Media in the online age revision

Media in the Online Age
Revision

Exam
2 questions to choose from for this topic
1 hour spent on the question
Link your points to two forms of media (film and TV)
Relate to Theory
Express your own opinion!
Focus on the contemporary with brief relation to the past and a prediction for the future.

Theories we looked at:
Henry Jenkins – Participatory Culture
“Everyone is a producer of Media, the desire to create and share is great and we can now communicate across geographical barriers”
E.g. YouTube – we can all create and upload videos, we can all comment on them and join in.
So we are able to 1. Expand communities 2. Extend opportunities 3.Exchange knowledge.

2. Chris Anderson – The Long Tail
Lots of small grossing films
One large grossing blockbuster
If you add up all the revenue from Niche market films the profit can be greater than or equal to the profit from one blockbuster or best selling product.
Pre broadband Niche products were hard to find and expensive to buy, now online shopping/sharing makes it easy to cater for everyone's taste.

Jeff Howe – Crowd Sourcing
This is when someone puts their intent out onto the internet and then gets free support/information/ideas/labour from other people on the internet.
e.g. OkGo – put their idea on ‘Mindshare’ and were able to make their music video from all the free equipment and labour people offered.

Globalisation (no name needed)
Trade barriers are lessened so large media organisations (Google) become global players as they reach wider audiences.
This replaces/pushes out home grown organisations.
Most global companies come from the west and carry the west’s messages and values.
People begin to adopt this dominating culture which results in Cultural Homogenisation.

Other things we discussed
Exhibition – illegal downloads and YouTube as first place for information, we are no longer willing to wait for the real product.
Critical versus Popular review – which holds more weight in today’s society (the importance of speed)
Targeted marketing – cookies on your computer trace what films you have looked at and then adverts pop up to suggest what you might like.
Prosumers – people creating their own films or TV shows and streaming them online for free.

Examples we looked at
Charlie McDonnell - Makes a living off his YouTube videos on his channel Charlieiscoollike (Prosumer)
UltraCulture - Charlie Lyne’s film blog (popular review)
Born of Hope - The Lady who made her own prequel to lord of the rings
Vimeo – Similar to YouTube but just for films.
The Misfits and Little Miss Sunshine websites – To contrast exhibition methods.
24 hour news – you looked at your own examples.

Example Questions:
1. What impact has the internet had on media production, distribution and exhibition?
2. In the last few years what have been the most significant developments in how individuals use the internet?
These questions are very different – don’t just dump all you knowledge on the paper – select the appropriate information for the question.

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Media in the online age revision

by Holly Taylor on May 19, 2011

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