Online and Participatory Media

Participatory media is media where the audience can play an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analysing and disseminating content. 

Participatory media is important as it offers consumers to express their opinions and views on different topics all over the world, it offers the consumers to share the news with their followers and allows the public to engage with the news. 

One positive is that it gives freedom of speech for people to express themselves and another is that people are able to reach news in a matter of seconds as it happens.

One disadvantage is that some people may take it too seriously and people will take advantage of this freedom without any consequences. 

Summary of the Ant McPartlin Story 

In this article, it humanises Ant McPartlin as he has recently been charged with a drink driving offence having just come out of rehab due to an addiction to pain killers. In this article it talks about Ant's childhood and how his estranged dad left him when he was just 10 years old, also how his mother took care of him and his close bond between siblings. 

This is news is more soft celebrity gossip news, which is typical for a tabloid and it is featured as the splash because Ant is seen as a loved public figure for the UK public and is someone who everyone relates to due to his humble beginnings.  

Representations of the working class 

• Newman (2006) argues that there are very few situation comedies, television or drama which focuses on the everyday lives of working class who constitute a significant section of society,

• Newman argues that when in the media working class are often depicted in a very non positive light dumb buffoons (Homer Simpson) and immature machos (Phil Mitchell),

• Butsch (1992) – working class portrayed as flawed individuals (benefit cheats, etc)

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This article is about an Asian man who recently was forced to come out as gay to his mum due to a member of Theresa May's aide o releasing statement stating that them two were in a relationship. This was because Shahmir was seen found leaking information. 

Shahmir Sanni is represented as a victim, he was a open volunteer for Vote leave and so were heavily linked with the conservative party. From the pictures and the article it is clear to see that Shahmir is heartbroken and upset and was forced to come out to his mum rather than take his time with it. 

The mirror would want the PM involved so she is seen as guilty by association as her aide publicly outed the volunteer, who was helping them.

From this article, the general public are split in opinions from these tweets. One side which is very right wing and unsympathetic whereas the other side is left wing and quite sympathetic. 

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The goal of the Telegraph is to basically have a go at the Labour party and show its support to the conservative party. 

The mirror's agenda in reflecting the conservative party is to almost hinder their campaign in support of the Labour party. This is also proven on Twitter as a lot of the people tweeting at the Mirror are all very left wing and are almost against the conservatives and tweets are generally negative towards them. 

Whereas the Telegraph's agenda in reflecting the Labour party is the same in the fact that they want to ruin Labour's reputation this is further proven by the articles stating that Jeremy Corbyn is a anti semite. The tweets also further signifies this as most people who tweet at the telegraph are in fact right wing and against Labour.