Shirky

2008 Election – Some concern that there may be vote suppression. Video the vote, and document the voting purposes, with citizen observations. To ensure the sanctity of the vote.

Innovation can happen everywhere, and in media, moving from one spot. Largest increase of expressive capability. Only 4 periods in 500yrs where media can ‘revolutionise’.

The Internet is the media which has native supports for individuals AND groups. Media is natively good at supporting this. All media might move to the net, and every medium is available to everyone. Groups which see/hear can talk.

In a way, we can build our own news story. The media used to come from many different places and sources. Now, the Internet can do all of this! Every time a new consumer joins, a producer does too. Reporting as it happened. No choice these days. The media allowed for many different sites during China’s 2008 Earthquake. The great firewall of China, and they can filter the news.

Newspaper Front Page - Meghan and Harry

Plan for daily mail front page:

Interview:

·         Friends since 2005

·         Meghan and Brett – childhood friends

·         Indiana Savannah was her makeup artist

·         Continued speaking since 2005

·         Screenshots of messages

·         Brett – outgoing, manipulated

·         Brett Carpenter, 32, producer

·         Met in NY

·         He is bitter and resentful towards Meghan

·         Indiana Savannah said he should cut Meghan out

·         She did it for publicity and fame

What to do:

·         Small written article

·         Picture – harry looking sad

·         Dramatic, capital letters, bold

·         Celeb story at the side

·         Health story at the top

·         Big headline about the affair 

Evaluation: 
      The task we were given was to create a newspaper front page for The Daily Mail, about the story of Meghan cheating on Prince Harry. The target for the papers front page was mid market, aiming at C1 and C2. The research I undertook was to look at other popular front covers for the Daily Mail, and took note of the things I should include on my front cover, for example, adverts, spoilers and a large headline. I found typical conventions of a Tabloid from looking at my notes and looking at a range of Daily Mail front pages. 

      I used this paper front page as my main source, and the observations I made from this were that they had a large part of the front page as the main headline, then there was another advert up the side. I saw they used The Bake Off as an advert, so i also used it as that showed their target audience they aim at. The heavy font used for the headline created an immediate impact for me so I also used a large heavy font. 

      The areas I found most challenging were deciding the headline, as this is what creates the first impact to the reader, and also creating the layout for the paper was challeinging as it took alot of time to get everything in the right place. My initial feedback for my paper front page was that it has all the correct concentions on it, however it needs a different font for the headline, and also the spacing isnt quite right for the leading article. Other people said the font is the thing that needs editing, but overall I think it is quite successful. From completing this task I have learnt about newspapers that the type of adverts and spoilers on the front page create the first impact it makes on the person who buys it, as it either relates to your preferences or not, which makes the person decide immediatly whether they want to purchase the paper or not.

ASSESSMENT 1A

Newspaper History