Introduction to NDM: reading and blog task

1) A media studies teacher was temporarily working as a researcher for year 9 students and wanted to see the difference in their life between at home and at school. This research was done by the way in which the students would use the media and technology. The researcher would also go on a say that students nowadays would keep aspects of their lives hidden from the families and wanted to know the inside towards all of this. Talking about social media, this researcher had acknowledged that there is a division between social media being private and a public space, and that leads to Facebook. For example, the teachers would hate the fact that the young users would be on Facebook due to the fact that it may cause bad tension in the classrooms and could potentially resolve into fights that may take place outside of school.

In the second article, it's talking about a brand new app called Periscope. The article itself talked about what the app is about and who owns it. In addition, the article had been negative to the app throughout the most of the article; it would talk about how it effects companies and how it can also affect the lives of the users who are on Periscope without them even knowing it. For example, it can effect businesses because something could be on paper-view and people can watch it for free since they may have found someone on Periscope who is doing a live recording of it. Therefore, this is where periscope is seen negatively and for which, periscope are trying to find out way that they can improve it so they can block people who may do this; it can lead to copyright and people could potentially get into trouble. 

2) In my opinion, I believe that this A2 A* essay was successful because of the following:

• Strong Introduction on actually answering the question
• Extremely good topic sentences with good examples related to the sentences. For example, if they were talking about statistics, they would back it up by giving an actual statistics number.
• Talked about famous people, e.g. Beyonce, Taylor Swift and Jay Z.
• Finally, he linked his conclusion back to the actual question and gave strong reasons for his view.

3) In my opinion, i strongly believe that digital media has changed everyone's, including my own, lives in many ways. Many years ago, I would either be on Bebo or MSN talking to my peers and being excited as all of this way really new at the time. However, as time is moving on with technology you lose that interest in it being exciting and now, it has become more of a daily routine for a lot of people as you can be on your smartphones surfing the web and chatting to you friends 24/7. I believe that this is becoming more of a negative thing for myself instead of positive because even though it is gradually becoming exciting with different technology coming out, it is still a distraction to school work and also, this technology means that people are less aware of the older media outlets.