encouraging the 30 million users of his site to join him in reading a new book every other week this year
• The page has already received over 122,000 likes
• Moises Naim’s The End of Power - was out of stock on Amazon by Sunday night.

The founder of Facebook is encouraging the 30 million users of his site to join him in reading a new book every other week this year, and to participate in literary discussions on his 'A Year of Books' Facebook page.

NDM 35

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2864612/microsoft-still-believes-in-feature-phones-launches-29-nokia-215.html
Microsoft still believes in feature phones, launches $29 Nokia 215

• The screen measures 2.4 inches and the camera has a 0.3-megapixel resolution.
• Uses the Series 30+ operating system and has Bing Search and an Opera Mini Browser
• Maximum download speed of only 236.8kbps using Edge
• $29 price tag
• Phone’s stand-by time of up to 29 days

Launching a feature phone at the beginning of 2015 may seem strange, but Microsoft is convinced there is still a market for the Nokia 215 as a second phone and in parts of the world were electricity is scarce and budgets are small. Global mobile phone shipments increased to 459.5 million during the third quarter, including about 140 million feature phones.

I think that the mobile phone market has alot of potential smartphones are increasingly having more problems, battery life, memory, privacy. Whereas pior to smartphones life was so much easier with mobile phones providing you with the essentials you need. Can see people going back to mobile phones because of these problems I myself would like to move back to a mobile phone which has a long battery life, current smartphone only lasts afew hours before the battery drains. Maybe companys need to start investing in ways to tackle the battery problem like other companies are currently doing with wireless charging that can charge 10 times faster than a normal plug. 

NDM 34

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/01/driverless-cars-tested-uk-bristol-coventry-milton-keynes-greenwich
Driverless cars to be tested in UK

• Government funding of £19m will allow three separate trials to take place
• We’re looking to start our first trial with automated shuttles with members of the public in May
• Arup is to lead this project with Jaguar Land Rover and Ford contributing
• The trials in Milton Keynes and Coventry will be run by a consortium named UK Autodrive

Driverless cars are to be tested in all those locations in trials that will put the UK at the forefront of automated vehicle technology. Government funding of £19m will allow three separate trials to take place: one in Bristol, one in Greenwich and one split between Coventry and Milton Keynes. The trials, lasting from 18 to 36 months, will test different aspects of self-driving technology. All will take place away from public roads, though each is aimed at making automated vehicles on Britain’s roads a reality. The trials will use semi-autonomous cars that can drive themselves for periods of the time with a human driver behind the wheel

I dont think driverless cars have been mastered yet, new technology is always arising and in a few years time we will have better technology to test and create driverless cars. Currently Jaguar, Land Rover, Ford and Arup are participating in the trials that will be carried out in the UK over milton Keynes and Coventry 

NDM 33

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/31/dark-web-traffic-child-abuse-sites
Study claims more than 80% of 'dark net' traffic is to child abuse sites

• More than 80% of dark net internet traffic is generated by visits to websites offering child-abuse material
• Sites with paedophile material represent just 2% of the estimated 45,000 hidden services websites online at any one time
• Owen also claimed that drug-related sites like Silk Road and Agora accounted for 24% of hidden service sites but 5% of overall traffic

More than 80% of so-called “dark net” internet traffic is generated by visits to websites offering child-abuse material, according to a study of Tor “hidden services” websites conducted at the University of Portsmouth. Researcher Dr Gareth Owen analysed traffic to sites using Tor’s technology to hide their addresses from search engines over a six-month period, in an attempt to understand what kind of sites were most popular. The study focuses on websites using Tor’s technology to hide themselves, rather than the surfing habits of individual internet users using Tor’s anonymising features. The latter are not spending 84% of their time visiting child-abuse websites.

The 'dark web' a anomalous platform for criminals to buy and sell drugs, upload child pornography, sell their services for a hitman has reports that upto 80% of traffic monitored has come from visiting the child pornography section. Just shows how serious the dark web is and the government needs to invest more money in trying to tackle a way to track users down who use any of the dark webs services.

NDM 32

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/02/apple-lawsuit-storage-space-iphones-ipad-ios8-software-advertised-capacity
Apple faces lawsuit over storage space on iPhones and iPads

• Firm failed to tell consumers that iOS 8 software could take up as much as 23.1% 
• People who bought the law suit are seeking $5m (£3.3m) in damages and a trial by jury
• The defendant fails to disclose to consumers that as much as 23.1% of the advertised storage capacity of the devices will be consumed by iOS 8

Following complaints about the large amount of storage that Apple’s latest software iOS 8 takes up on its iPhones and iPads, the US tech firm is being sued for the alleged misrepresentation of the storage capacity of the devices. The suit is being brought on behalf of two Miami residents, Paul Orshan and Christopher Endara, who claim to have bought iPhones and iPads in the last year advertised with 16GB of storage but providing less to the user.

Many users are effected by this issues and has damaged apples public image. It is standard practice for consumer electronics manufacturers to advertise the total storage capacity of their devices without disclosing the amount taken up by the pre-loaded software.

NDM 31

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/25/playstation-xbox-down-lizard-squad-hack-christmas
PlayStation and Xbox facing issues after Christmas Day attack

• PSN Service was disrupted for a total of 6 days but only 4 days for Xbox Live
• DDOS - Disrupted Denial of Service sends packets of requests to the main server which then gets confused and crashes leaving users without the ability to access some features.
• Lizard Squad accepted mega uploads offer for 300,000 encrypted vouchers

Lizard Squad began on Wednesday by blasting Xbox Live offline with a DDoS attack that bombarded Microsoft’s servers with the digital equivalent of shrapnel until they ground to a halt. Then it did the same to Sony’s PlayStation Network.

I was personally effected by the actions lizard squad carried out but I do support the message they're trying to get across that big corporations don't invest money back into their services even though users have to subscribe to use the online features. Lizard Squad is known for DDOS attacks, a process that overloads the system until it shuts down. It has attacked several targets in the past including Twitch, EA Games, Destiny and World of Warcraft. This isn't the first cyber-attack that Sony had to face. Last month, Sony was attacked and it resulted to the dissemination of unreleased movies and celebrity personal information over the Internet. 

NDM 30

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/04/north-korea-fury-us-sanctions-sony
North Korea responds with fury to US sanctions over Sony hack

• US sanctioned 10 North Korean government officials and three organisations
• The US has described the sanctions as only the first part of its response
• It was the first time the US has imposed sanctions on another nation in direct retaliation for hacking an American company
• The cyber-attack on Sony’s computers led to the distribution over the internet of information on employees and unreleased films, as well as embarrassing in-house emails

North Korea has furiously denounced the United States for imposing sanctions in retaliation for the Pyongyang regime’s alleged cyber-attack on Sony Pictures. North Korea’s foreign ministry reiterated that it did not have any role in the breach of tens of thousands of confidential Sony emails and business files and accused the US of “groundlessly” stirring up hostility towards Pyongyang. He said the new sanctions would not weaken the country’s 1.2 million-strong military.

I think that North Korea were behind the attacks as they previously praised the hacks on Sony as a 'righteous deed' and described The Interview a comedy about the assassination of the North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un as an 'act of war'. Although the FBI has officially declared North Korea responsible for the cyber attack on Sony Pictures, a number of private security specialists have expressed doubt that the country was involved.