Case study examples

Print 

• Press coverage of riots
• the i (20p version of independent)
• Time out (magazine)

TV/Film

• Ill Manors
• Top Boy 
• Kid/adulthood
• Some Girls
• Our Girl
• Anuvahood
• Attack the Block
• Inbetweeners
• Outnumbered 
• Misfits
• Beaver Falls 
• Made In Chelsea

E Media 

• E-20
• SBTV
• Grime Daily
• Spiff TV
• Social Networking- Youth crime commisioner Paris Brown (17). "Teenaged twitter users are not the sharpest knife in the draw.
• Riots+BBM
• Mail Online

Leveson Inquiry

After much dispute over if the press should be regulated or not after the phone hacking it’s been decided that there will be some regulations put in action. The aim is to create an independent regulator that has the authority to fine, whilst also handling the libel and privacy claims. Talks regarding implementation between politicians and the press are to start in December 2012, and Lord Hunt, the current chair of the PCC, said the new regulator should be set up by summer 2013

I think that this is way is the best way because to let them get away with intruding people’s privacy is out of order. But then again to completely regulate the media would ruin the freedom of speech and it could also stop stories that the public should know from coming out. So meeting in the middle is a good solution to keep the boundaries of the press. Also restricting print media shouldn’t affect the majority of the population because of the new and digital media that’s on offer to the public, even though there is still a minority still using print there’s only going to be regulations maintaining the boundaries and not completely restricting the news.

 George Entwistle was the former Director General of the BBC, only lasting 54 days he was given £450,000 to leave the job which is equivalent of a years pay. Entwistle was questioned on whether he knew about the alleged sexual assaults that Jimmy Savile committed and if he did, why was it covered up? why, instead of revealing these crimes did the BBC celebrate Jimmy Savile's life? After watching Entwistle's giving evidence to MP's about the Newsnight investigations I thought that he definitely wasn't prepared although given the fact that he only worked there for a short period of time nevertheless he was in a high status job, working for a massive institution and should've kept on top of things. During the investigation Entwistle was asked how many sexual harassment complaints there were since the 1970's; he replied with "I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that". so he asked what about recently, in the last couple years and again Entwistle didn't know. Moreover to add to that, the former Director General thought it's perfectly normal for up to 5 sexual assaults a year to happen because the BBC is a big institution. So overall, the decision to pay-off George Entwistle was right because he just had too many screw ups and wasn't taking any right actions.
Sally Bercow the wife of the Commons speaker John Bercow disappears off twitter after posting comments on the school girl who allegedly ran away with her maths teacher and also indirectly agreeing that Lord McAlpine is a child abuser. The case with the teenager who allegedly ran ran away with her teacher to France this year, an order has been made under section 39 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, banning identification of the girl but because Mrs Bercow named the teenager and now she’s being fine for £5,000 for contempt of court after breaching the order which bans revealing the identity of the girl who allegedly ran away with her teacher to France this year. Sally Bercow also tweeted this after Newsnight: “Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *innocent face*” suggesting that he’s a child abuser. But after finding out that it was just a case of mistaken identity, so Lord McAlpine settled for £185,000 from the BBC but now is suing Sally Bercow.

Sally Bercow is the wife of a speaker from the Commons, the way she acted was immature and was not professional at all. She named a girl who's identity was suppose to be kept hidden and now it's going to affect that young girls life, personally being fined £5000 is'nt enough but the embarrassment she faced was.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ5JkLL4EmI

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/22/jimmy-savile-scandal-george-entwistle-evidence

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2235685/Sally-Bercow-silenced-Twitter-Speakers-wife-disappears-cyberspace-latest-gaffe.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/if-sally-bercow-were-a-man-would-she-be-quite-so-vilified-8340348.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/nov/20/sally-bercow-twitter-feed-deleted

The Internet

How much information is in circulation on the internet (in gigabytes)?

Over 5 billion gigabytes.

http://www.wisegeek.com/how-big-is-the-internet.htm

What proportion of the world’s population can now go online? 

6,930,055,154 of the worlds population   

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

The number of people who could access the internet in 1995?

16million users 0.4% of the population

http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm

The number of people who can access the internet in today?

2,280 million users 32.7% of the world population

http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm




How has the internet changed the nature of information?
http://zanderh18.tripod.com/id2.html
http://mrinfrastructure.com/the-nature-of-it/nature-of-it
It’s almost like technology is our parent because we have become so dependant.

We’ve seen the industry evolve from sysadmins being a bunch of doctoral and master’s students to kids graduating from high school knowing how to program in a number of languages with a CCNA certification
The interconnectedness of today’s market means that everyone wants access to everything, NOW.
The internet has allowed us to start working from any location which makes life much more convinient and easier.

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/749/ar98/pdf/economy.pdf
it took  35 years for radio to reach 50 million listeners. Television needed 13 years to reach that same number of people. In comparison, it took the Internet only four years.

How has the internet changed the way we communicate?

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/749/ar98/pdf/economy.pdf

The Internet has reached farther and faster than any previous
communication technology. For example, it took  35 years for
radio to reach 50 million listeners. Television needed 13 years to
reach that same number of people. In comparison, it took the
Internet only four years.

http://willlonghini.com/post/3992576836/how-technology-has-changed-the-way-we-communicate
Technology allows us to stay connected to everyone we know, ones we don’t, and some that we don’t expect to interact with again.


One criticism that has been brought up about the use of technology in developing relationships is that people can hide behind the technology wall. One may be more comfortable interacting with another through text messages, instead of face-to-face.


How has internet changed privacy?
http://neweranews.org/blog/has-facebook-changed-our-views-on-privacy

"When I got started in my dorm room at Harvard, the question a lot of people asked was 'why would I want to put any information on the Internet at all? Why would I want to have a website?"
Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook.

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-3445_162-7323148.html
Today our private lives are no longer so private. 


"When we talk about a right to privacy, what we are really talking about is the right to control information we consider to be private,"


How has the internet changed businesses?


http://briangosur.hubpages.com/hub/The-Internet-Has-Completely-Changed-The-Way-We-Do-Business
The ability to connect with anyone anywhere in the world with a simple click of the mouse has given corporations a chance to grow and spread to every corner of the earth; and small businesses that would never have had a chance to succeeded,


No matter what your business is, it is difficult to succeed today without internet marketing

http://smallbiztrends.com/2005/06/top-five-ways-internet-has-changed.html

1. Email:

Because it changed the way small businesses communicate in business

2. Google:

Because it changed the way small businesses advertise

3. eBay:

Because it introduced online auction sites where small businesses can now buy and sell for their businesses

4. Amazon.com: Because it introduced small business to e-commerce

5. Online networking (such as LinkedIn.com): Because it enables business owners to share ideas and find business partners all over the country

UK's Broadband Penetration

The UK's internet penetration last year in 2011 was 46 million which is 72% and increased this year to 47 million (74%). However 17% still use dial-up connection.