MEST 3 EXAM BLOG

1) Go to the   Nieman Lab webpage (part of Harvard university) and watch the video of Clay Shirky presenting to Harvard students .  2) Play the clip AND read along with the transcript below to ensure you are following the argument. You need to watch from the beginning to 29.35 (the end of Shirky's presentation). 3) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this? Clay Shirky claims that journalism is significant more specifically accountability journalism. This type of journalism lures out the accurate and correct new stories. He debates the film "spotlight" which focuses on the editor Marty Baron of the Boston Globe. He instructed a group of journalists to uncover accusations against John Geoghan, a disqualified priest blamed of assaulting more than 80 children. In the talk he said that without expert news coverage we could never have got an answers concerning this case. ...

http://generalpublic.online/2017/10/30/always-on-voice-technology-raises-privacy-concerns/ The CEVA business was accused of listening to constant voice commands made by phones application such as Google voice assistant. This is seen as a violation for the right or privacy with in the community. But it’s on all of a time, durability adult to 8 hours and removal between 5 and 10 percent of a battery.  The CSpotter on CEVA-TeakLite-4 silicon will be demonstrated on Oct 27 during a CEVA Technology Symposium in Taiwan. It supports 33 languages formed on phoneme acoustic models and has optimized both orator eccentric and contingent voice activation. My opinion of this is that its a clear mistreatment for privacy and this needs to 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41801704 A daughter of an Apple engineer has filmed herself exploring the demanded iPhone X and uploaded the video to YouTube, weeks before its launch. The Dad’s bosses weren’t impressed with leak from California headquarters. Just hours after vlogger Brooke Amelia Peterson’s clip went live, it was deleted. The YouTube video was shot on the Apple campus in September when the young woman met her father for lunch. "At the end of the day when you work for Apple, it doesn't matter how good of a person you are, if you break a rule, they just have no tolerance," said Ms Peterson. "Apple really did like my dad. And they let him go. Because he broke a rule," she said. "It was an innocent mistake, and he fully apologises." My opinion on this is that its not a major issue for apple due to the fact the demand for the new Iphone wont drop at all. They probably crossed the line when they fired the father, as th...

The future of newspapers Read  this article from the Economist on the future of newspapers . On your blog, write a paragraph summarising the argument the article makes. Then answer the following questions: The extract describes how newspapers have lost the most to the internet and this is apparent across the USA, Western Europe, and Australia. This is a matter that has been going on for years; though, the failure has intensively increased over the last few years. “The Vanishing Newspaper” by Philip Meyer predicts that by 2043 the newsprint will die in the US. This sort of theory is ambiguous to some; however more youths are turning to the internet for their news and everyday stories. UK’s 15s and 24s say they spend almost 30% less time reading newspapers once they start using the internet. Advertising is another component talked about within the article. Switzerland and the Netherlands newspapers have lost half their classified promotion to the web. The article m...

Twitter workarounds give anyone 280 characters to play with https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/27/twitter-workarounds-280-characters-tweet/ Twitter is currently conducting a trial of a platform that will double its character count—from its default of 140 up to 280. Only a select few will have access to the new feature, but those who don’t may be able to gain access if they’re willing to tweak their browser. Some enterprising users have found several workarounds that will double the tweet character count in creative ways. User  @ErrataRob  posted one of the techniques (via  @dildog ), which involves meddling with the Chrome browser. As you can tell from the thread above, this method requires a bit of legwork. But, there is an easier way. Twitter user  @prof9  tweeted a link to a Tampermonkey script for Chrome that's much easier to set up, and offers the same result: Longer tweets. To get it working, first install  Tampermonkey , and then hea...