The impact of new and digital media on newspapers

The impact of New and Digital media such as Tablets on newspapers:

Theories

• Hypodermic needle theory
• Users and gratifications
• news values
• moral panics
• reality TV /polls
• media technology and the digital revolution
• Liberal pluralisation

Issues and Debates

• Media effects
• Immediacy
• Post modernism
• Post-postmodernism is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which are emerging from and reacting to postmodernism.
• Gender and Ethnicity
• Post-industrial society

Key quotes

“The iPad has proven to be a medium in which news can be delivered in a very compelling format “ http://www.thedrum.co.uk/opinion/2012/01/24/scotsman-ipad-app-fails-offer-improvements-over-simple-rss-reader

“There are different theories to explain the steady decline of newspaper circulation in America. Millions of Americans now have access to the Internet or to cable news sources, which provide much quicker and much cheaper information about what is happening in the world.” Bruce Walker   http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/economy/sectors-mainmenu-46/3437-newspaper-circulation-continues-decline

Marxism- ‘the theory of the communist’s capitalist production therefore develops technologies and the combining together of various processes into a social whole’ source- Marxism and media studies (Mike Wayne 2003)

Gramsci and Hegemony- ‘'Consent must be constantly won and rewon, for people's material social experience constantly reminds them of the disadvantages of subordination and thus poses a threat to the dominant class’. Source- aber.ac.uk/media

Post Modernity-‘The media are dominating our culture. We live in the information age, not only because of the internet, but because of TV channels, radio-channels, newspapers, magazines and books’ Article by (Andreas Saugstad)

Globalisation-’we cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.” Kofi Annan (thinkexit.com)

Karl Marx- ‘The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force’.  (Marxism and Culture)

 Liberal Pluralism- ‘There are multiple independent, sometimes competing sources of authority over our lives’