Google Amp will make reading the news faster, but can it keep the web open?

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/24/google-amp-will-make-reading-the-news-faster-but-can-it-keep-the-web-open

Accelerated Mobile Pages is designed to save readers seconds and make money for publishers online where slow-loading sites can make all the difference. This article is explaining the difference Google is doing with there HTM,L system. This would be changing the web service as to making it quicker and user friendly. This is to save the readers alot of time as to be faster and to actually be clear with the browsing sites. Eliminating those few seconds of delay is important because they can make the difference between someone reading an article and seeing an ad alongside it  and simply abandoning it. Research firm Forrester claims 40% of people will not bother with a shopping website if it takes more than three seconds to load, and that’s when they are looking at something they want to buy.

1. The real test for Google, however, will be whether Amp keeps people on the web, where people use Google search to find what they want, rather than abandoning it in favour of the “walled gardens” of its competitors, chief among them Facebook.

2. Facebook has its own fast lane for news content, Instant Articles, which takes a feed from publishers and turns them into stripped-down pages that also load more quickly. It has two major advantages: it lives inside the world’s largest social network, and, for the moment at least, ad blockers can’t do anything about the ads.

3. Google has built Amp along open principles because it needs the open web to make money. For publishers, that has meant a very different partner to work with. For most consumers on their phones, all that will matter is those few precious seconds saved.

This overall would be making the web browsing experience be better for users. It would be making more profit because of how fast the loading will be on the phones. Google is going into there own way to bring out fast processor for web pages shows the innovation to bring news and information quicker. Those delays are also helping drive the adoption of ad blockers, which on mobile devices can save consumers both time and their data allowance by stopping pages downloading the ads and tracking code that comes with them.Google claims that Amp pages load four times faster and use 10 times less data, and early tests by some publishers suggest it is having an impact.

Trinity Mirror regionals boost web traffic by nearly a quarter

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/24/trinity-mirrors-regionals-boost-web-traffic-by-nearly-a-quarter

The article explains Trinity Mirror’s network of regional newspapers saw a 24% surge in daily browser numbers to 2.4 million, as users flocked to flagship sites such as the Liverpool Echo, Wales Online and Manchester Evening New. Liverpool Echo soared by more than 30% and Manchester Evening News and Wales Online gained more than 20% in the second half of 2015. This artickle is explaining that the website went up in the year. This would be showing the benefit of getting this newspaper company online so that the local area can use it. This was in the last 6 months that it was boosting up and came with the statement of saying “Focus on digital became further embedded in our regional newsrooms in 2015,” said David Higgerson, digital publishing director at Trinity Mirror Regionals. “Our journalists live by analytics, identifying what readers want to read and working hard to keep them coming back by producing content that drive a locally engaged audience. Examples of this include the audience spikes during the Manchester gangland disputes, Hillsborough inquest in Liverpool and wild weather across the north in December.” They feel encouraged by the boost and hope to make more progress.

1. There were strong boosts in web traffic for the Manchester Evening News, which increased its daily browser numbers by 25% to 693,315; the Liverpool Echo, up by 31.5% to 555,676; Wales Online, which rose by 26.2% to 327,000; and the Birmingham Mail, which increased by 17% to 230,651.

2. Johnston Press, the owner of titles including the Yorkshire Post and the Scotsman, saw regional website traffic rise by 7% to 1.04 million average daily browsers in the period.

3. Local World, which was acquired by Trinity Mirror last year, increased daily browsers across its website network by 2.7% to 1,262,144.

In my opinion i believe this is good because it gives the information to the audience and it is also for a big part out of London which people would want to check online as for example this is a problem for people as to not having any local news in area big as Manchester and Liverpool. This is a good boost and hopefully it will rise and maybe the newspaper industry for this will go down as to people mostly using technology.

NDM story index

September:

1.13/09/15 Apple iPhone 6S and 6S Plus: faster processors, better cameras, 3D Touch

2.13/09/15 Apple wants the Apple TV to be a games console. But can it be trusted?

3. 24/09/15 US government hack stole fingerprints of 5.6 million federal employees

4. 24/09/15 Facebook joins YouTube in showing 360-degree videos – including Star Wars

October:
5. 1/10/15 Richard Desmond sparks tabloid price war by halving cost of Star editions

6. 1/10/15 Deezer to stream TalkSport's Premier League and FA Cup commentaries

7. 8/10/15 BBC defends right to make shows such as Strictly Come Dancing

8. 8/10/15 Rupert Murdoch implies Obama is not 'real black president' in tweet praising Ben Carson

9. 16/10/15 Female technology journalists report abuse is still the name of the game

10. 16/10/15 Sky Sports blocks BT from expanding international rugby with five-year deal

11. 22/10/15 James Murdoch reveals Fox planning new bid for full control of Sky

12. 22/10/15 Sun website traffic slips by 14%

November:
13. 6/11/15 BBC Store offers chance to buy and download episodes of classic shows

14. 6/11/15 BBC says public back its online journalism even if it hurts papers

15. 6/11/15 News UK chief refuses to rule out scrapping Times paywall in future

16. 6/11/15 Twitter is replacing favourites with likes – but does anyone heart it?

17. 12/11/15 Why the BBC is worth saving

18. 12/11/15 The Sun jumps the gun with claims of London Spy sex 'row'

19. 19/11/15 BBC to cut entertainment and comedy but plans new Saturday night shows

20. 19/11/15 Yes the BBC has to make cuts, but why always sport?

21. 26/11/15 Daily Mail accused of paying €50,000 for CCTV video of Paris attack

22. 26/11/15 Digital Spy hires ex-Heat editor in battle with BuzzFeed and Mashable

December:
23. 4/12/15 BBC prepares to make News at Ten longer

24. 4/12/15 YouTube tipped to strike licensing deals for TV shows and films

25. 10/12/15 BBC threatens to suspend journalist over criticism of Tyson Fury on Spoty

26. 10/12/15 The Independent’s blog site hit by ransomware attack

January:
27. 3/01/16 WhatsApp blocked in Brazil for 48 hours by court

28. 3/01/16  Has social media ruined the web?

29. 7/01/16 Netflix announces it will launch in 130 more countries

30. 7/01/16 BBC to release missing Dad’s Army episode as an animation

31. 7/01/16 Why Twitter would be right to expand to 10,000 characters – in 10,000 characters

32. 7/01/16 Netflix, Spotify and Apple power UK entertainment revenue to record £6.1bn

33. 14/01/16 Top Gear relaunch faces potential clash with new ITV motoring show

34. 14/01/16 BBC risks excluding viewers by prioritising online content

35. 21/01/16  Daily Mail takes full control of Australian website

36. 21/01/16 The Sun drops standalone politics site

37. 28/01/16 Daily Mail website's ad revenues surge as paper announces price hike

38. 28/01/16 BuzzFeed faces $11m defamation lawsuit from viral news agency

February:
39. 3/02.16  Ex-Channel 4 chairman says BBC licence fee is an 'anomaly'

40. 3/02/16 The Intercept admits reporter fabricated stories and quotes

41. 22/02/16  Facebook apologises for blocking Viz magazine's page

42. 22/02/16 Daily Mirror publisher to launch 20p newspaper New Day

43. 22/02/16 Block ads? That only makes you more attractive to advertisers

44. 22/02/16 Sun website traffic up by more than 25%

NDM news index

1) Institution: the impact of Google on the newspaper industry
2) Audience and Institution: how news consumption has changed
3) The future of newspapers: Build The Wall analysis
4) The decline of newspapers: the effect of online technology
5) Citizen journalism: Media Magazine article and questions
6) News Values: theory and updating them for digital media landscape
7) Marxism & Pluralism: Media Magazine article and questions
8) Media Conference: notes from speakers
9) Marxism and Pluralism: views and values question
10) NDM Section B essay on blog - consumption and production question
11) Marxism and Pluralism: Alain de Botton on the news - lecture and questions
12) Globalisation: questions and blog task
13) Globalisation: Media Magazine - Google Glass, techno-panics and data mining
14) News on the Tweet report and questions
15) Audience and Institution article and questions
16) Institution case study: NDM and News Corporation

17)Identities and the Media: Reading the riots

18)Identities: Post-colonial theory & blog tasks

19)Post-colonialism: Edward Said blog task

20) Identities and the Media: Feminism
21) Feminism: blog task

22) Class research task

23) Identities and Film: blog task
24) Collective identity: blog task

Identities and Film: blog task

1) Read Media Factsheet 142: Identity and Film.

2) Complete the Twenty Statements Test yourself. This means answering the question ‘Who am I?’ 20 times with 20 different answers. What do they say about your identity? Write the 20 answers in full on your blog.

Who am i? I am a xbox gamer
Who am i? I am a comic nerd
Who am i? I am a student
Who am i? I am a male
Who am i? I am a lazy person
Who am i? I am a Arsenal fan
Who am i? I am Batman
Who am i? I am going to try youtubing one day
Who am i? I am a helper
Who am i? I am a patient person
Who am i? I am studying media
Who am i? I am studying applied business
Who am i? I am going to university in the future
Who am i? I am good at air hockey 
Who am i? I am a music fan of anything 
Who am i? I am going to be 18 in June 
Who am i? I am a caring person
Who am i? I am a understanding person
Who am i? I am in year 13
Who am i? I am forgiving 

3) Classify your answers into the categories listed  on the Factsheet: Social groups, ideological beliefs, interests etc.

Social and self evaluation : I am a student, I am a male, I am studying media, i am studying applied business, i am in year 13, i am going to be 18 in June, I am a caring person, i am a helper, i am a understanding person and i am a forgiving person.

Interests: I am a arsenal fan, i am a xbox gamer, i am a comic nerd, i am batman and i am a music fan.

Ambitions: I am going to university, i am batman and i am going to try youtubing one day

4) Go back to your favourite film (as identified in the lesson). What does this choice of film say about your identity? Are there any identities within the film (e.g. certain characters) that particularly resonated with your values and beliefs?

My favourite film is Groundhog day with Bill Murray as to the reason of how his belief is to be selfish and only help himself where he starts repeating the day he becomes selfless and falls in love over and over again. The film shows that i like to see people become better and i would want to be a hero like him and have the chance to change like that. This film shows that society can change and a simple selfish man can.

5) Watch the trailers for the five films highlighted as examples of gay/lesbian representation in mainstream film. How are LGBT identities constructed in the trailers and how are audiences encouraged to respond to these representations?

Wilde the story of Oscar Wilde and the realization of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas. The concept of fatherhood makes it harder to be accepted to be a gay.

Philadelphia Fearing it would compromise his career, lawyer Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) hides his homosexuality and HIV status at a powerful Philadelphia law firm. But his secret is exposed when a colleague spots the illness's telltale lesions. 

The Wedding Banquet The Wedding Banquet is a 1993 film about a gay Taiwanese immigrant man who marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card. 

The Kids Are Alright Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore) are a married lesbian couple living in the Los Angeles area. 

Pride (2014) London-based gays and lesbians lend their support to striking coal miners in 1984 Wales.

Collective identity: blog task

1) Read the article and summarise each section in one sentence, starting with the section 'Who are you?'

Explains the different of who are, who we want to be and who we want to be seen as the exmaples of media is influencing us all.

Who are you section is the idea of digital media and out identities to be fixed and knwon.

From citizen to consumer explain how and when the idea is constructed identities came into society.

The rise of the individual explains  how we are different with different factors as to how we act to people in a individual way.

Branding and life style is how brands and us are associated and how we take there products to individually show us.

2) List five brands you are happy to be associated with and explain how they reflect your sense of identity.
Samsung
Microsoft
Nike
Addidas
Sony 

They all reflect to me as to being a teenager and also for being modern it shows i am a mainstream person and shows that like to associated with technology.
 
3) Do you agree with the view that modern media is all about 'style over substance'? What does this expression mean?

 I agree as people only care mostly about the presentation then the information being shown in society and how modern media is taken as people most want videos now.

4) Explain Baudrillard's theory of 'media saturation' in one paragraph. You may need to research it online to find out more.

reality we live in is not actual reality and is actually constructed by the media to make us think that it is reality. The term hyper-real is used to explain this. Essentially the media bombards us with various advertisements and other things to make us live the reality constructed by the elites.

5) Is your presence on social media an accurate reflection of who you are? Have you ever added or removed a picture from a social media site purely because of what it says about the type of person you are?


My presence on social media is not really who i am i believe that when i do communicate i may be shown boring or just plain but really i like to do more. As a person i believe that i like to show what i do and express my love to film and comics.

6) What is your opinion on 'data mining'? Are you happy for companies to sell you products based on your social media presence and online search terms? Is this an invasion of privacy?

I think its a good idea if it thinks you will like this products because of searches you have made then it should be alright maybe its something the person was looking for and companies want to sell us there product which will suit a person so they dont keep giving random products. 

Sun website traffic up by more than 25%

 http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/18/sun-website-traffic-news-uk-abcs

 The Sun saw its web traffic soar by more than 25% in January, a welcome recovery after it lost audience in the previous month. Its website recorded a 5% month-on-month fall in average daily web browsers in December, despite dropping its paywall fully for the first time on 30 November. News UK chiefs brushed off the decline, blaming it on issues including “certain apps” being turned off in the transition to free access, and a seasonal lull in fantasy football game Dream Team.

1. Mail Online 14,759,451 (+11.96%)
theguardian.com 8,764,814 (+11.69%)
Telegraph 4,611,564 (+14.19%)
Mirror Group Nationals 4,822,666 (+20.74%)
The Independent 3,331,403 (+19.14%)
The Sun 1,909,955 (+25.19%)
Metro 1,418,152 (+26.93%)
Express.co.uk 1,399,663 (+31.38%)
Dailystar.co.uk 901,334 (+51.68%)

2. Mail Online grew by almost 12%, theguardian.com rose 11.70%, Telegraph.co.uk surged by 14.19%, the Mirror jumped by 20.74% and theindependent.co.uk saw browser numbers rise by 19.14%.

3.  dailystar.co.uk saw huge growth of 51.68% month on month in January, albeit from its base as the smallest of the national newspaper websites.

 Newspapers industries have gone up in stats and i believe that this is good because it means that there wont be a decline that was big before. It shows the adapting industries are all coming up and it would mean that The Sun  paywall going only had a small decrease but then went back up after the month and will come up with better ideas to make the percentage of readers.