Weekly NDM

NewsCorp

Google Hits Back at NewsCorp's claims that it is a platform for piracy

This article is about a letter written by the chief executive of NewsCorp to the EU about how Google are a platform for piracy and that they have an overwhelming amount of power. The responses from Google are from Rachel Whetstone, the senior vice president of Google's global communications.

• Whetstone said that last year Google removed 222m web pages that broke copyright rules, with an average take down time of six hours.
• News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson branded the internet giant a “platform for piracy and the spread of malicious networks”.

I believe that this is an interesting article as it shows what a new digital media institution's response is to a traditional media institution. It shows that although they both have different views of each other and are expressing them publicly, due to the size of these institutions nothing may come out of this.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/sep/25/google-hits-back-news-corp-piracy-claims 

Technology

Children's apps: 'Technology interferes with the story in most apps'

This article is about how apps that are based on children's books alter the original story that is published in the books. It contains the opinion of an author and critic on how the apps don't offer that same interaction between a child and their parents, and that children should be reading books instead of 'jabbing at screens'.

I find this article interesting as it contains the opinion of a traditional media expert and how she thinks that the new and digital media has an impact on children and that they do not gain as much with these developments in media as they would do with books.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/26/childrens-book-apps-technology-story-nicolette-jones