Media lecture notes

 What has the internet done for me?

• 'Internet is very permissive'
• 'tool for free expression, not oppression'
• Use the net for: 

- Games
-Learning
-Friendship
-Information
-political action
-Caritas and Campaigning
 

 Downsides to the internet -Context Collapse
-The dark web
-Bullying

-Abuse

-Fraud
-Conspiracy theories.

• 'Digital info hard to control'
• 'Code is law'
• 'If you don't know the code of the internet, you have no power'
• 'Teen internet users demand privacy - older generations don't get that'.
• 'Dark Web - secure network - people can't track you.

  Media power and life after Leveson

• News of the world phone hacking
• Media power over: media content, audiences, journalists
• Power to: censor, mislead, set the agenda
• media and democracy
• 'Healthy media is the life blood of democracy- Gives audiences diversity and plurality of views'
• 'Hold the power to account'
• Journalist field - norms around objectivity
• explosion of platforms - free news, rolling news etc
• business model struggling to keep up
• Cut and Paste Journalism - news being copied - disrupts diversity
• 'click bait'
• Internet can give audiences power - freedom - public movement
• 'prosumers' people who create their own info/news
• dispersed/fragmented news media - changed the meaning of politics
• 'Hack Gate' (phone hack) - based on the corruption of power
• Phone hacking came from institution wanting to be competitive
• Chris Jeffries
• Who has the power? is it visible?
• 'We the audience have less power than we think'
• 'Press intimidate democratic practice' - hegemony
• Media defining deviance
• 'Was and is about media power'
• HSBC tax evasion went unreported
• Media de-democratises society
• 50% of national UK papers sold controlled by Jonathan Harmsworth and Rupert Murdoch
  
  Film Production:
  
  
• Producer - overall control of every aspect of the films production
• Sound design is important
• Best stories are the ones only you can tell
• Risk assessment
• Be conscious of the story
• Keep it short, don't overstay welcome
• make it art
• Collaborative effort
• 10 things to remember:-you need to eat

  -don't be afraid to ask
-do you research
-don't be afraid to leave
-it's a very small industry
-The competition is fierce
-congratulate others
- always a market for good stories well told

 Script writing

• book adaptations
• musical adaptations
• play adaptations 
• newspaper headlines
• what is stories
• personal stories
• random ideas
• research read before written
• worked in the background before hand
• met family and friends before happened 
• actress carefully chosen
• had cut stuff out
• closely focuses on the main character
• how much violence to show?
• writing comes out different when filmed
• lots of resources

  Owen Jones: The media, democracy and politics

• Society don't make sense 
• 'Our news media is failing badly'
• unfair society
• young people punished
• rent too high property left vacant by rich people
• home life can cause problems
• society still discriminates
• banks get bailed out by the public
• we had to fight for what we wanted
• press is run by small group of the rich
• get singled out by the press
• middle class journalists don't understand the lower class
• media full of people from privileged backgrounds
• "power conceives nothing without a demand, it never has and it never will"