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Aesthetic

• Good editing with use of text + images - kept me engaged
• Well structured but pace too fast
• Too fast, flashing images - distracting
• For  level 4, the images should've been put on the side; not middle

Creativity

• Simple and to the point but still eye catching, though text heavy
• Some found images but not enough
• Kept a consistent theme throughout

Technology

• Used Premiere Pro with good use of effects and image pop-ups to make me want to take in information
• Sound issues - silent!
• Should've used a video

Understanding

• Additional info to class i.e dark web
• A range of interesting ideas presented + media terminology
• Lots of detailed info

Production values

• Good production values using skill set to pull potential but a shame sound didn't work
• Some flaws - pace too fast, not enough depth etc.
• For 47 seconds it was very easy to understand and see

WWW

• Good video overall Callum + Abayomi, aesthetically pleasing and a video that I learnt something new from
• Wells structured - some good ideas about the topic
• Lots of good information, balanced points
• Editing + creativity skills were very high

EBI

• Make sure all aspects of video are working
• More ambitious in terms of producton + address current issues
• Make text larger, slow down info
• Make the slides more longer

Lesson 2: What is wrong with the internet?

Lesson 2: What is wrong with the internet?

• The amount of information available on the internet can be perceived as either beneficial or detrimental

• Andrew Keen likens web pages and blogs to the activity of a million monkeys typing nonsense in his book 'The Cult of the Amateur - How Today’s Internet is Killing our Culture’

Ways the internet is killing our culture:

• It's contributing to less actual face-to-face communication between people meaning social skills aren't as easily found as they once were
• Workers in certain industries are being made redundant due to the main aspects that the internet delivers on meaning that jobs that were once considered as traditional aren't still around in the same sense
• The emergence/rising importance of user-generated content (UGC) has meant that rather than there being just professional quality footage on things like news stories, amateur quality content has been on the increase potentially resulting in the 'dumbing down' of information if they're not 100% objective

Criticisms of pornography

• One study of web searches found that approximately one in six queries to search engines were about sex in 1997, but by 2001 the figure had fallen to one in 12 (Spink et al 2002)
• Tanya Byron in her review for the government on children’s use of the internet and videogames (2008) reported that 57% of 9-19 year-olds had come into contact with pornographic material online, 38% in the form of a pornographic pop-up advert

Effects of access to pornography:

• Desensitisation in that audiences will become less sensitive/responsive and generally accept things they see that should be considered as wrong
• Could potentially lead to an increase in the amount of sexual-related crimes that occur

Criticisms of the accuracy of online information

• Information online often has its fair share of errors due to it not being proof read or subject to editorial checking - can either be deliberate or unintentional
• These errors can range from minimal to quite serious such as with Wikipedia stating that john Seigenthaler had been responsible for John F. Kennedy's death in '05

Ranked online sources (most to least accurate):

• An online study published by OFCOM
• A report on BBC News Online
• An academic paper available at a US University website
• An article on Wikipedia
• A film review in the comments section on IMDB

• A 2005 study by Sonia Livingstone and Magdalena Bober found that the majority of students trusted online information as much as they trusted information in printed books
• 38% of UK pupils aged 9 to 19 never questioned the accuracy of online information and only 10% said they were skeptical of it
• 66% of 9 to 19 year olds who went online regularly had not been given any guidance about how to judge the accuracy of online information 

Impact of digital media video

Impact of digital media video