PSN Now Has 70M Monthly Active Users; PS Plus Hits 26.4M Members #75

PSN Now Has 70M Monthly Active Users; PS Plus Hits 26.4M Members

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/psn-now-has-70m-monthly-active-users-ps-plus-hits-/1100-6450250/

This article talks about The PlayStation Network now has 70 million monthly "active" users, Sony has disclosed. Sony revealed the new figure as part of its latest Corporate Strategy Meeting for FY2017, which was released today [PDF]. A slide (below) shows the 70 million number but does not mention how Sony defines what it means to be "active" or when the number was reached. It likely covers at leastPlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita.

I believe that as a result of new and digital media the gaming industry has thrived with sony taking advantage of these technological advances. Paid subscriptions ensure that sony profit from people being able to connect online despite previously being free. This could potentially be to compete with the cheaper computer gaming services and other gaming insitutions.

Up to 70 News Corp Australia photographers made redundant #74

Up to 70 News Corp Australia photographers made redundant

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/15/up-to-70-news-corp-australia-photographers-made-redundant

This article talks about how up to 70 staff Up to 70 (staff) photographers from News Corp Australia titles have been informed that their positions have been made redundant. This comes as Rupert Murdoch's Australian papers have embraced an outsourcing model. This new one involves to a greater degree a 'cross breed display, comprising of a centre group of photographic pros, supplemented by independent and organisation ability.' Fairfax Media, another Australian media organisation, has additionally stepped up with regards to cut expenses by cutting 125 columnists on both the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age daily papers. News Corp's endeavours to cut expenses are connected all the more so with its printed daily papers, which purportedly draw in only a small amount of the publicising income that they once did.

I believe that Redundancies in customary media associations are only a reality of what's a dying medium today. Individuals prepared in ranges like photography and only news-casting when all is said in done are presently ending up to be put out of their occupations for the basic reality that e-media has assumed control. It'll be intriguing to see regardless of whether this prompts a decrease in the nature of news stories throughout the following couple of years.

Regulation of election campaigning via social media can be improved #73

Regulation of election campaigning via social media can be improved

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/16/regulation-of-election-campaigning-via-social-media-can-be-improved

This article talks about 'Genius' Europe campaigner Gina Miller is actualizing Facebook's publicizing in focusing on voters in both Labor and Conservative seats. Her battle gathering, Best for Britain, is doing this through conveying diverse messages to various voters in various seats. This is a piece of what is thought to be a 'computerized ground war' that is being battled by both of the principle parties via web-based networking media. Data chief, Elizabeth Denham, on Wednesday seventeenth propelled an investigation into the work on notice imagine a scenario where parties sent politically-charged data to individuals in light of their individual information it could be illegal. This isn't really in recommendation that Miller's battle is doing this, however her crusade involves distinctive advertisements being sent to various gatherings.

I believe that Gina Miller's usage of new and digital media to target advertising is a foresight into what we're more likely than not going to be seeing in terms of political campaigning in the future. People/institutions will implement social media which acts as fundamentally more effective advertising in order to mobilise votes for things like elections and referendums.

STAFFORDSHIRE BECOMES FIRST UK UNIVERSITY TO OFFER A DEGREE IN ESPORTS #72

STAFFORDSHIRE BECOMES FIRST UK UNIVERSITY TO OFFER A DEGREE IN ESPORTS

http://www.esports-news.co.uk/2017/05/18/staffordshire-university-esports-degree/

This article talks about how Staffordshire University has presented the three-year course, which incorporates arranging your own business esports occasion, throwing, PR, advertising, finding out about the specialized/generation angles and making strategies for success for your own particular esports organization.  Understudies will likewise 'investigate the way of life of esports, its gathering of people, classifications and fanbase'.  To get on the course, understudies will require 112 UCAS focuses (BBC A-levels or a DMM BTEC).  The course guarantees to give members 'a chance to contend in occasions in the UK and abroad's and take one of six grant openings worth £2,000 to subsidize their vocation in esports.  Staffordshire University - which as of now offers amusements outline and improvement courses - says it will have an 'a devoted Esports Lab and Pro Gamer preparing office' with all the most recent industry standard programming and equipment.

I believe that this shows how new technology has forced older more traditional institutions to adapt to making peoples life choices more in-tune with what the world is like today. The growth of esports means prize pots for each event exceed millions of pounds and thousands of more people are becoming more involved so it's fair that a uni has adapted and made this a course. 

Fake news or not, the future belongs to Facebook #71

Fake news or not, the future belongs to Facebook

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/14/fake-news-or-not-future-belongs-to-facebook

This article talks about The coming of Trump, moreover, has turned fake news into a litany of media lousiness. Fakery can be an excuse for failure in defeat and a digital strategist’s inflated reason for success. Legislators looking for work hate finding an area of operation so big and – as the head of the Commons culture committee says – “totally unregulated”.

-Newspapers see Facebook and Google eating what’s left of their future as the digital giants devour 90% of advertising growth

I believe This article talks about what is a very fascinating perspective on what Facebook could resemble later on. With the circumstance that has tailed it in the previous couple of months, in regards to things like fake news and furthermore the "eating up" of promotion income, the expectation advanced for the eventual fate of Facebook is not unfeasible by any methods. The absence of a worldwide agreement for instance is an expansion of what we see now as far as how the deception is managed.

Liveblog: Bungie's 'Destiny 2' Grand Gameplay Reveal Event #70

Liveblog: Bungie's 'Destiny 2' Grand Gameplay Reveal Event

https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/05/18/liveblog-bungies-destiny-2-grand-gameplay-reveal-event/#313d2a8e4f3f

This article talks about how hundreds have flocked to LA for Bungie’s Destiny 2 gameplay premiere, and I expect at least a few hundred thousand to be watching online when the stream begins at 10 AM PT with a pre-show kicking off an hour before that.

I believe that this event is pioneering as it was live streamed on the IGN youtube channel for hundreds of thousands to watch online as well as a live studio audience. This gives audiences direct information on the game wherever they are in the world, the stream was also uploaded as a video by various game news channels like DATTO. Direct options for audiences to give feedback and talk of a future beta. Fans at the event also got to play the game early- selected parts and record the gameplay for others to see.

Facebook Live: Zuckerberg adds 3,000 moderators in wake of murders #69

Facebook Live: Zuckerberg adds 3,000 moderators in wake of murders

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/03/facebook-live-zuckerberg-adds-3000-moderators-murders

This article talks about Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, has a promise to accumulate 3,000 extra substance commentators and furthermore put resources into apparatuses to help expel content conflicting with group models all the more quickly for the informal organization. This comes after the gushing of shootings, assaults, murders and attacks that have gone ahead on the system in the course of the most recent few months, with these live communicates as yet being perceptible to clients in the wake of being spilled. This can happen in light of the fact that what's really depended on to examine substance is the 1.86 billion clients and a group of individuals at Facebook which survey revealed posts, retroactively expelling bringing them down from the site. So with this, on top of the 4,500 profound group that is now there, Zuckerberg means to include 3,000 throughout the following year 'to audit the a huge number of reports we get each week, and enhance the procedure for doing it rapidly.

I believe It creates the impression that later on, Facebook will see itself be a recipient of a significant powerful heap of feedback whether it's from the general population or even governments. To begin with it was restriction, then it was fake news and now it's the speed at which they expel shocking substance. While Zuckerberg has made the promise of acquainting another 3,000 substance commentators with the system, he'll presumably need to complete this rapidly as the substance simply doesn't appear to quit coming in.