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The Guardian view on digital conservation: we must act now

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/13/guardian-view-digital-conservation-we-must-act-now

This article discusses the fact that more care should be taken to preserve history currently being created and history that has already occurred. This is due to the fact "all history, all the economy and all our bureaucracy now live on and in computer records". As a result, despite the continuous sporadic developments in technology there should be more emphasis in improving it for historical purposes so that future generations may be able to enjoy it in a way in which we have.

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'Nearly 50,000' pro-Islamic State Twitter accounts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-31760126

This articles talks about how radical extremist group IS are using social media in order to informally recruit people into their terrorist organisation. A group claiming to support IS Hacked the UC centcom Twitter account as well.There have been 46,000 twitter accounts on behalf of Islamic State, a new case study from the US claims. Most I.S accounts were created in 2014 and towards the end of 2014 around 1,000 IS accounts are being shut down by twitter. 
"Recruitment is not overt on Twitter. Most of that happens on applications like Kik, WhatsApp and Skype, which are peer-to-peer. What they are doing publicly on Twitter is to draw people in."

Identities and the media: feminism online

1) Caroline Criado-Perez: Female Presence on banknotes

Caroline Criado-Perez in a English feminist activist and journalist born in Brazil. She wanted a gain on representation of women on banknotes in 2013. She was successful but people on Twitter gave her some online abuse like "Get back to the kitchen, shut up, F*ck off" Her efforts led to a decision by the bank of England to review the selection process for future bank notes. After that the bank of England announced that Jane Auestin will appear on the £10 note by 2017.

2) Ched Evans

This article from The Telegraph spoke about how a feminist made an online petition against convicted rapist Ched Evans who is a professional footballer who was sent to prison for doing so. This online petition gained many signings with 160,000 in total and 21,000 in 24 hours. This then stopped a deal for Evans signing for Oldham football club as they no longer wanted to sign him after everything that has happened in the media whereas at first they had offered him a long term contract. Similarly the club Evans used to play for Sheffield United had him training at their club but they stopped him from training with them due to them also getting negative media coverage where the local people and fans were going against them.

3)Caitlin Moran

Twitter Silence was a protest made up on Twitter where women were to stay silent on Twitter for a day to show their inability to speak up on Twitter in general without obtaining any sort of abuse. This idea came about from a quote in Jane Austen's book; Northanger Abbey. Due to the abuse on Twitter aimed at the campaign set up by Caroline Criado Perez which was to put up Jane's picture on a banknote. Her fellow feminists 'rallied up' and Caitlin Moran came up with the idea of 'shutting up' on Twitter.

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Mail Online soars past 200m monthly browsers as newspaper sites bounce back

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/20/mail-online-gains-17m-unique-browsers-as-newspaper-sites-bounce-back

The Daily mail online recently went past the threshold of 200 million monthly browsers of their content online. Whether this is at the opportunity cots of less readers of their tangible paper and more of the digital counterpart is debateable. However, this does highlight the fact that news firms adopting digital tactics is beneficial in the long term as proved by this article as their demographic are becoming more and more technology literate.

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Snapchat gets more musical with update adding audio to people's snaps

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/19/snapchat-gets-more-musical-audio-snaps

Fresh from rumours that it is raising fresh funding valuing the company at $19bn, Snapchat has launched a new feature that makes it easier for users to add music to the videos they share using its app.Snapchat can now take a live feed of whatever music or audio is currently playing on a user’s smartphone when they record a video, and use it as the soundtrack when they send the clip to friends or upload it to their “Stories” profile.

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Will.i.am stars in Wall Street Journal's global ad push

The Wall Street Journal has recruited Will.i.am for a global ad campaign urging people to “make time” to read the business title.Other businesspeople to appear in the campaign include Mike McCue, co-founder and chief executive of social magazine app Flipboard; Bill McDermott, chief executive of software company SAP; and Zhang Xin, co-founder and chief executive of property group SOHO China.

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Why print newspapers remain the dominant media power in Britainhttp://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/feb/16/why-print-newspapers-remain-the-dominant-media-power-in-britain

This article supports the argument that print is still the dominant superpower in the media today. This can therefore show and supports the argument that the decline of the newspaper industry may be overstated that what will necessarily occur. As a result, the effect that new and digital media has on the newspaper industry may also be severely overstated.