After our lecture today our group for project 4 decided that we would meet up, have some lunch and start brainstorming our topic. Our groups was given mediums and media technologies which is a huge topic, so the first thing we had to do was write down everything we know in relation to the topic, and then try to narrow things down. Here are some of the things we came up with…

News media and broadcasting

  • Main reason for media was to get information to the public
  • Radio
  • The Kings Speech –“Invade peoples homes” Voice of the people and the country
  • Influence of radio at the time
  • Radio was their main source of information
  • The made the shift to entertainment
  • War of the World
  • Paris Terror attacks
      • Facebook posts
      • #prayforparis
      • Other horrific event in Africa didn’t receive as much media coverage
      • Don’t have as well developed media industry as first world countries
  • Originally the news only came from the one place (select organisations and and net works), now anyone can upload information to the internet (video, blog, ect)

Raises the question of is the media bias? Is it good that our news is not coming from one place? 

        • Paris attacks and the medias live coverage of the event which put the hostages and the police in danger
        • Lindt cafe in AUS the media were restricted in what they could show to protect the hostages

Conflict in the Middle East

        • Anyone could make a video about the USA and their involvement in the Middle East and make them out as the bad guys
        • One sided discussion
        • ISIS using internet/social media to recruit people to their cause
  • Through changing technologies we have more of an open forum of the news

After throwing ideas around for a whole we decided that looking into news media, social media, and media distribution and reception could be a good way to go. So now we must research our topics and do an annotated bibliography. The following week we will meet up again and see where we have to go from there.