Summaries
The first article is mainly based around the facts that school life and home life are completely different and although schools try to make everyone the same and treat everyone equally, they are all different. It also focuses on how schools are interested more in teaching about popular culture rather than important cultural or social issues and the effects of the media. There were also issues that the researchers faced before carrying out the study as the two key principles that researchers have to address are: will doing research harm anybody? And do the people being researched consent to being involved? The researchers also believed that they would discover issues that may raise legal issues, however when actually carrying out the study most of what has been said in the media was not discovered, such as the issues of sexting or abuse online.
The second article is based around Periscope and the advantages and disadvantages of the live-streaming app. The advantages of it are that you are able to get live coverage of certain events and in a particular case has been used to catch a drink driver. Furthermore, it enables a marginalised audience to be viewed as anyone can use the app and stream themselves all around the world. However, the obvious issue would be privacy, due to the fact that during live-stream broadcasts people that may not want to be filmed may be filmed without consent, causing privacy issues. Also, the location of where you are when you're streaming is on, therefore there are issues as to strangers knowing where you live and this could be very dangerous. There is also the problem of piracy as people may live-stream the coverage of exclusive events like a boxing match, which is only available on box office and would therefore cost, periscoping this would allow several people to watch the match for free, which conjures up piracy issues.
A2 Essay
I think the A2 essay was so successful due to the fact that it is a clear media debate, focusing on the advantages and disadvantages of using spotify. It also weighs up both sides of the argument and the student also forms their own opinion, backing up their points with several media theories, which makes it an extremely fluent and extensive argument.
How has the media changed your life in the last 5 years?
5 years ago I was not as involved in social networking as I am today; the only social networking sites I used were Whatsapp, MSN and perhaps facebook. However, nowadays, my involvement in social networking sites is much more extensive from Twitter to Instagram and I no longer use facebook or MSN. During the years, social networking in general, has developed largely and from the simple connection and interaction with friends it has become a global phenomenon to interact with a larger bases all around the world. It allows your opinion to be formed and projected to a much wider audience and therefore allows you to connect with new people. I mostly use Twitter and the reason for this is due to the news content it enables me to come across.
Furthermore, I hardly watch TV and if I do it is never a mainstream channel like ITV or BBC. I think Netflix has taken over my life more so, however even Netflix has become a service that I have declined in using.
Overall, I think the media has changed my life positively in the last 5 years as I am able to keep up to date with a lot more social events through social networking and also stay connected with friends and family. The negative impacts it has had on my life however is the fact that when a new app is created and there is a lot of hype about it, I also have to download it to see what the hype is about; this just shows how the media manipulates us as young people.
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