Today you are going to add 2 points to your essay by researching the following topics;
Only pic a couple of KEY POINTS from each article to use as information in your essays to back-up your argument / main point.
Be ready to share your findings at 3pm with me so get your speed-reading skills ready :)
Audience engagement with evolving media environments
- Piracy- Think about piracy and research recent piracy stats for your essay (also include the point that subscription fees for so many VOD streaming services leads to piracy)
- Very good article re. news impcting our mental health / shaping our views - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200512-how-the-news-changes-the-way-we-think-and-behave
- The change in audiences relationship with news media
https://degree.astate.edu/articles/media-management/recent-changes-in-news-media.aspx
SOCIAL MEDIA NOW THE MAIN SOURCE OF NEWS
"According to Forbes, a 2018 Pew Research Center study found that 50 percent of internet users hear about the latest news through social media before hearing about it on a news broadcast. The platforms Americans rely on most are Facebook (43%), YouTube (21%) and Twitter (12%). While there was a dramatic increase in traffic to the news sites reporting through social media feeds, people are consuming less and less of these articles. Most are simply scanning headlines and looking for short video clips or soundbites. The average visitor reads an article for an astoundingly short 15 seconds, and watches a video for 10 seconds.
It gets worse. Facebook distributes the news in its feeds based on what consumers have already indicated they like. More likes get a story more attention, which means that stories with sex, violence and other forms of sensationalism are favored by the platform. This incentivizes journalists to produce news that gets distributed, regardless of whether it properly informs the public. Yet even worse, each individual consumer gets fed increasing amounts of what they have already indicated they like. In other words, a reader who starts out slightly to the right or left of center will get force fed news that confirms their biases. The macro effect is an increasingly polarized society, with extreme viewpoints becoming the new norm. That dynamic has created an opportunity for "fake news" distributors to further polarize news consumers with information that has no basis in reality, and is — as in the Russian election meddling scandal — created by actors seeking to destroy American democratic intuitions like our election process."
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