Homework: Daniel Tyler

If I was someone as Powerful as Murdoch, I would use my newspaper to change public opinion of the government, before also using it to organise protests against them. However, I'm not Murdoch, and I wouldn't use my power like that.

Monopoly: the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.

Conglomerate: a thing consisting of a number of different and distinct parts or items that are grouped together.

Multi-national: a company operating in several countries.

Media Tycoon: media baron

Plurality: the number of votes cast for a candidate who receives more than any other but does not receive an absolute majority.

Public service broadcaster: publicly funded broadcasting

The Mythbusters:

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The problem with media ownership is that everyone is only focused on the best way to make money, not caring about the people that's see it or who its focused on. For example, the phone hacking scandal was done simply to get a story to sell to newspapers, but violated their personal lives.

My opinion on social media in society.

My opinion of on social media on society is that its quite bad. Sites like Facebook and other social media sites are taking over people lives. May people are obsessed with posting stuff on Facebook and twitter to the point where they spend 90% of their lives on that specific site. I do however think that there are good sides to having social media in society, one of that positives is that you can communicate with people you wouldn't normally be able to have  a conversation with ; such as someone that may have recently moved to a different country you will be able to talk to them without stupidly high text and call prices if you are on a pay as you go plan. Another good side is that it allows you to see what your friend and family are up to and can keep up to date with their lives without actually conversing with the person however, this could be a downside because it reduces the amount of social interactions you have with people because you can just find everything out via statuses and tweets that said person has post. These are just some of the reasons why my opinion is quite mixed, but i believe that site like Facebook are in general just bad for society as a whole because, it discourages people to actually converse.It also lets you put anything you want about anyone, so there is really no privacy at all. The negatives far out weight the positives of having social media in society.

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I have noticed that i spend a little amount of time but then i revisited the site again for a little while. 

 

When visiting these websites i am usually doing it in my free time, as i believe that if you are having dinner while on the internet then its anti-social and its not a good thing. I think that i sometimes waste my time on certain things like facebook and thing like that but something i go on are for school etc.