Media Video Facts and Regulating the Internet - Ms Wigley

6 Significant Facts  

1. A surge of new technologies and social media innovations is altering the media landscape.

2. Newspapers circulation is down 7 million over the last 25 years.

3. In the last 5 years unique readers of online newspapers are up 30 million.

4. What used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket will now fit inside a blood cell in 25 years – Ray Kurzweil

5. Convergence is everywhere. It’s easier than ever to reach a large audience, but harder than ever to really connect with it.

6. The mobile phone device will be the world’s primary connection tool to the internet in 2020.

1.      Today, you can access almost everything on the internet. Today the internet has not only become a place to find important information but also for communication. This can be an advantage however there are some disadvantages we should consider.  On the internet you can access videos, images, blogs, emails, and make your own social networking profile such as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter which is just examples of the growing social networking on the internet. However this can arouse problems. Today teenagers can access almost anything on the internet without anyone knowing. They can access porn sites and make fake social networking sites, this is a growing situation which is not being regulated well.

2.      Regulating the internet can be a hard process. However the person who has created the post or posted the web page should be checking frequently the source regularly. However this can be hard and can be a problem to regulate with social networking sites.

3.      Ofcom is an independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, however do other counties on the internet have the same type of companies? Also parents can regulate what sites their children visit by setting restrictions on the internet.

4.      Because many people access pages that are not from the UK it can be hard to form an organization that covers many countries can cause problems.

5.      Regulating web pages, videos and image may cost a lot of money and take up a lot of time. Regulating pages should be does regularly on an hourly base depending on how many views the source has.  

6. There are many disadvantages that are associated with internet regulation. It will take energy, time and money. It will be hard having the same regulation rules in different countries and it may be hard to regulate who is accessing the pages and how old the person is. Also many users might not be happy with rules and ideas which can be issues.