Storify: NBA Free Agency Rumors

Hey everyone!!

This week we needed to make an article on Storify. It is a very cool site to make articles yourself and show twitter feeds and also facebook comments. For my first ever Storify article I wrote about NBA rumors. I specifically focus only on one free agent Andrew Bynum. The reason for picking him is because I am a huge Los Angeles Lakers fan and he was recently apart of there championship team. Although he was traded last season I still thought of him as a Laker.

To read on with these rumors you can view my storify article HERE!!

Summative Blog Post: Twitter or Television?

For the title of my last blog I tried to keep readers thinking. The title is “News Travels Fast! But Whats Faster? Twitter or Television.” Jlucianoo had great comments towards the title and his comment that said “I immediately said that Twitter is faster but if you would have asked what was more accurate my answer would most likely have been television” really stood out. I would have to agree with this comment because although twitter is very quick at delivering news, television will not show it on TV until they 100% know that it is the truth.

Mohamad Rashad Koudsi also brings up great points in his comments when saying that “It (Twitter) is making it possible for people to express what they want and most importantly in a free way which overcomes the controlled and scanned paths that any story would go through to get to the public.” He also explains that he would personally follow a real professional journalist and monitor sources that cover the same topic. I think that is great because like I said earlier in the post professional journalist that are on television will not show the news unless it’s accurate.

This weeks module helped me think about the importance of twitter and what its really used for. It also taught me how to difference twitter from actual facts. Twitter is a great tool for everyday people to tell people your opinions, but in the real world your opinions are separated from the truth. Twitter can be used to disagree with topics that are trending and also agree with them. When using twitter I will only say what is in my mind and not make up news because that’s not my job. I may retweet a report by CNN or CP24 and also news from the NBA, but I wont make it up myself. 

News Travels Fast! But Whats Faster? Twitter or Television?

Growing up in the generation in which media do not only covered on television but also other outlooks such as the Internet. The Internet has brought people many different ways of communicating information to the news. Technology has played an important role as disruptor and enabler in these developments, even if – of course – it has not determined their eventual course. First, the rise of the Internet as a popular medium has led to a substantial increase in available channels for information and entertainment, among other purpose (Bruns and Highfield). Blogs, Twitter, and Facebook are the first steps of journalism these days. When there is a breaking story it is communicated through twitter then evidentially hits the television on the news. Digital media technologies such as Twitter facilitate the instant, online dissemination and reception of short fragments of information from sources outside the formal structures of journalism (Hermida, 2012). The question with Twitter would be “is the good?” I do think that twitter provides new opportunities for everyday posters. It allows the everyday person be the first to break news.

Right now it is the offseason for many big sports such as Hockey, Basketball, and Football. To get the latest news, I follow my favorite journalist that are first to notice when a player is being signed and I think that it twitter is great and provides first hand news. There are many things that twitter and other social media can do for activism in any sense. If someone felt very strongly about an idea and wanted to get more people involved they can use twitter and social media to gain more attention. With the growth of twitter I think that many people will shift there attention from watching news channels such as CNN or BBC and start focusing on twitter to bring people the news quicker. 

References

Hermida, A. (2012). TWEETS AND TRUTH: Journalism as a discipline of collaborative verification. Journalism Practice. 6:5-6, p659-668.

Bruns, A. & T. Highfield. (2012). Blogs, Twitter, and breaking news: The produsage of citizen journalism. pre-publication draft on personal site [Snurb.info]. Published in: Lind, R. A. ed. (2012). Produsing Theory in a Digital World: The Intersection of Audiences and Production. New York: Peter Lang. p15-32.

Podcast

The podcast I recorded is based on a article by Tim Wood a senior writer at bleacher report. The article is about rumours that have happened in the past in sports. I once again talk about basketball as the main points. Picking this article was easy for me because I do not always agree with the rumours surrounding sports. This is due to the lack of consistency and the affects it can have.

It is my first ever podcast so please bare with me on it! There are lots of room for improvement!!





Wood, T. (2010, May 17). Craziest Rumors in Sports. Bleacher Report. Retrieved from http://bleacherreport.com/articles/393219-lebron-james-mom-delonte-west-and-the-20-craziest-rumors-in-sports

Summative Blog Post: Free Music or iTunes?

For this weeks blog I was a little surprised when reading others post that they actually download music of iTunes. With so many different ways for people to get music free why pay? I was also very surprised of Riley’s comment when she said “You may be one of the first people I know of who purchases albums off of Amazon (I'm curious to know why you don't buy the album at HMV or Sunrise).” To answer this question, I use Amazon because it takes 1-2 days to actually get the album. Amazon also offers discounts to repeat customers, which is very useful. I find that with the advancements of online shopping that HMV and Sunrise are very likely to go out of business, it is much easier to earn the discounts from a site that you may purchase more then one item.

I was also surprised that newmediumnewmessage said, “I have just recently discovered how easy it is to illegally download.” Many people do not know websites in where they can download free music and some of the websites are a little bit fishy when you first go on them. These websites have popup, which can scare some people away. I have never heard of someone being charged with downloading online. Though, I have once downloaded a movie off a website when I was younger and got a message in the mail saying I have downloaded a movie that is not out on DVD yet, and it was just a warning from Rogers that I should stop. Also, like Riley said in her post "Being a musician/artist creating a fan base is way more important because those fans will support you by purchasing merchandise or concert tickets."  The amount of money people saves when downloading music or DVD’s for free can go towards people’s education instead towards iTunes. They can even go towards people going to see artist concerts in which they might purchase merchandise.  I find that it is very useful to download illegally and if someone asked me how to download a song online I would gladly show them. 

The Art of Music: To Purchase Rather than Download

When purchasing music I either buy a song on iTunes or buy an album on Amazon. How many people do you think actually do this though? I am a avid fan of downloading my music rather than purchasing it from places like Apple and Amazon. I know that most Athletes listen to music before a game and have always wondered how they get their songs and often find myself asking “Do they get it before the public since its possible they are friends with the artists? Do they download it? Or do they do the right thing and purchase it?

“The battle over online music in the US turned ugly in the summer of 2003 when the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) initiated lawsuits against its own consumers (Condry, 2004)”. Also Burkhart and McCourt (2003) state, “The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) extended intellectual property protection to domains pre- viously overlooked by federal copyright law. When people are downloading music it is technically illegal and with a copyright code record labels can sue the people who “leak” albums and songs. This sometimes scares people into downloading music or videos because they think that if they get caught they can possibly get charged or sued for lots of money.

Purchasing music can be very expensive. On iTunes it costs $1.29 per song and as a student who enjoys listening to music it could be very pricey in the long run. The quality is usually better when you buy a song but if you like burning CD’s for your car or friends downloading makes the music into a MP3 mod is better. It allows you to put more than 19 songs and you can still enjoy the music at a lesser quality. If I could tell people weather to download a song or purchase I would recommend that they download. This practice conflicts with copyright issues because I would be recommending people to break the law.

Overall, I think that if iTunes charged a monthly fee much like Netflixs more people would be welcome to purchasing music online. It would allow consumers to purchase a monthly subscription with songs that they can listen to and keep on there computers for a certain amount of time. 

References 

McCourt, T., P. Burkart. (2003). When Creators, Corporations and Consumers Collide: Napster and the Development of On-line Music Distribution. Media, Culture & Society. 25 (3), pg. 333-350 

Condry, Ian. (2004). Cultures of Music Piracy: An Ethnographic Comparison of the US and Japan. International Journal of Cultural Studies. 7 (3), pg. 343-363  

Sports: They Can Be Remixed Too!!

The short video I show the that sports can be remixed just like movies, television, and music. I specifically focus on the NBA in the short video and show that when one team becomes creative and WINS others will follow to do the same!

I created the clip using Mozilla Popcorn, and took the videos used from YouTube, while the pictures where taken from google. The pictures have direct links to the original posters. 

Here it is!! https://brandonisraelson.makes.org/popcorn/15q3

Hope you enjoy!!

Brandon