Mest 3 Exam Blog

WWW: Your response stays focused on the idea of power in the media which is good to see. The inclusion of Pluralist perspectives is good and definitely something you need to include in your real exam essay but you talk about this at different times rather than a clear, focused paragraph on it. You do have some of your own opinion and you do mention some of the things we have studied to focus on the question - Paywalls and examples such as Black Lives Matter which are up to date. Your essay writing technique has improved which shows you have taken advice on forming topic sentences which engage with the question and use quotes to support an argument. EBI: Your main issue is lack of depth and balance.  Use the key words from the question and show the reader clearly where the paragraph is going so that you don't have two paragraphs about Pluralism and none on Marxism. You need to embed quotes more, as you do later in the essay   You also define pluralism and citizen jo...

1) Is our news influenced by American cultural imperialism? Give some examples arguing for or against this perspective. In my perspective, I do think that our news is influenced by American cultural imperialism. An example of this would be how during the 2016 election, it continued to make headlines in the UK even though we wasn't familiar with it - Galtung and Ruge's news values. Most recently, another big news story that made big headlines in the UK was the Harvey Weinstein scandal of him being accused of sexual assault and etc.  2) Has the increased globalisation of news improved the audience experience? How? Why? In terms of the globalisation of news improving the audience experience, I have two different perspectives. I do think that it has improved audience experience in the sense that they are able to receive up to date content; it is almost instantaneous with how fast the news get reported on the media by news institutions and individuals. But how...

The development of new/digital media means the audiences is more powerful in terms of consumption and production. Discuss the arguments for and against this view.  Due to the developments of new and digital media, both of the audiences and the media institutions have had an increase in power that they hold in terms of consumption and production. The developments of the new and digital media has allowed both to take advantage of the developments as they are able to produce content and share it to so many people around the world which they do through social networking sites. This essentially gives new and digital media the effect of globalisation as it allows the users to produce content for people in many different countries. In this essay, I will argue for and against the view of how the audiences is more powerful in terms of consumption and production due to the development of new and digital media. A perspective of a pluralist would agree with the viewpoint that the audiences ...

30 / 11 / 2017 - Facebook disables ethnicity advert targeting system  Within this article, it talks about how Facebook have turned off a system that let advertisers choose which ethnic and minority groups saw their ads. A news organisation called "ProPublica" discovered that the system could be abused by posting discriminatory ads on the social network. Facebook stated that they would look for a change so that there would be no innapropriate posts.  Last year, ProPublica first discovered the ethnic discrimination via advertising was possible. US laws prohibit discrimination in the way ProPublica demonstrated - in adverts relating to housing, for example - was possible. Last week, ProPublica tried again  to post discriminatory ads that were not shown to people who were: African-American Jewish Hispanic interested in Islam part of other ethnic or minority groups All the ads it submitted were approved. Facebook does not explicitly ask its users t...

30 / 11 / 2017 - Google faces mass legal action in UK over data snooping  Within this article, it focuses on how the massive Google company have been taken into court as it has been accused of collecting the personal data of millions of users, in the first mass legal action of its kind in the UK. The allegations involving Google have been very recent.  Allegations such as the personal information of 5.4 million users have been unlawfully harvested by Google Richard Lloyd the ex-Which director is taking an action against Google in a group The users could get up to hundreds of money back according to Richard Lloyd  The case follows up how Google used cookies to receive personal information to target ads.  'Abuse of trust' The Safari workaround, as it became known, affected a variety of devices but the UK case will focus on iPhone users. Mr Lloyd said: "In all my years speaking up for consumers, I've rarely seen such a massive abuse of trust whe...