Leveson enquiry

Leveson enquiry

Lord Justice Leveson will today publish his report into the culture, practice and ethics of the print media, which is expected to be highly critical of the press, politicians and police.

Launched after the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World, the judge's eight-month inquiry heard testimony from various press intrusion victims, including Hugh Grant, Sienna Miller, Charlotte Church and the family of a murdered schoolgirl.

Over the past 7 days more things have escalated i.e.. in prime ministers questions where Cameron stated the g'ment wont get involved unless the papers 'force' him to which i believe is a get out of jail card. furthermore, the verdict was that they do need a regulatory body which is not self-governed but with Cameron' statement arguably he has been ignored.

 

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ITV has today announced a major forthcoming rebrand across its entire business, including a new logo and refreshed identities for all its channels, including ITV1 changing to just 'ITV'. 

The new "unifying brand identity" will be introduced at some point in January 2013 across ITV Plc, the ITV Network and ITV Studios, the broadcaster's production arm.


The ITV logo has been totally refreshed with a curvy, colour-shifting design that will roll out simultaneously across the ITV channels and their +1 networks, including the flagship ITV channel, along with ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and CITV. 

The rebrand has been overseen by Rufus Radcliffe, ITV's group director of marketing and research, who previously rebranded E4 while at Channel 4; and Reemah Sakaan, ITV's director of network marketing, who joined in February 2012 after seven years at the BBC, where she helped rebrand BBC Three. 

ITV decided that the move was necessary as it has not revamped its identity since 2006 and the television landscape has changed drastically since then. Radcliffe said that in the digital television era there are hundreds of media brands all competing for people's attention, and ITV was in danger of getting lost in the crowd.

"People love our shows, but we don't get the credit for bringing them. With all these media brands out there if you don't have a clear brand then you are exposed," he said at a press briefing yesterday. "What this rebrand is about is cementing the relationship between the shows that people love and the ITV brand that makes them."




Whilst the BBC has the ethos "inform, educate, entertain" and Channel 4 adopts the message "mission with mischief", ITV is positioning itself right in the middle. The new branding is anchored in the "DNA" of the broadcaster, according to Radcliffe, and that is being at the "heart of popular culture" with programmes such as Downton Abbey, The X Factor, and Coronation Street.

The new logo drops the rather formal previous style for a curvier typeface and layout that is meant to look like "a form of human handwriting". This will be used across all branding, stationary and other needs connected to ITV Plc, as well as ITV Studios.

In this form, the logo has four colours that are the "perfect points" on the colour spectrum. But this new logo is intended to be a chameleon and will sometimes change according to the show or channel using something that ITV is calling "colour picking". 

For example, when alongside Dancing on Ice, the ITV channel logo will sometimes become purple, blue and green to reflect the show's spangly outfits. When seen alongside Downton Abbey, it will be classy grey, beige and black; and on I'm a Celebrity, jungle greens and browns will feature on the letters.

ITV2 is to become the "home of infectious entertainment", 
with the sixth biggest channel in the UK getting a "hot red" version of the logo and red on-screen identify, including new idents and 'end boards'. 

- ITV3 is to be positioned as the "keeper of ITV's treasured and timeless drama", with a new "midnight blue" logo and idents that feature stories told in shadow-puppet style animation inside glass bell jars. 

- ITV4, which has previously struggled with its identity, will adopt a "slate grey" logo and become the "home of sport and cult classics", as well as a "man club". Channel promotion will include pub factoids - such as "One in ten children in Europe are conceived on an Ikea bed" - and idents featuring viewer nominated "dreams come true", such as driving a Rolls Royce into a swimming pool. 

- CITV will get a yellowy-orange logo and playful idents that "burp and fart, and do other things kids love". 

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a negative representation is better than no representation at all ?

As you know, our case study is the representation of young people in London.

Today's task:

Look through the newspaper cuttings from the week of the London riots in summer 2011. Make notes on the texts that you could refer to in the exam should you choose a question on representation. The following questions may help:

1. What kind of representations of young Londoners can you find?
2. Can you link them to any media theory?
3. How might you use these texts in an exam answer?

Think about how you could use these texts or notes to answer an example question such as the following ?

Dave, the male-orientated entertainment channel owned by UKTV, has been rapped by Ofcomfor featuring a beer brand sponsorship campaign that implied a man was receiving oral sex. 

The regulator received 13 complaints about a Bombardier sponsorship credit which was run around shows such as Mock the Week, Top Gear, Peep Show and Have I Got News for You on the channel. 

It featured the 'Bombardier' character played by Rik Mayall, who also appeared as the character's apparent inspiration Lord Flashheart in comedy series Blackadder.

FIFA 13 has contributed to around 12% of break-ups in the past month

FIFA 13 has contributed to around 12% of break-ups in the past month, according to a new UK survey.

1,124 newly-single people were polled by VoucherCodesPro about why their relationship of one year or less ended.

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© EA

revealed that the latest in EA's football game franchise was a contributing factor.

Of those 12%, 43% said that one person in the relationship was guilty of spending more time withFIFA 13 than their partner, and 87% identified the person playing the game as male.

Facebook testing promoted user posts in the US

Facebook is testing a new product in the US that would allow ordinary users to promote their own status updates, such as birthdays or anniversaries, in their friends' news feeds.

The move, which would mark a major shift in the social network's strategy of not charging its users, involves a 'Promote' button being added to the options around status updates.

i think this was alway on the cads and arguably it just makes the hyperdermic needle and the 2 step flow theory more prominant as i can imagine big companies and "easy women/ men" using it.




 

representation of race and ethnicity

As discussed in today's lesson, I'd like you to write a short analysis on your 13A Exam blog of the representation of race and ethnicity in the two texts we studied today: the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony and the subsequent opinion piece on the Daily Mail website the following day. The links you need:

The Olympic Opening Ceremony on the BBC website - from 56.30 (music section based around the surburban-style house). If that doesn't work, try YouTube where the section you need is a little later (around an hour in).

The Daily Mail article you have a copy of but you may find this Guardian article on it useful.

many different ideas and representations are presented in both the article and the clip from the opening ceremony.

The opening ceremony was predominantly seen as a success and a good representation of modern Britain with multicultural themes running through out the performance. however, some could argue that the whole 'ethnic guy searching for this ethnic girl' promotes a cultural segregation i.e "keep with your own kind" which is a very secondary and cynical  look at the piece. however the preferred reading is still promoting multiculturalism.

in terms of the article it was overwhelmingly negative towards ethnic minorities with the writer going so far as to hint that you could not find a white middle-class woman and a black middle-class man living together happily. This could be playing on the stereotype of "black men dont stick around and look after there kids" however the more likely subtext is the fact that you would struggle to find a black middle class man in Great Britain. 


Another point of view from the text is that the music and the whole feel of it was mostly english/western which arguably could play on Frants Fanon' "black skin , white mask" theory ,this is the theory where in which ethnic people must masquerade as whites to be accepted this is supported by the casting decisions is possibly as far away from fanons infantilize, primitive, decivilized and essentialised theory. however the last song 'bokers' by dizzie rascal is 'stereotypically' a song for black youths which creates a secondary argument which could be that ethnic people and native people now have a shared culture which disproves the equal but different stereotype created after the civil war in america and of course Frantz Fanon.

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Rangers Football Club has continued its feud with the BBC after submitting a formal complaint to the corporation over a "tasteless" TV segment which it feels mocked manager Ally McCoist. McCoist is said to be "angry and disgusted" at the opening title sequence for last night's (September 26) Scottish League Cup television coverage on the BBC. The club said that it had also been "inundated" with calls and emails from supporters who were angry over the stylised animated sequence, which paid homage to the Mad Men titles by depicting a Rangers official, thought to be McCoist, falling from an office window at Ibrox and smashing a club crest. A user on the Rangers Media forum has posted a video of the sequence online. The incident follows a discussion on BBC Radio Scotland show Off the Ball last Saturday entitled 'Super Ally or Fat Sally', in which contributors debated whether fans were still behind McCoist. Rangers has today contacted the BBC to complain about the animated sequence and Off the Ball discussion. In a statement, the club said: "While the manager is known for his good sense of humour, he is both angry and disgusted by the BBC's treatment both of him personally and of the club. "As such, Rangers have made contact with the BBC this morning asking why they have chosen to act in such a manner and we await their response." This marks the latest spat in an ongoing dispute between Rangers and the BBC, which resulted in the Scottish club withdrawing its co-operation with the corporation last October over "repeated difficulties". Rangers also accused the BBC of a "pre-determined negative attitude towards" the club, although the BBC has denied this.

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Y12 Internet Research HW

Complete for homework for either Mon 18/06 (Md12A) or Tue 19/06 (Md12C).


Use the internet to research the following questions. For each answer, provide the TWO different online sources.  Write the questions and answers (with links to your research) on your MEST3 blogs.

• How much information is in circulation on the internet (in gigabytes)?
• What proportion of the world’s population can now go online?
• The number of people who could access the internet in 1995?
• The number of people who can access the internet in today?

How has the internet changed the following? For each area, find at least TWO online articles that discuss these issues. Post up the links on your MEST3 blogs and select THREE quotes that comment on the area.  Then write a short paragraph about each of the bullet points saying what YOU think, in your own words.

• nature of information
• communication
• privacy
• community
• online safety
• business
• culture
• copyright

1. Consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day. A zettabyte is 10 to the 21st power bytes, a million million gigabytes http://hmi.ucsd.edu/howmuchinfo_research_report_consum.php 
2. http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
3. 16 million http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm
4. 2280 million http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm

PART 2 

1) nature of information: the web is more open and free now and with more users using it there is less accountability

2)communication on the web is now extremely simple because of software such as Skype, Facebook and instant messengers which promotes the global village however this could be seen as bad as well.

3) privay online is currently a hot topic because of the current laws being passed that prohibits you from sites als with things like cookies and your internet providers database . has anyone got privacy online?

4)GLOBAL VILLAGE! the internet brings people together , however as the internet is so free things can be put online that could cause moral panic

5) online saftey (for kids) is a hot topic currently in the houses of parliament , as they want to change the law so that you have to ask the company for porn instead of asking them to block porn

6) business has been updated meaning that everything can be done alot simpler using such things as cloud databases. this means business men do not have to be in places physically to show the document or product.

7) some communitys argue that the internet can dilute a countries culture (china) however most liberal democracies believe that blocking the internet is censorship aka trying to deceive the public.

8)in the 21st century plagiarism has become increasingly easy in fact so much so that the only reason record label make money anymore is because of a ploy from a record company releasing a statement "what happend to supporting the artists" this caused many people to take "the moral high ground" even though by doing that the are just instilling the top down approach (supporting the bourgeoisie) instead of making the world a more diverse, cheap and enjoyable place   

                Uk penetration (Broadband)

• 45 per cent of Internet users used a mobile phone to connect to the Internet
• 6 million people accessed the Internet over their mobile phone for the first time in the previous 12 months
• The use of wireless hotspots almost doubled in the last 12 months to 4.9 million users
• 21 per cent of Internet users did not believe their skills were sufficient to protect their personal data
• 77 per cent of households had Internet access

Get all the tables for this publication in the data section of this publication.

from : office of statistics (Gov)