Media Magazine conference Notes

Bill Thompson 
Birth of the internet: 1983
"Permissive network"
...hard to control/manage + open to innovation

Benefits 
connection
information
voices in your head
politician action
campaigning
financial award

Negative:
Bullying
unwanted porn
child sexual abuse
extremis
abuse/trolling
"contact collapse"
scams
fraud
conspiracy theories

"open internet" supports:
equality of opportunity
social justice
freedom of expression

Natalie Fenton:
Now phone hacking =Leveson inquiry
"It was &is about media power" (Nick Davies)

Power over:
media content
audiences
journalists (job insecurity =compliance)
Governments

Power to:
Censor
Mislead
set the agendas

Media and Democracy
Media "the lifeblood of democracy"
plurality of views = informed choices
hold the powerful to account?
promote debate + encourage dialogue?
ind.jouranlsim in the public internet?
commercially-dominated media:
...reliance on advertising?
objectivity + impartiality

How news has changed
explosion of new platforms
24 hours news
free newspapers
faster
journalist pressure
cut and paste journalism
click bait

Hackgate
entanglement of media/political elites
corruption of power
damaged public interest

since 1979 no uk gov elected with Murdoch support

50% national UK papers sold are controlled by: Jonathan harmsworth and Rupert Murdoch
+internet favours voices of legacy media

Hsbc tax evasion unreported:
corporate compliance due to advertising

Does news de-democratise society?

Stuart hall
media defining deviance + normality
over/under representation
'cultural power'

51% think violent crime is rising (but its falling)
24% Muslim of UK pop.(only 5%)

Black lives matter
surveillance

Producer

film making is a collaborative effort
consider location
risk assessment
inform police

Regina Moriarty:
'Murdered by my boyfriend'

Owen Jones:
Ryan
the sun circulation
3 million 2010
1.8 million 2015

Myth of classless society
cut benefits when cleaners or low wage worker don't earn much

young people go university and have debt
can't find jobs

Media Myths:

27% benefits are fraudulent
its 0.7%

People think teenage pregnancies 20 times more