Friday 18 January 2013
Ofcom and Press Complaints Commission // PCC
Ofcom - //( http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/tell-us/ )//
Help Links: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/broadcast-codes/broadcast-code/ // http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/tell-us/tv-and-radio/sponsorship-and-product-placement/
1. Which media does Ofcom handle complaints about?
Ofcom deals with complaints about Television // Radio // Phones // Internet // Pay TV // Postal service.
2. What aspects of a programme broadcast on commercial radio and TV can it consider?
Ofcom can consider all of the complaints received by who ever sent it in. They will access any complaint against the broadcasting code. The code contains rules UK broadcasters must comply with (even the BBC in certain areas).
3. What issues can it consider relating to programmes broadcast by the BBC?
Stated on Ofcom's website, http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/tell-us/tv-and-radio/accuracy-or-bias-on-the-bbc/, Ofcom say that, "If your complaint relates to matters of due impartially, due accuracy, bias or commercial references in BBC Programming, please make a complaint directly to the BBC.
The BBC Trust regulates these areas rather than Ofcom. The website says that the Ofcom Broadcasting Code contains rules relating to such matters on commercial services, but under the terms of the Communications Act the BBC is not licenced by Ofcom in the same way as the commerical broadcasters, and to reflect this situation a Memorandum of Understanding exists between Ofcom and the BBC Trust. So the BBC is ultimately accountable to the BBC Trust with regard to these areas. The BBC has a formal complaints process and complaints should be escalated with them in the first instance, as outlined in the BBC's complaints handling procedures on its website.
4. What issues can it consider relating to sponsorship?
5. What sanctions can it impose on media institutions?
6. What is not within its remit?
Press Complaints Commission
1. In 2012, what proportion of complaints made to the PCC were about accuracy in reporting?
2. What proportion of complaints were related to intrusion into privacy?
3. Who is the code drawn up by?
4. How do the PCC justify their self-regulation of their industry?
5. How is the PCC funded?
6. List the 16 main headings of the Code of Practice of the PCC.
To be Finished....
Play.com Closing
Play.com Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-20953357
The following story is that in the news this week, Jersey retailer Play.com closes direct retail business from March. Play.com is to shut down its retail business to become a marketplace-only business. Items sold were sold at a price of £15 or less to the UK VAT-free, this is because the Jersey based firm blamed the move on the ending of Low Value Consignment Relief. This has resulted in all of the 147 staff from the Jersey offices and 67 of the staff from the Cambridge and Bristol offices being made redundant as a result of the closure. Play.com will now become more like a shopping mall, no longer selling directly to customers. The LVCR (Low Value Consignment Relief) loophole was closed by the UK government in April 2012.
In a statment made by Play.com they said, "Moving forward we are intending to focus exclusively on our successful marketplace, which is our main business area, and to phase out the direct - retail part of our business." The changes, confirmed by a spokesperson, said that the changes are meant completely pulling out of Jersey, but about 200 staff would be left in a restructured company based in Cambridge. In total about 600 people have lost their jobs in the island because of the end of the LVCR, said Jersey's economic development minister, Senator Alan Maclean. He also said, "I'm saddened, this is a Jersey business, set up in the island that did extraordinarily well, that became a global brand. We will work with other businesses and enterpreneurs to help them develop the next Play.com." He said the government would do all it could to help and support those who were out of work because of this. 'Another hammer blow' referred to the island's economy by David Warr, president of Jersey's chamber of commerce. David stated, "That's a significant increase in the number of people unemployed... and obviously that should be a concern to everyone. I think we are going to have to work very hard to find these people new places to work."
Play.com was taken over by Japanese e-commerce operator Rakuten in September of 2011. Rakuten paid £25M // $39.3M // 28.6M Euros for Play.com, and at the time of purchase it had 14M registered users and was one of the largest online retailers in the United Kingdom.
The following story is that in the news this week, Jersey retailer Play.com closes direct retail business from March. Play.com is to shut down its retail business to become a marketplace-only business. Items sold were sold at a price of £15 or less to the UK VAT-free, this is because the Jersey based firm blamed the move on the ending of Low Value Consignment Relief. This has resulted in all of the 147 staff from the Jersey offices and 67 of the staff from the Cambridge and Bristol offices being made redundant as a result of the closure. Play.com will now become more like a shopping mall, no longer selling directly to customers. The LVCR (Low Value Consignment Relief) loophole was closed by the UK government in April 2012.
In a statment made by Play.com they said, "Moving forward we are intending to focus exclusively on our successful marketplace, which is our main business area, and to phase out the direct - retail part of our business." The changes, confirmed by a spokesperson, said that the changes are meant completely pulling out of Jersey, but about 200 staff would be left in a restructured company based in Cambridge. In total about 600 people have lost their jobs in the island because of the end of the LVCR, said Jersey's economic development minister, Senator Alan Maclean. He also said, "I'm saddened, this is a Jersey business, set up in the island that did extraordinarily well, that became a global brand. We will work with other businesses and enterpreneurs to help them develop the next Play.com." He said the government would do all it could to help and support those who were out of work because of this. 'Another hammer blow' referred to the island's economy by David Warr, president of Jersey's chamber of commerce. David stated, "That's a significant increase in the number of people unemployed... and obviously that should be a concern to everyone. I think we are going to have to work very hard to find these people new places to work."
Play.com was taken over by Japanese e-commerce operator Rakuten in September of 2011. Rakuten paid £25M // $39.3M // 28.6M Euros for Play.com, and at the time of purchase it had 14M registered users and was one of the largest online retailers in the United Kingdom.
Thursday 17 January 2013
HMV and Blockbuster Going Into Administration
Thursday, 17/01/2013 - In the news this week is the news that both HMV stores and Blockbuster stores have both gone into administration. HMV have suspended purchases online forcing the administrators to close down their website hmv.com until further notice. Dispite Blockbusters also going into administration their website is up and running so therefore customers can still purchase items online for the time being.
Blockbuster:
With Blockbuster going into administration this week they have put almost 4000 jobs at risk because of recent events. The reason for Blockbuster going into administration is due to the rise in Digital Distribution Services such as Netflix. Netflix and Blockbuster are the same, attracting the same audiences. But Netflix appeals to the more niche market whereas Blockbuster only has a limited amount of shelf space, Netflix doesn't. This ties in with Chris Anderson's Long Tail Theory. Netflix's customers can get instant access to any film on the market instantly for a £5.99 a month subscription. Blockbuster members would have to commute to a Blockbuster store which takes longer on the other hand Netflix subsribers are attracting more people because of it's instant service which can be used from the comfort of your own home.
HMV:
HMV is the last major high street music chain left. And it has currently this week gone into administraion. This is bad and disappointing news which again threatens the jobs of thousands of people across and the last remaining major high street music chain is on the verge of exstintion. Although the fact that HMV has gone into admin doesn't come as much as a shock, as similar stores such as Zavvi and Virgin Megastores have had the same issues and now do not exist. These shops are where most people bought their very first albums from here. I bought my first album from Zavvi in 2007 and the album was Infinity on High by Fall Out Boy, and now it does not exist. Some people will have never heard of Zavvi and it was one of the major music chains on the high street at the time. All of this is due to the massive rise in digital media services such as iTunes, where music lovers can pay a very same amount for albums and individual songs instantly.
Friday 11 January 2013
The Long Tail (2006)
The Long Tail is one of three main theories I will be using within Media In The Online Age prep. The Long Tail which was created in 2006 by Chris Anderson and his theory states that the Pre - Broadband Internet era highstreet stores would have to focus on selling the new/current/popular films of the time in order to fulfil their profit margin. But by doing this the store were it is being sold only has a limited amount of shelf space and warehouse space in order to stock these films. And by doing this and these stores stocking the new/current/popular films for consumers to buy the niche market of products would not be stocked in the same capacity as the new/current/popular films of the present day or even go as far to not be stocked at all, meaning that the consumers couldn't purchase/rent the films of their choosing. Chris Anderson's Long Tail Theory states that due to the Post/Present - Broadband Internet websites such as Play.com, Netflix and Amazon.com where able to stream the niche products digitally meaning that they are stocked to the online retailers and do not have any limitations on shelf space in a store like Blockbusters or HMV. The sales of the niche market products added together enabled will equal or overtake the profit of highstreet stores sales.
The Long Tail theory can be applied to the music industry to ,were highstreet stores like Zavvi and Virgin used to sell music as CDs and albums theses stores are now existinct and only had limited shelf space for the niche market products. All music is downloaded and streamed online through iTunes. The benefit of iTunes is that almost every artist can be found and their music purchased and downloaded. Benefiting the niche market and making a profit to.
Below shows a diagram of the Long Tail and the video created by Chris Anderson and his theory of the Long Tail.
The Long Tail theory can be applied to the music industry to ,were highstreet stores like Zavvi and Virgin used to sell music as CDs and albums theses stores are now existinct and only had limited shelf space for the niche market products. All music is downloaded and streamed online through iTunes. The benefit of iTunes is that almost every artist can be found and their music purchased and downloaded. Benefiting the niche market and making a profit to.
Below shows a diagram of the Long Tail and the video created by Chris Anderson and his theory of the Long Tail.
The long Tail is the red line represents all products including the niche market which will continue and not run out and is used digitally wereas the blue line can be represented as the store Blockbuster which has just gone into administration and has limited shelf space so are not able to stock the niche products.
Amazon going digital
Write a case study on each story saying what you've found out and link it to media and the online age. In as much detail as possible.
BBC News Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20972027
Amazon Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57563243-93/amazon-lets-rip-with-autorip-music-service/
Amazon has introduced a new service to users known as AutoRip. But AutoRip is only available in the United States of America and it will automatically keep digital copies of eligable CDs in the customer's cloud storage account. To name a few artists who have digital copies available for AutoRip are Adele and Pink Floyd to name two artists, plus many more. These copies are free to the customers. With AutoRip, customers of Amazon will be able to gain access to their music through Amazon's Cloud Player on the Internet via Tablets, Android, iPhone and Smartphone Apps. So far there are 50,000 CDs in the Amazon catalogue available for AutoRip. AutoRip is trying to steal some of the thunder of Apple in the music business. By having a similar software to them they are now competing with Apple in the Onine Age. When customers have bought a physical copy of a CD from Amazon they will also be able to listen to the digital copies of them which are automatically stored to their Amazon Cloud Account.
The catalogue has been formed with albums and artists which have proved to be the most popular over the last 15 years with Amazon customers. To name a few in the catalogue, "Thriller" by Michael Jackson, "21" by Adele and "Dark Side Of The Moon" by Pink Floyd. For any existing customer who has bought a CD from Amazon the last 15 years since 1998 they will be able to recieve a free MP3 Copy of that CD. Steve Boom, the Head of Digital Music at Amazon said in a statement that, "When we picked those 50,000 titles we focused on having substantial majority of our physical CD sales covered."
In the long run of things Amazon Cloud Player will allow the users of this potentially to build up a digital libary of their music and having a collection of songs and artists they enjoy listening to. And before this service users would have to 'RIP' their own CDs in order to get digital copies, now it is instant. This is to compete with rivals, Apple iTunes who offer the same service.
BBC News Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20972027
Amazon Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57563243-93/amazon-lets-rip-with-autorip-music-service/
Amazon has introduced a new service to users known as AutoRip. But AutoRip is only available in the United States of America and it will automatically keep digital copies of eligable CDs in the customer's cloud storage account. To name a few artists who have digital copies available for AutoRip are Adele and Pink Floyd to name two artists, plus many more. These copies are free to the customers. With AutoRip, customers of Amazon will be able to gain access to their music through Amazon's Cloud Player on the Internet via Tablets, Android, iPhone and Smartphone Apps. So far there are 50,000 CDs in the Amazon catalogue available for AutoRip. AutoRip is trying to steal some of the thunder of Apple in the music business. By having a similar software to them they are now competing with Apple in the Onine Age. When customers have bought a physical copy of a CD from Amazon they will also be able to listen to the digital copies of them which are automatically stored to their Amazon Cloud Account.
The catalogue has been formed with albums and artists which have proved to be the most popular over the last 15 years with Amazon customers. To name a few in the catalogue, "Thriller" by Michael Jackson, "21" by Adele and "Dark Side Of The Moon" by Pink Floyd. For any existing customer who has bought a CD from Amazon the last 15 years since 1998 they will be able to recieve a free MP3 Copy of that CD. Steve Boom, the Head of Digital Music at Amazon said in a statement that, "When we picked those 50,000 titles we focused on having substantial majority of our physical CD sales covered."
In the long run of things Amazon Cloud Player will allow the users of this potentially to build up a digital libary of their music and having a collection of songs and artists they enjoy listening to. And before this service users would have to 'RIP' their own CDs in order to get digital copies, now it is instant. This is to compete with rivals, Apple iTunes who offer the same service.
Internet Meme
An Internet Meme is a concept that spreads via the Internet. An Internet Meme can be found in the form of an image, video, hyperlink, hashtag or a website. An Internet Meme maybe just a word or phrase which occasionally intentionally misspell. For example words like, more will be mispelt to spell 'moar' or the will be mispelt like 'teh'. These words or phrases create small movements which spread virally from person to person through websites, blogs, emails and social media such as Twitter. Memes like these often relate to existing Internet cultures and Internet subcultures. These are often based on websites such as Tumblr, Instergram and including many others.
An Internet Meme may stay the same or they can evole over time, this can happen by chance or through commentary, parody, imitations or by incorporating news accounts about itself. Some Interent Memes can gain world-wide popularity within a few days of being released. They are usually formed by or through, social interaction, pop culture or some situations that people find themselves in. Here is an example of an Internet Meme:
This Internet Meme has been created by using an image of the character 'Sheldon Cooper' from the television series 'The Big Bang Theory'. The Internet Meme is simply asking a rhetorical question, 'Why so serious?' This has been asked because of the a massive smile on his face. The Meme has been created for a comedy effect and also so that it is memorable.
An Internet Meme may stay the same or they can evole over time, this can happen by chance or through commentary, parody, imitations or by incorporating news accounts about itself. Some Interent Memes can gain world-wide popularity within a few days of being released. They are usually formed by or through, social interaction, pop culture or some situations that people find themselves in. Here is an example of an Internet Meme:
This Internet Meme has been created by using an image of the character 'Sheldon Cooper' from the television series 'The Big Bang Theory'. The Internet Meme is simply asking a rhetorical question, 'Why so serious?' This has been asked because of the a massive smile on his face. The Meme has been created for a comedy effect and also so that it is memorable.
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