Pass 1
TIMELINE OF TECHNOLOGY!!!!
1439
The Invention
of the Printing Press, Allowed for mass printing of documents. Mainly used to
print bibles at the time.
1665
Publication
of the first Journals: The Philosophical Journal of the Royal Society. Most people are still unable to read. Journals
published for scientists, inventors and educated people. Therefore further
enhancing science.
1731
First
magazine published in London, Published Monthly which shows printing technology
has improved. General interests show wider audience so more literacy. Most
people still cannot read.
1788
First major
newspaper published in the UK, Technology is now up to printing daily. This allows
people to get info the day after the event.
1876
The
Telephone is Invented, Allows real time communication over long distances.
Speeds up commerce.
1912
Home
telephones are available allows public to talk directly to each other.
1922
BBC Radio
Begins Broadcasting. The first
fast media, very popular, Transmits information directly into people’s homes,
Hitler used this to gain support.
1936
BBC begins
broadcasting Television in the UK, Even more powerful form of mass media. BBC
was created to inform, educate and entertain.
1962
The Internet
is invented, Developed by the American military so that if one military base
was destroyed the others could contact each other via a communication 'net'
1984
Cable TV
Available in the UK, Allows for a lot more TV channels than the three terrestrial
at the time
1985
1st Mobile
Phones available in the UK, Costs around £2000 for half hour talk time bought
for business.
1990
Satellite
TV widely available to UK public, High Tech, beamed from satellites 100's of
channels.
1992
First Text
message sent today is the most popular form of instant communications. 1.2
billion Text messages sent per week.
1993
Publicly
available World Wide Web. Used to find information, buy/sell
2001
3G Mobile
Phones are Invented Pictures and
video, allows members of public to be their own reporters instantly capturing/sharing
images anywhere.
2002
Web 2.0
Emerges, Becomes about social networking
2009
4G Mobiles
available, High speed internet access. Everyone is plugged in to the system
2011
Web 3.0
begins to emerge integrated internet which finds/organises/arranges things on
your behalf.
How
Technology Has Changes The News Media?
Technology
in the news media is a real important thing in order to get news to many people
throughout the world. We depend a great deal on the news to broadcast us
information on tons of topics that get us through everyday life. Throughout the
years news media technology has changed dramatically. One of the ways that news
media technology has changed is through the weather. Weather forecasts are
vital in everyday life to plan out are day. Although weather is a tough thing
to predict even with new and better technology.
Second news
media technology has changed is through how we get financial news. Financial
news such as the Stock Market, which many people make their living on. They
need to know how their stocks are doing and need the equipment to do on the
spot trading and buying. Another way news media technology has changed is
through the Internet. Internet technology has also changed a great deal over
the past years and many people use the Internet to get their daily news rather
watch the news on TV. Many of years ago
going back to 1788 the first major paper was printed in the UK, but when the
paper was being made then the only source of information was from people hand
written notes and information which probably was incorrect then once printed it
could not be changed if any mistakes also then would not be another paper work
a week or so to correct themselves for time to make the next paper. Nowadays
the information that is put on the internet is updated all the time and
newspapers are made daily due the new technology which allows them to do this.
Author: Thomas Purling
Author: Thomas Purling
Pass 2
The Public’s side to the G20 protests in London 2009 turned from a
controlled protest to a violent protest when a band of demonstrators went to
the Bank of England storming a Royal Bank of Scotland branch. Police were armed
with riot shields and batons.
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| G20 Protestors in London 2009 Picture: Ben Browne |
There was an estimated 4,000 people in the financial center of London and
most of the protesters were peaceful ones but due to bloody skirmishes broke
out while the Police of the Metropolitan Police Force tried to keep the
protesters contained around the surrounding area.
A minority of demonstrators seemed determined to cause damage, seeking
confrontation as they surged towards police lines.
By about 8pm, running battles between riot police and demonstrators were
taking place across London Bridge. Bottles and bricks were thrown.
At one stage, after midday, riot officers and police dogs and horses
removed some 20 protesters who had spent a quarter of an hour ransacking an RBS
branch, tearing out computers and telephones. To cheers and shouts, they
smashed several of the bank's windows, writing "burn a banker" and
"scum" in spray paint. Police in riot gear inside the bank tackled
protesters trying to climb in through the smashed windows.
Subsequently, at least 10 protesters sitting down in the street close to the
Bank of England were left with bloody head wounds after being charged by
officers with batons at around 4.30pm. One woman, said to be an Italian
student, was carried off unconscious.
The Metropolitan police said 32 people had been arrested. The offences
ranged from threatening behaviour and criminal damage to violent disorder; two
were arrested for aggravated burglary on the RBS building and one for attempted
arson on the branch. One was detained in possession of a class-A drug, while
another 12 protesters who had turned up at the protest in a blue armoured
personnel carrier were arrested in connection with possession of police
uniforms and road traffic offences.
After the charge against the sit-down protest at students, there were
complaints that officers had been heavy handed. "When people surrounded
RBS, I could understand police tactics," said Jack Bright, 19. "We
were sat down, trying to have a peaceful protest, but they started whacking
us."
With his head wounds bandaged up by an ITN crew, Finn O'Sullivan, 21, said:
"There was a girl in front of me who got hit. Then a bloke got hit and
fell to the floor. I was next in line and just remember shields coming down on
us. The police were stamping and kicking. I asked them to let me through the
line for medical treatment but they said no."
From this
report from the Guardian newspaper shows that there are two sides of the story
in which the riots played out from the prospective of the Police side to the
side of the people actually involved with the riots. The fact that the protest
is referred to as a riot shows how what was mean to be a controlled peaceful
protest turned into to a uncontrolled situation. From what Jack Bright said earlier
in the report shows that his view of the Police’s role was unnecessary violence
towards those who were tried to help those in need.
Story by Jonathan Benton
Resources: Matthew Allison, Tom Purling, Ryan Hall-Galley
Editor: Ben Browne
Merit 1
How new media technology changes the influence of the media.
Recent changes in media technology mean that news nowadays
gets to us almost as soon as it happens. This is by the TV and the World Wide
Web. A lot of big events that go on are now are live on the TV so people
themselves can see what is going on.
For example, each week football scores used to only been seen once the game had been
played on the‘ PINK-UN’ newspaper hours after the matches have been played. Now
a days scores are known ASAP as it is going on, on different sporting channels,(BBC
FINAL SCORE) internet sights, radio and also now on mobile phone (SKY SPORTS
NEWS) apps. This is a wide vary of presentation which makes it better for
people to enjoy and its a lot more entertaining for people who can not afford
to watch it at the ground, and made it easy for people who are out and who can
easily look at there phone for the information.
Not only just for sport media, it’s the same for any news
going on in the world.
Anything that happens, it is soon within hours it is being
published out on to the TV news channels which are on all the time, also
internet which then gets spreads around the world for example as we all know of
the London bombing and 911 ,here is a chart for a example of football
hooliganism:
Aurthor: Tom Purling
Resources: Matthew Allison, Jonathan Benton , Ryan Hall-Galley
Editor: Ben Browne
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