Reflecting on your research from the summer and from the BBC news app, what have you learned about your own media use and how you access the news content?

Reflecting on my summer work and acknowledging what is developing in the world today, we can see masses of progress in how we access media content in todays society. This is due to big media organisations adapting and using social media, apps and news aggregators so that news from all around the world can be accessed on our mobile phones and smart devices just through the click of a button. For example, when smart phones were not invented newspapers were the most common source of reading the news. Now there has now been a notice of a huge decline of the use of newspapers as technology has advanced. The news can now be accessed through the ‘BBC News’ app available for smart phones, so people do not need to buy or read newspapers anymore if they have it to hand whenever they want free of charge. This was a massive step for technology, as it eliminated such a traditional way of getting news to a much simpler one. 

I have the BBC news app yet I don't use it that often as I have another source of the news I find myself using Snapchat to find out the news content. This is because it is one of the apps I find myself on most, and as it only recently brought out news headlines on it you can access I use it very much now. I find it very easy to use and it informs me with the news it knows I am interested in. However, these types of social media sights used so commonly now can have their downsides. Not all of the information they provide is true. Some of it, like magazines and certain newspapers, are exaggerated or made up stories that get portrayed as the truth. Social media also now allows us to upload our own content through social media, blogger, youtube and websites. This also means that a lot of false information can be interpreted, so you have to be careful with what you read through technology and in the media. 

Another way we can see each others news is through citizen journalists. They allows us to capture our own footage of videos, pictures and sounds that can then be spread around the world. One example of this would be the 9/11 twin towers disaster which destroyed so many lives. Footage of this awful event was captured straight from peoples phones or personal cameras but was straight on the news which was then spread around the world. This does show that the media is evolving greatly to inform the whole world about events.

In conclusion, I notice that the media we use and how we can access it has become so much easier and will continue too. It had made it so easy to be able to access and view important parts of the media, and create our own sources to inform others.