2. Left and right
east and west
communist and capitalist
elite and mass
professional and amateur
producer and consumer.
3. the limiting fact of geographical and
communicative distance,
the political capacity of states to
enforce communicative control and
cultural isolation,
the robustness of professional and
aesthetic distinctions and hierarchies in
the production of journalism.
4. Dominance/control paradigm
Elite control and dominance
of media and other cultural
institutions produce Elites
„consensus‟ and support for control
status quo
Predictable outcomes (social
stability) based on vertically Masses Media
hierarchical control of support control
information
6. Mainstream
Chaos/competitive
Elites compete with non-elites for
media
Mainstream media
Mainstream media
Mainstream
paradigm
access to and impact on the
globalised public sphere, which
media
Mainstream
media
Mainstream media
constantly evolves, changing with
each iteration of the cycle
Sphere of
Globalised
Globalised
The evolution of the system dissent anddissent
Sphere of
opposition
public
Globalised
public
Sphere of elite
control
Sphere of elite control
cannot be forecast with
and opposition
Globalised
sphere
public
Globalised
Sphere of dissent and
Sphere of
opposition
sphere
public
Sphere of elite control
Sphere of elite
certainty
dissent and of
Sphere
oppositionand
dissent
Globalised
sphere
public
control
Sphere of elite
opposition
Sphere of debate, dissent and
sphere
public
control control
Sphere of elite
sphere
opposition
sphere
Non-elite media
(Wikipedia, blog
gers, socialmedia
Non-elite
(Wikipedia, bloggers,
networking, user
social
generated media media
Non-elite
networking, user
Non-elite
(Wikipedia, content) blog
(Wikipedia, media
generated bloggers, social
content)Non-elite
networking, user generated
gers, social
content)
(Wikipedia,
networking, media (Wikipedia,
bloggers, social
Non-elite
user
generated networking,
bloggers, social
networking, user
user generated content,
content)
generated
WIKILEAKS)
content)
9. Acceleration of information flow
Proliferation of information sources
Dissolution of producer-consumer boundary
Loss of control
Collapse of 20th century analogue media business
models
10. Freedom House 2011
report
90
80
70
60
50 Series 1
40 Series 2
30
20
10
0
Free partly free not free
11. Chaos in the Middle East
The instantaneous nature of
how social media
communicate self-broadcast
ideas, unlimited by
publication deadlines and
broadcast news
slots, explains in part the
speed at which these
revolutions have
unravelled, their almost viral
spread across a region. It
explains too, the often loose
and non-hierarchical
organisation of the protest
movements unconsciously
modelled on the networks of
the web.(Peter
Beaumont, February 25
2011)
12. GM Crops
“Parts of the media
have conducted such
an extraordinary
campaign of
distortion, it is hard to
know where to begin.
Anyone who has dared
to raise even the
smallest hand in protest
is accused of being
either corrupt or a Dr
Strangelove”(Tony
Blair, 1999)
13. Autism in the news
MMR
Health scare or
cause for concern?
14. Tony Blair
When I fought the 1997 election -
just ten years ago – we took an
issue a day. In 2005, we had to
have one for the morning, another
for the afternoon and by the evening
the agenda had already moved on.
You have to respond to stories also
in real time. Frequently the problem
is as much assembling the facts as
giving them. Make a mistake and
you quickly transfer from drama into
crisis.(Tony Blair, June 12 2007)
15. The feral beast
First, scandal or controversy beats
ordinary reporting hands down.
News is rarely news unless it
generates heat as much as or more
than light.
Second, attacking motive is far more
potent than attacking judgement. It
is not enough for someone to make
an error. It has to be venal.
Conspiratorial.
Third, the fear of missing out means
today's media, more than ever
before, hunts in a pack. In these
modes it is like a feral beast, tearing
people and reputations to bits. But
no-one dares miss out.
16. The „sideshow‟ syndrome
Lindsay Tanner, former To maintain an appearance
Cabinet minister, Australia of activity and to feed the
ravenous
media, governments feel
obliged to serve up a
stream of announceables.
The policy merit of these
announcements is largely
irrelevant, as long as
they‟re directed at tackling
a perceived problem that
attracts media coverage…
the purpose of an
announceable is to send a
message, not to solve
problem.
20. Julian Assange
It has been my long term belief
that what advances us as a
civilization is the entirety of our
intellectual record, and the
entirety of our understanding
about what we are going
through. What human
institutions are like, and how
they actually behave. And if we
are to make rational
decisions, in so far as any
decisions can be rational, then
we have to have information
drawn from the real world (From
a debate held at the Frontline
Club in London, July 2 2011).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=_VdFtb4zNXE
