3.5 Media
From the Specification
Digital media are defined by the convergence of computing, communication and content.
Digital media are created and distributed through multiple channels and platforms.
Digital media are associated with significant opportunities and dilemmas in digital society.
3.5A Types of digital Media
From the Specification
• Text, images, audio, animations, video, web pages
• Gaming and e-sports
• Blogs, vlogs, podcasts, vodcasting and live streaming, hashtags, memes, wikis, streaming media
• User-generated content
• Synthetic digital media, such as artificial intelligence (AI)-generated media and deepfakes
3.5B Characteristics of digital media
From the Specification
Rapid sharing, efficient storage, interactive, linear and non-linear content, convergence (of media forms and layers)
3.5C Immersive digital media
From the Specification
Augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR) and X reality (XR) technologies
3.5D Digital media dilemmas
From the Specification
• Addiction and other psychological concerns
• Impact on journalism, for example, fragmentation and consolidation in the media industry
• Media authenticity, sourcing and deepfakes
• Ownership, copyright, copyleft, Creative Commons, open source, remix culture
• Media obsolescence and digital preservation
• Censorship, content filters, moral panics, decency standards, offensive speech, objectionable content
Potential News Articles
3.5A Types of digital Media
https://www.wired.com/story/voice-recognition-privacy-speech-changer
The Beatles remixed from an old tape thanks to AI - https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63226914
3.5B Characteristics of digital media
Britannica article - https://www.britannica.com/topic/media-convergence
Netflix: How did it know I was bi before I did? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66472938
3.5C Immersive digital media
To what extent is education moving to a “tri-brid” model that flows between in-person, online and simulated environments? - https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-06-01-with-money-from-facebook-10-colleges-turn-their-campuses-into-metaversities
Conjoined Twins separated with the help of VR - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62378452
Post pregnancy confidence - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/oct/23/post-pregnancy-body-positivity-on-instagram-its-hard-to-find
Damage Tik Tok does to mental health - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/30/tiktok-mental-health-social-media?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
TikTok users in UK to be left with ‘more toxic’ version of app, say campaigners - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/13/tiktok-users-in-uk-to-be-left-with-more-toxic-version-of-app-say-campaigners
‘Better martyrs’: the growing role of women in the far-right movement - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/12/conservative-women-tradwife-republican
AI Tom Hanks selling dentistry? - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/02/tom-hanks-dental-ad-ai-version-fake
Mark Zuckerberg apologises to families US Senate hearing - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68161632
3.5D Digital media dilemmas
About Facebook Technologies - https://about.facebook.com/technologies
Monetising misery in Social Media - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/30/molly-russell-died-while-suffering-negative-effects-of-online-content-rules-coroner
Copyleft definition - https://www.britannica.com/topic/copyleft
More on CopyLeft - https://snyk.io/learn/what-is-copyleft-license/
Did Bruce Willis sell the rights to his face? - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63106024
How easy is it to produce a deepfake? - https://beebom.com/best-deepfake-apps-websites/
Alex Jones and Infowars, can he really say just what he likes? - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/12/alex-jones-sandy-hook-hoax-lawsuit-damages
Tik Tok not filtering its content - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/24/tiktok-election-misinformation-voting-politics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Funding the Ukraine War - is it a new approach? - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/03/a-joke-that-went-out-of-control-crowdfunding-weapons-for-ukraines-war
The rabbit god helping LGBTQI+ people in Taiwan - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/07/how-a-rabbit-god-became-an-icon-for-taiwans-gay-community
Is social media taking us away from our elected representatives - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/06/republican-photo-neo-nazis-congressman-matt-rosendale
Computer games encouraging children to gamble - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65372710
A Vietnamese article on computer game addiction - https://e.vnexpress.net/news/trend/parents-battle-childrens-video-game-addictions-4611396.html#vn_source=Home&vn_campaign=TopStory&vn_medium=Item-1&vn_term=Mobile&vn_aid=1003888
Dont believe that what you read was written by a human - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/14/irish-times-apologises-for-hoax-ai-article-about-womens-use-of-fake-tan
I have decided TikTok is just a really bad idea - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65126056
AI Produced Media - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/19/ai-human-music-pop-drake-kanye-west-the-weeknd
Russian Disinformation in the American Media - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/17/pentagon-leak-suggests-russia-honing-disinformation-drive-report
Banning gambling advertising - https://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2023/jun/15/australians-say-they-hate-gambling-ads-from-now-they-will-no-longer-see-them-on-guardian-australia
- https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2023/jun/15/why-the-guardian-has-decided-to-reject-gambling-advertising
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/15/guardian-bans-all-gambling-advertising
The EU Digital Services Act, Explained - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/25/how-the-eu-digital-services-act-affects-facebook-google-and-others
Biggest disinformation suppliers - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66926080
Sad story - who the hell is into Monkey torture? - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/07/social-media-platforms-to-face-18m-fines-for-publishing-animal-cruelty-content
Media as a force for good for girls in Afghanisatan - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-67017945
Unity lost - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67063855
Stop suggesting children as friends, social media firms told - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67358369
Deepfake stars giving away free stuff - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66993651
when its possible we dont have a free media - https://www.thedrive.com/news/vinfast-critic-detained-interrogated-by-vietnam-police-for-facebook-posts-report
Fake News and Social Media in Macedonia - https://money.cnn.com/interactive/media/the-macedonia-story/
Netflix viewing figures - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67688722
Gambling promotion - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/30/record-revenues-at-uk-gambling-firms-amid-rise-of-online-slot-machines
Blocking nude images to teens - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68093343
Access to a free and fair media - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/17/alabama-power-electric-utility-finance-birmingham-news