Friday 1 March 2013

David Gauntlett (Theorist) Media on the online age

People in the past would distribute media in different ways. They needed powerful distribution companies to help put media out to the public. They also needed expensive equipment to record visuals and audio. These days there's websites that allow distribution such as youtube and wikipedia and can simply be produced using a mobile phone.

People watching less TV and are going online more
Women spending more time then men online
People consuming politics online (Barack Obama)

Before people didn't get the choice of what they wanted to watch, distributed media is pre-selected. Online people get to see what they want as it's very open for people to use.

On one hand, I agree with Gauntlett's ideas as I feel media distribution has changed as time goes past. Gauntlett stated that in the past people had no choice on what to watch as they have no control on what gets distributed. In recent days people have now use the internet to access programs to their demand. This has attracted many people, cutting down the usage of television.

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