Going Loco for the Mobile: How is our media fairing up?

Plastering the world with news, online.
Andrew Nachison –
via: (http://www.innovationsinnewspapers.com/index.php/category/jeff-jarvis/)

“Newspapers in this country are not dying, they are committing suicide.”
‒ Samir “Mr. Magazine” Husni –

Without a doubt, technology is evolving at a faster rate than someone finger typing Google onto their smartphones or tablets. Therefore it leaves us, the future generation, to ask the simple question ‘How has and will our increasing reliance on smartphones and tablets change media?’.

Media, a very broad and sometimes misrepresented term, in this case, is the use of television., newspapers, radio and the internet. According to onmobile, in 2012, there were 1.08 billion smartphones in the world. On average we check out smartphones 150 times a day. This is between calling, texting, using utilities and also social media. With those facts in mind, to 1 in 17 people use a tablet in the world. These are the facts and figures that typical media outlets are forced to fight against each and everyday.

Take a look at this graph.

In a survey conducted by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism, asking 18-29 year olds about their use of media online and physical copiesb
via mashable: http://mashable.com/2011/03/14/online-versus-newspaper-news/

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This is therefore proving that our increasing reliance on smartphones and tablets is changing the way in which we look and take in media nationally and internationally.

How has this reliance on smartphones and tablets changed media you ask?!. Well nowadays newsrooms and newspapers have to up the ante to compete with the internet because it has changed the way a reader can view the news. Newsrooms and newspapers are parts of media that only occur a certain amount of times a day. For example a newspaper is only available once a day and can not update you on that day’s news. This, therefore leaves a space for the online world accessed by a smartphone or tablet, to open up at anytime with an issue, and then for it to then be accessible to the reader at anytime.

Now, how will the reliance of smartphones and tablets changed media in the future. News.com explains that newspapers will be a thing of the past by 2040. Let’s think about a vinyl record, we don’t see many of those around at all. We see people using online outlets such as iTunes and Spotify to provide them with their music. So we have to ask ourselves, is using our smartphones and tablets to access media is it going to push out a good old newspaper, maybe we will have to pull over on the side of the road to get the fast news online instead of the radio, or will it put a newsreader out of a job. The way we are heading all this things are coming towards us at a faster rate then finger typing.

Technolody at our fingertips
via: miniyo73 (Flickr)

Do you believe the reliance on smartphones and tablets has and will change media?

Anchoring the Boats, are we taking in Enough?

Asylum seekers entering Australia

We have all heard it, seen it, and may even know someone involved with it. This it is Asylum seekers. If you don’t know what it means by now, where have you been hiding, but to seek asylum is a person who has left their home country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum in another.

The media adds fuel to the fire on this debate, and are aware of previous Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Tony Abbott wanting to completely ‘Stop the Boats’, but this issue can not just be. As Australian’s we are known to be a very accepting and honourable country. So the questions stands, are we accepting enough refugees into our country?.

Australia is part of a Refugee Convention, among 145 other countries in the world.
Australia has agreed to never return a refugee to a country where he or she has reason to fear persecution. This also includes the humanitarian Program who is accepting of a specific number of people every year who are have humanitarian need or are refugees.

According to The Conversation the amount of refugees taken into different countries, compared to Australia is quite significant: USA (51,500), Canada (12,900), Australia (9,200), Sweden (1,900) and Norway (1,300).

In 2010, Australia was ranked the 69th country

Graph provided by: factsfightback.org.au

As a first world country, we have the proper access, and technology to process more refugees Australia is one of the less populated developed countries out there.

The definition of a refugee should be broadened to make allowance for people who circumstantially have to leave their homes due to destruction, economic issues or because there may be an ongoing threat. ‘In the immediate post-war years, Australia accepted more than 170,000 people with a population less than two fifths of today (Wainwright, 2013)’. This proves that because the number of people welcomed into the country in earlier years was regarded as higher, when Australia did not have the technology or resources it does today, we can physically take in more people than we currently are. It is not illegal to seek asylum, because after all we are a ‘boundless plains to share’.

Do you think that Australia should be encouraged to take in more refugees?

If you would like to read more, or compare and contrast to what you might have heard and the facts here are some relevant sites:
SBS
Refugee Council of Australia

Some other blogs…

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CyberJournalist

Huffington Post

Lifehacker

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