Media Control Panel: TV Station Spotlight
A short video demonstrating the TV station feature in the Media Control Panel.
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He said some political groups were still staging activities that could bring about more rifts in the country. Three orders of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) - numbers 79, 97 and 103 - would be strictly observed.
The orders ban media operators from featuring people connected with political parties. The content must not be critical of the NCPO or the government; programmes must be recorded in advance so they can be checked for content before broadcast; there must be no phone-ins to any programmes, even to entertainment ones such as music programmes.
He said the department would keep a close watch on 147 radio stations and all newspapers, Facebook and Line. "Please be patient because our country is suffering from a serious illness and we need a surgery to be healthy and happy as we were,'' he said.
Apinant said the government must tighten its grip on the media, including community radio, and if it allows the situation to go back to square one, attempts to restore peace and heal the rifts would be in vain.
He added that some community radio stations were allowing advertisements of drugs that do not have the approval of the Food and Drug Administration, placing the health of the public at risk.
First Army Region deputy director Colonel Suthat Nakpan said authorities needed to step up checks and controls against any group aiming to instigate public revolt through the use of media. He said he did not expect a crackdown on undercurrents to be easy but officials must ensure their continued efforts and get the public to understand and use their judgement when consuming media.
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'Tighter control over media to check divisive groups'
BEIJING (Caixin Online) Two more video-content providers said on Sept. 1 they would remove their Internet TV apps from online stores, after the countrys media regulator moved to tighten control over content that can be shown on Internet TVs and set-top boxes.
LeTV Media & Technology Co., which provides both content and devices, sent a notice to the third-party stores, asking them to remove the app that allows TV viewers access to online videos.
LeTV stopped taking orders for its TV set-top boxes a month ago. It has also suspended sales of its video content.
LeTV said it made the moves because of requirements from the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television. Its public-relations personnel did not answer questions about when it might resume sales.
Baidu Inc.s BIDU, -0.25% online video service iQiyi, which is similar to Google Inc.s GOOG, +0.36% YouTube, has also withdrawn its app from the online stores.
Many net companies have stopped selling content and devices. The companies include Youku Tudou Inc. YOKU, -1.03% the countrys leading online video provider; streaming website PPTV.com; BesTV New Media Co. 600637, +0.09% ; and China Network Television (CNTV).
In June, the media regulator told the industry to remove apps that allow viewers to watch content from the Internet that doesnt come from seven licensed providers. Those companies are China Network Television, Shanghai Media Group, Wasu Group 000156, +0.83% , Southern Media Corp., Hunan Television, China Radio International and China National Radio.
The next month, officials from the media regulator met with representatives from the seven providers in two groups to set out requirements for fixing problems in the Internet TV industry.
The requirements banned the providers from offering apps for Internet TV and set-top boxes to allow viewers to watch content from commercial websites. The companies are also not allowed to make deals with telecoms operators and firms being investigated by the media watchdog.
LeTVs app had attracted many viewers due to its large amount of content. Viewers had access to 7,000 movies, 100,000 episodes of TV dramas, 10,000 hours of family programming and live broadcast of sports events through its app.
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If you thought the only danger of social media was stalking your ex or obsessing over a colleagues' covetable wardrobe, think again. It turns out that the phenomenon could be affecting your brain in a number of ways.
This incredibly educational (and slightly scary) video from AsapSCIENCE explains how social media affects the way we think and operate. And, seeing as one third of the world use social media, it's a pretty big issue.
So for example, 5-10% of internet users are unable to control how much time they spend online. While social media is a psychological addiction, brain scans show a similar pattern to those of drug addicts.
Because social media offers instant gratification our brains crave it. Hence the reason you keep running out of data at the end of the month. (Don't worry, it happens to the best of us.)
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Think switching between Instagram, Facebook and Twitter makes you better at multi-tasking? Wrong. Studies have shown that constant interruptions work to reduce your ability to focus and even commit things to memory. Yikes.
So, next time you get that social media itch, how about trying to resist the urge to click?
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Do you know what your children are doing online? Youve savvy enough to admit that its likely you dont know the full extent of it. In many homes, the Internet gives kids their first taste of real freedom, as they wander down unfamiliar virtual side streets and meet new people maybe people parents wouldnt allow over for a play date. This lack of control leads to worry, which translates to full-blown hysteria when its processed by the media or, as we call it these days, the Internet. Stories abound about young people misbehaving online or becoming victims of bullies, predators and kidnappers. And more often than not, at the center of these morality tales is a teenaged girl.
Shayla Thiel-Stern says this moral panic about young women is nothing new; in fact, it dates back more than 100 years, when parents and the media fretted about the popularity of dance halls among young people. Her new book, From the Dance Hall to Facebook: Teen Girls, Mass Media, and Moral Panic in the United States, 1905-2010 (University of Massachusetts Press) posits that the real problem was not with the girls behavior, but with the medias demeaning coverage of young women to titillate a perverse and judgmental adult audience. Through historical research and interviews conducted with teenagers and former teenagers, she makes a compelling case for more measured media coverage of young people, noting that the way the media treats women on the edge of adulthood sets a standard for limiting their political and social power for the rest of their lives.
Thiel-Stern is a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Minnesota.
MinnPost: Journalists have been trained to be more conscious about the way they report on issues involving race, gender, and older people but perhaps not younger people. What things would you want a journalist to consider when writing about teenagers?
Shayla Thiel-Stern: I think many journalists are still fairly wary of speaking to minors in a lot of cases because they are so sensitive to maintaining their privacy and because they dont want to represent them in a way that could bring them harm or ridicule. This is not impossible, though. Some reporters really do a fantastic job of including quotes from teens in the articles they write about them using social media; for example, Katie Humphrey of the Star Tribune and Jan Hoffman of the New York Times always include quotes from young people in the stories that they write about them, rather than just quoting experts and officials. They tell more compelling stories as a result.
MP: You seem to criticize journalists for quoting, verbatim, teen subjects using "youth slang," saying that doing so places teen girls at the margins of society. But the emergence of slang often comes from teenagers, who may revel in its use precisely because it is their own language. Might they appreciate the opportunity to affirm their belonging to the teen world?
Shayla Thiel-Stern
ST: There are appropriate uses of quoting sources using slang and poor English. In the historical cases in my book, the journalists were choosing quotes that tended to demonstrate the teen girls lack of education and taste to fit within the larger narrative of their stories. For example, the few times the young women going to dance halls were quoted included broken English and slang that at the time in history was considered a mark of their working-class background. In the stories about teen girls and Elvis where they were screaming or calling him the most, the reporters usually were fitting the quotes into a larger adult narrative about how youth today were so hard to understand and their taste so questionable. Most articles that adults write about their daughters love of One Direction still do this. Its fun to read, but it certainly questions and minimizes girls taste and reinforces the trope that teen girls are silly, nave and not to be taken seriously.
MP: You begin by exploring the dance hall culture of a century ago. Is there a modern equivalent to the dance hall?
ST: The modern equivalent to the dance hall is found on the Internet and mobile apps. Right now, parents wonder about all the selfies their daughters are posting on Instagram or sending on Snapchat, and worrying about how they are portraying themselves in a fairly public space. That was definitely the worry at the time of dance halls in the early 1900s. There are huge differences between what was happening then those teen girls were rarely in school and often supported their families; women couldnt vote then and their political and cultural power was more limited but the moral panic over what girls are doing in public recreational space is still very much the same.
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'Dance Hall to Facebook' calls for more measured media coverage of young people