Chew TV is an Internet Television service based in Cornwall. Funded by Government and media industry grants it aspires to give young people a chance to make their own films which will be posted on the site.
If you log on to the site you can currently watch films including Far from Home, a film which depicts life in Cornwall during World War 2. What impressed me was the high quality of the films on their, all made by 14-25 year olds.
The channel states that in the long term it will use advertising to help pay for the site, though there isn't to much of that on the site at present.
From time to time the channel offer bursaries to young people who come up with the best film ideas.
The channel claims that it is watched by industry professionals scouting for young talent. All in all this is a great site and well worth looking at!
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Chew TV was a really interesting sight. Because it claims industry experts are on the scout, people have created intersting and more lateral pieces to intrigue the audience - but who's regulating the sight to confirm to the audience that thier pieces are being watched by experts?
Over the past couple of months, I have found myself becoming more intrigued by what other citizen-type journalists are producing as opposed to what the proffesionals are churning out each night.
There is something more personable about the format and I can relate to it very well. But on the other hand, I would never trust the information that was provided by it.
If internet TV has a boom I still feel that it will be the big media corporations who benefit from it, simply because people understand what thier values are.
The internet is a medium which invites anyone to have a go, and the danger is that information wil become manipulated and considering whether the information is true, false or malicious.
Large media corporations are going to have a head start with regards to regulations as thier work forces are aware of legalities and formalities which must be pursued. But smaller organisation which decide to branch out into internet TV, because its vaible, are going to come up against huge difficulties with consolidating audiences on the trust issue and it could even breed internet TV wars, as alternate sites attempt to out-do one another and lose sight of the original action or truth.
These are the extremes, but as Kent TV said, they opted into Ofcom regulations to create a trust bond with thier viewers and I think this is important.
Although sites like Chew TV are interesting I think there needs to be serious consideration as to how to regulate such sites whcih are inviting people to upload films and publish thier own 'understanding' of news.
This concern was raised in the British media recently as a YouTube film, depicted a woman being gang raped.
True, a rape is considered news by journalists, but for internet TV to really work and be trusted there needs to be some form of international regulations which everyone adheres to so that the content can be trusted.
The film of the rape should never have been uploaded, or if it was uploaded someone should have approved the content for publication or reported it to a higher authority such as the police (where this did eventually end up).
Ultimately, without regulations, even on sites such as Chew TV, the title 'news' could breed contempt and creates a real challenge for the audience to decide which sights and authors they can trust, and whcih are setting out to dupe them either intentionally or for the sake of beating thier compeetitor.
Wow - talk about longest comment of the blog! It confuses me more and more this whole debate on what we can and can't see on the internet and the regulations behind it. It can't be regulated the same way as TV broadcasting, yet I agree that a serious local news channel would choose to be regulated by Ofcom to gain the trust of the audience. Yet, people don't want regulated content. I am not saying people want to watch rape scenes, but this is one way in which the media will gradually change. 2o years ago, there was no way you would see a gay kiss on Coronation St, now there is one every week! The boundaries as to what is ethical and decent are getting pushed all time. It's a subject that will continue to be debated again and again...
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