Exam Preperation

Introduction:
Developments in new and digital media mean that audiences can now have access to a greater variety of views and values. To what extent are audiences empowered by these developments?
What text you will focus on and what New Digital Media will be mentioned
Rewrite the question in my own words and provide a judgment on the question considering the text and media platforms.

Paragraph 1:
Trends, this paragraph will focus on the people with a higher social class influencing their audience.
Roland Barthes - Signifier and the Signified

Young and Rubican

Dependancy Theory

271 million Twitter

200 million Instagram 

2 step flow

Paragraph 2:

Twitter freedom of speech on social media facebook Twitter etc

Pluralism

UGC

Two step flow

Stuart hall - Dominant. Oppositional. Negotiated. 

Paragraph 3: 

Media cooperation 

Need corp

Google - YouTube

Rupert Murdok

Only see what he allows

Paretos Law

Paragraph 4: 

News feed 

News of the new age 

Digital divide 

Traditional media dying out

Pick out what they want to know about

Paragraph 5:

Andrew keen: Internet is killing our culture

Socially awkward people

Dumbs people down

Paragraph 6:

2011 facebook revolution - over thrown dictatorship =

Egypt. Tunisia. Libya

The Internet can't be sensored.

Conclusion

Summarise and provide a judgment on the control over audience