Learner Response

You also seriously lack examples, quotes and theory. Where are your examples of citizen journalism? Twice you mention the election but you don’t mention the result of the election – the Conservatives won! Doesn’t that suggest all those protests on Facebook were entirely powerless?

LR: Write two new sections for this essay – a strong introduction answering the question from both sides and clearly introducing your News case study. Then, a whole new section looking at the decline in the newspaper industry – lots about consumption and production the

Introduction

In this essay i will be looking at both sides of the argument of whether new and digital media has made audiences more powerful.Audiences have become empowered by new and digital. This is because of how many platforms are available to be accessed, such as BBC, Daily mail and the guardian. From these different platforms we can gain a more wider view on a particular story which allows us to form a more solid opinion about a particular subject. since we have access to such a wide variety of news and values it also allows us a lot of room to share our thoughts about online through social media to a mass audience. This would support the pluralism belief as it allows us as an audience to be more free about our thoughts rather than taking in everything that we hear from the news. A great example how social media has had a huge impact on the news industry is because of how much people have become rebellious, mainly during the election period people set up Facebook pages protesting which allowed many people to gain a better understanding to help them form their own beliefs.on the other hand, you could argue that alot of the stuff posted online could be fake and unreliable so therefore we could potentially be mislead into believing stories which are incorrect. In addition to this if someone with 100 followers posts a tweet about their thoughts on a particular news story or debate and no one reads the tweet, does this really mean that they are empowered?

The power of new and digital media has led to a major decline in the Newspaper industry, the newspaper industry has suffered, the amount of advertising money that has disappeared from the industry and it had worked out to be over $40 Billion and around 60% of the advertising revenue. They believe that $60 billion is the amount that traditional print advertising would've been worth by now. This is a great example of how much new and digital media has had an impact on traditional news. The main factors that caused this decline are things such as mail online, social media and citizen journalism