Obj - What impact does the increase in global media have on media

production?

Harcup and O’NeillHarcup and O’Neill in a survey of British Newspapers in 1999 found that news stories must generally satisfy one or more of the following requirements to be selected as ‘newsworthy.’ Stories are ‘newsworthy’ if they involve:

• THE POWER ELITE.• Stories concerning powerful individuals,

organisations or institutions.• CELEBRITY.• Stories concerning people who are

already famous.• ENTERTAINMENT.• Stories concerning sex, show business,

human interest, animals, an unfoldingdrama, or offering opportunities for humorous treatment, entertainingphotographs or witty headlines.

• SURPRISE.• Stories that have an element of surprise

and/or contrast.• BAD NEWS.• Stories with particularly negative

overtones, such as conflict or tragedy.

• GOOD NEWS.• Stories with particularly positive

overtones such as rescues and cures.• MAGNITUDE.• Stories that are perceived as sufficiently

significant either in the numbers ofpeople involved or in potential impact.

• RELEVANCE.• Stories about issues, groups and nations

perceived to be relevant to theaudience.

• FOLLOW-UP.• Stories about subjects already in the

news.• NEWSPAPER AGENDA.• Stories that set or fit the news

organisation’s own agenda

Dennis McShane

• identified five criteria used by journalists in their selection of news stories:– Conflict

– Hardship and danger to community

– The unusual

– Scandal

– Individualism

Does your Al Jazeera and BBC work confirm this?

Your task

• Track the story of the ‘Arab Spring’ on the both the BBC news and Al Jazeera

• Focusing on specific stories from EGYPT and SYRIA

• Where, when, what, to whom

Your Own Work

• How did you navigate the source material? • What was provided for you to learn this

information?• What information/stories were

highlighted/drawn attention to?• How engaging were the stories? • What were the differences between the two

presentations?• Ext - How were the stories crafted in order to

engage the readers/surfers?

Two contrasting theories – criticise them!

• Bauman 1998• Globalization divides as much

as it unites; it divides as it unites – the causes of division being identical with those which promote the uniformity of the globe.

• What appears as globalization for some means localization for others; signalling a new freedom to some , upon many others it descends as an uninvited and cruel fate.

• Waters 1995• In a globalized world there will

be a single society and culture occupying the planet… it will be a society without borders and spatial boundaries.

• We can define globalization as a social process in which the constraints of geography on social and cultural arrangements recede and in which people become increasingly aware that they are receding.

What impact does the increase in global media have on media production?

• Decide on which theories/argument will fit this question.

• Decide on the fact your are going to use – this can be specific news stories, features of your companies, elements in their online provision.

Drafting a paragraph – TEAL2

• Theory – McLuhan argues ...

• Evidence – This is evident in ...

• Analysis – This indicates that ... as

• Link 2 – Also, however, additionally, this is also

Homework