Technology and News Production
Production	Distribution	Consumption
– digital audio recorders – digital cameras – software applications (Adobe) -recording studios -laptops -computers -mobile devices – tablet devices – drawing/designing tablet -web applications -word processing software – desktop publishing software – video editing software – photo editing software	– the internet – social media – broadcasts (satellite or terrestrial) – radio broadcasts – videos – posts on a website/blog – emails – advertising – Wi-Fi – IP address – VPN – Cinemas – Live streams – Applications – USBs – Memory sticks – books – music	– phones – televisions – DAB’s – tablets – applications – YouTube -USB – Hard drives – SD cards – VR – The Intenet – Internet of things (IOT) – headphones/earphones – computers – cinemas

Key words associated with New Media

Personalise:

• With new media, you can edit things and change things easily and instantly to everyone.
• However, with old media, you couldn’t change things easily, instead the publisher would have to collate all of the media and then distributed the edited version

Conversation:

• With old Media, people used to engage in conversation and talk to each other, which created a very social atmosphere.
• However, now people are glued to their new technology devices and appear to be fairly anti-social.

Endless:

• With old media, things would have an end and you couldn’t do anything else (ie the end of a book)
• However, with new media, people are able to finish something and endlessly find out more information, such as you could finish a book and then find a forum where people are discussing it.

Live:

• With old media, people couldn’t watch an event in real time and instead had to wait until someone had published it, which could be a few hours or days later.
• However, new media allows you to see events live and on demand.