Introduction to NDM: reading and blog task

Introduction to NDM: reading and blog task

1.

The 'Living and learning and digital age' article detailed the link between both life at home and school, with aspects of the media such as social networks being the main thing taken into account. One of the primary things that the article discusses is the way in which although media is encouraged to be used in school to help in terms of things like effective management, things like mobile phones that could have their use implemented to better learning and teaching are completely forbidden there. Not only this but also how some of the happenings that take place on social media have to be tackled by teachers in school is talked about, since they have a sense of responsibility to solve these problems.

The Periscope article mainly talks about how with the app being a 'live video streaming platform,' both privacy and in fact piracy can prove to have quite huge implications. Privacy in the sense that the video can provide people as to your location data without you even granting it that kind of permission and piracy since people can re-transmit what's supposed to be paid-for content. This has been seen with the likes of the Mayweather v Pacquaio fight and the Game of Thrones season 5 premiere. Despite this though, the app can still be said to have potential with the opportunity it provides to do things like provide people with an avenue for citizen journalism.

2.

• The first part of the essay is spent briefly discussing what the case study actually is, including what as a brand its aim is 
• Throughout the essay evaluation points are made signified by the word 'however'. This is done not only with the various arguments but also when thinking about why users of the service may use it in a certain way
• Additionally example are used not only with names of artists but also figures and dates

3.

Digital media has changed my life in a positive sense over the past 5 years in that it's offered a unified, single platform for me to access educational resources and sources of leisure. Whether this has been from websites such as BBC Bitesize or YouTube, digital media has always provided an avenue to obtain information from which I go on to use in things like homework. However a more negative thing is that information from the internet cannot always be 100% regarded as reliable or even truthful, particularly when education is considered, and additionally there's the increasing distraction that digital media provides to the students with the sheer amount of things that it offers.

Task 1

• Text documents 
• Photographs - Instagram, Tumblr and Flickr
• Video - YouTube, Vimeo and DailyMotion
• Movies - Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video and Hulu
• Videogames - Gamespot, Polygon and IGN
• Audio recordings - Soundcloud, Bandcamp and Tidal

Task 2

The internet has been called:

— “the most important medium of the twentieth century” (Briggs and Burke 2005, 244) and:

— “an application that will usher in The Information Age” (Castells 1996, 328)

I do agree with Briggs and Burke in that the internet has been established as somewhat the lead platform of the current times. Other platforms such as print have been on a steep decline and eventually we may happen to see a complete death of them altogether. 

By the Information Age, Castells talks about the current age in which humans have (increased) access to information and also a sense of control over it. 

Task 3

• Privacy
• Communication
• Business
• Nature of information
• Community
• Culture
• Copyright
• Online safety