Youtube - Hannah Elmi June 2013

Youtube - A history

Hannah Elmi:

YouTube is a website that was founded in 2005 that allows people all over the world to watch and share videos uploaded by other people. It was created by three former PayPal employees: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen & Jawed Karim.

 

Several countries have blocked access to YouTube like China, Morocco etc.

 

First ever video was uploaded by Jawed and was titled ‘Me at the zoo’.

 

Gangnam Style recently became the most viewed YouTube video with 1,660,625,708 at the moment!

 

More than 1 billion unique users visit YouTube each month.

100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

 

Over 6 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube. (That's almost an hour for every person on Earth.)

 

The Huffington post - Luke Littlechild

The Huffington Post - Luke Littlechild

June 2013 

 

Established in 2005 by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, Andrew Breitbart  and Jonah Peretti. The Huffington Post was launched on May 9, 2005 as a liberal/left commentary outlet and alternative to news aggregators such as the Drudge Report.

 In 2012, The Huffington Post became the first commercially run, United States digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize.

In July 2012, The Huffington Post was ranked #1 on the 15 Most Popular Political Sites list by eBizMBA Rank, which bases its list on each site's Alexa Global Traffic Rank and U.S. Traffic Rank

 It has an active community, with over one million comments made on the site each month.

The site has now invested in video blogging, with many of the site contributors contributing via video, capturing clips in the media and posting them on the site.

In November 2008, The Huffington Post completed $15 million fundraising from investors to finance expansion, including more journalism and the provision of local news across the United States.

Introduction to the Unit

What will we cover for this unit:

• What are ‘We Media’?
• Where / how has ‘We Media’ emerged?
• In what way are the contemporary media more democratic than before?
• In what ways are the contemporary media less democratic than before?

Past exam questions:

     How far can the media in 2010 be considered to be democratic?

Assess the claim that the media is becoming more democratic.

Explore the claim that the ‘new’ media are more democratic than the ‘old’ media.

What is ‘we media’ and what difference

does it make?

 

¨http://oreilly.com/openbook/wemedia/book/

This is where you can access a fantastic book to inform you about this unit's focus. 

¨This is the most definitive book written about ‘We Media’ and you need to work through the chapters in this book to give you a foundation for this area.

 

 

‘We get the media we deserve.’ Discuss, in relation to the role of media in a democracy.