My Media Use and how I access the News
Over the holidays, we were tasked with looking at news stories with our "We Media' and Democracy" booklets.
What I've learned about my own usage of news:
I've noticed that I rarely ever go searching for news, and that news I do get is usually from the Google Home app on my phone, which has 'cards' that show me news based on my interests, for example music news to do with bands that I listen to through YouTube frequently. An example of this is an article from 'The Independent' titled "The UK's latest storm is called Brian and Arctic Monkeys fans are delighted" which talks about how one of the preset names for storms next year in the UK is 'Brian' and then links to the Arctic Monkeys song 'Brianstorm', this showed up on my cards as a link to the Independent's website based on the fact I listen to a lot of Arctic Monkeys songs on YouTube, so it connected my interests with my location to bring me news that is relevant to me.
Full article: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/uk-storms-2017-2018-brian-brianstorm-arctic-monkeys-song-a7946541.html
Moreover, I am subscribed to a YouTube channel called ETC Daily, which is a news channel that focusses on technology, film, gaming and politics news, I trust this how as they show both sides of an argument, as well as cross referencing their sources, however they still voice their own opinions. Also, they are an American-based group which means that they cover news from an American citizen's perspective, which is useful in order to gain an insight of that view, however may be biased due to the writer's nationality.
Other than this, I don't really see news from other sources except the BBC news app.
This, however, doesn't mean that there aren't other ways of receiving news, for example, social media sites and apps such as Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat are used by many people to find news sources. A severe downside to using apps like Facebook and Twitter is that any links can be shared incredibly easily, meaning that fake news sources and stories can be shared to lots of people. Therefore, people may end up believing in misinformation and then spread that further in other ways.
The app makes accessing news easy by enabling the user to just tap their screen to get all news reported by the BBC as well as allowing the user to filter what they see down to topics that they are interested in via the "My News" tab. Furthermore, the app sends push notifications to the user's phone when a new story is published that may interest the user, this allows them to keep completely up-to-date with news stories that matter to them throughout the day. The BBC is a trusted and reliable source, due to its public funding the organization tries to remain unbiased in the news that it provides, and takes no political standpoint (left or right wing) in its views.
What I've learned about my own usage of news:
I've noticed that I rarely ever go searching for news, and that news I do get is usually from the Google Home app on my phone, which has 'cards' that show me news based on my interests, for example music news to do with bands that I listen to through YouTube frequently. An example of this is an article from 'The Independent' titled "The UK's latest storm is called Brian and Arctic Monkeys fans are delighted" which talks about how one of the preset names for storms next year in the UK is 'Brian' and then links to the Arctic Monkeys song 'Brianstorm', this showed up on my cards as a link to the Independent's website based on the fact I listen to a lot of Arctic Monkeys songs on YouTube, so it connected my interests with my location to bring me news that is relevant to me.
Full article: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/uk-storms-2017-2018-brian-brianstorm-arctic-monkeys-song-a7946541.html
Moreover, I am subscribed to a YouTube channel called ETC Daily, which is a news channel that focusses on technology, film, gaming and politics news, I trust this how as they show both sides of an argument, as well as cross referencing their sources, however they still voice their own opinions. Also, they are an American-based group which means that they cover news from an American citizen's perspective, which is useful in order to gain an insight of that view, however may be biased due to the writer's nationality.
Other than this, I don't really see news from other sources except the BBC news app.
This, however, doesn't mean that there aren't other ways of receiving news, for example, social media sites and apps such as Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat are used by many people to find news sources. A severe downside to using apps like Facebook and Twitter is that any links can be shared incredibly easily, meaning that fake news sources and stories can be shared to lots of people. Therefore, people may end up believing in misinformation and then spread that further in other ways.
The app makes accessing news easy by enabling the user to just tap their screen to get all news reported by the BBC as well as allowing the user to filter what they see down to topics that they are interested in via the "My News" tab. Furthermore, the app sends push notifications to the user's phone when a new story is published that may interest the user, this allows them to keep completely up-to-date with news stories that matter to them throughout the day. The BBC is a trusted and reliable source, due to its public funding the organization tries to remain unbiased in the news that it provides, and takes no political standpoint (left or right wing) in its views.
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