Week 6: We’re All a Twitter!
Journalism and its negotiation of online, the blogosphere and social media
This week's presentation by Terence and Yvonne comprehensively described the relationship between journalists and new media. One of the main focus of Terence's speech is on connectivity; the engagement between organisations/journalists and its audiences through new media platforms. Yvonne further elaborated on the individual characteristics of online world, blogosphere and social media. These mediums provide a platform for journalists to connect with wider audiences. However, therein lies the challenge for journalists to be adequately equipped to learn how to use these platforms to their advantage.
Coming back to the issue of speed, new media technology has certainly enabled information to transmit and spread at a phenomenal rate. As described by Yvonne, this is a double-edged sword. Speed helps audiences to attain information and footages as and when events are unfolding, such as the recent FIFA scandal and press conference. However, speed has also made information released unretractable. As such, this will help ensure users of social media to post comments responsibly as we now understand whatever goes online is visible to a worldwide audience.
The class discussion generated a debate on how traditional(print) media and alternative media forms will balance out in the future. Terence suggested that traditional media has survived many challenges such as TV and radio, and will continue to survive in the future to complement alternative media. However, Yvonne predicted our generation to be the last ones to embrace both media forms, while future generations will only embrace alternative media such as online and citizen journalism. In my opinion, traditional media represents credibility and citizens will eventually still turn to newspapers or established media corporations for accurate dosage of information.
- Andy Wang
The class discussion generated a debate on how traditional(print) media and alternative media forms will balance out in the future. Terence suggested that traditional media has survived many challenges such as TV and radio, and will continue to survive in the future to complement alternative media. However, Yvonne predicted our generation to be the last ones to embrace both media forms, while future generations will only embrace alternative media such as online and citizen journalism. In my opinion, traditional media represents credibility and citizens will eventually still turn to newspapers or established media corporations for accurate dosage of information.
- Andy Wang
Yes I predicted that our generation will be the last one to embrace both media forms and future generations will only embrace online media. This is because alternative media is increasingly meeting the needs of the audience. Although, print media offers fair reporting and higher credibility, it will still die off if the audience does not recognise this as important in journalism. That is the scary part; that journalism's survival is very much dependent on the audience.
ReplyDeleteI think there is a fair amount of truth in what you observe. Most of the buzz surrounding any hot issue are all found online. If mainstream media companies were to survive, it could be possible that they too start planning how to establish themselves as a strong point of reference in the online world of blogs and social media.
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