MEST3 Identity/NDM stories: updated indexes

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Question: Does your case study suggests that new and digital media have had a positive impact by offering audiences a more diverse range of values and ideologies (48 marks) The exploration of the primary case study of the ‘impact of new and digital media on the news industry’ has revealed many positive impacts, but also negative impacts, of NDM on audiences. This also goes for the secondary case study of ‘Instagram’ which has more of a focus on social media and its impact on audiences. In the news industry, a pluralist perspective may highlight, has been positively impacted by NDM. The increase in user generated content, especially that of citizen journalism, has meant that audiences are receiving more of a diverse range of values and ideologies. This is due to the fact that a wide range of audiences, who all have different voices expressing different thoughts and opinions, can now express themselves communicating on a one-to-many scale. Therefore, audiences collectively have...
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FCC votes to dismantle net neutrality as critics cry 'war on open internet' https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/18/net-neutrality-vote-fcc-open-internet Summary: " Federal Communications Commission will start formal process of repealing Obama-era rule that banned internet service providers from creating fast lanes"  Donald Trump’s newly installed media and telecoms regulator moved to repeal Obama-era rules aimed at protecting an open internet on Thursday, the most serious move to date in what looks set to be a hard fight over the future of the internet. Those rules banned internet service providers (ISPs) from creating fast lanes (or slow lanes) that could favour one service over another and potentially allow them to choose winners and losers online. Critics say the rules could kill a new or existing streaming service and that free speech would be at the mercy of broadband providers. The regulator has claimed it was attacked by hackers but ha...
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Instagram rated as the 'worst for young mental health' https://uk.news.yahoo.com/instagram-rated-apos-worst-young-163857491.html Summary: According to the Royal Society for Public Health, the photo sharing site has negative implications for younger users and can put them at risk of suffering loneliness, depression and body image anxiety. Key facts/stats: The RSPH report  suggests that 'social media may be fuelling a mental health crisis' in young people (via the  BBC ). Their warning comes following the results of a survey which asked 1,479 people aged 14-24 to score apps on issues such as anxiety, depression, loneliness, bullying and body image. The young people taking part were asked to consider issues including emotional support, depression, sleep, self-expression, anxiety, body image, community building and bullying. Instagram rated the worst, having the poorest impact on sleep, body image, fear of missing out, bullying and feelings of anxiety, depr...
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