Compare with new media and traditional media, more power been controlled by audience within new media environment. News report increasingly tends to populism and amateurization, in the other words news report becoming unprofessionalism at the present period. We talk about citizen journalism and new media audience this week; I think new media completely change the way how audience reflect media organisations. For instance, audience exchange ideas through new media platform rather than accept perspectives through traditional media platform. The position of traditional media been changed since new media became popularity, changed from control position to a gate watching role. As Ted mentioned that the function of professional journalism is filter and distributes information within the public sphere. Audience become citizen journalism and self-report, as Ted mentioned that consumers becomes prosumers and the world where participating is its won reward.
Example provided within the first reading, the question of how Twitter will change the way we live has been analysed by Steven. He indicates that a single tweet from an event might be worthless; in the other words information becomes valuable when it is abundant and packaging.
“Yes, it was built entirely out of 140-character message, but the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles”
I agree with it. Network plays a vital role in people’s lives. Mass media especially new media industry becomes self-report and populism. The other reading which done by Axel portray journalism as a gatekeeper, but the productions of journalistic was controlled through the practice which the publication were considered sacrosanct whin domestic and international. He indicate that
“Compared to journalistic gatekeeping, gatewatching requires away different set of skills: it relies less on first-hand investigative research and the ability to compose succinct news stories, and more on information search and retrieval skills especially in online environment”
The role transform form controller to gatekeeping on mass media is obviously shown in modern society. Personally, I think new media become popularity does not mean professional journalism lost its value. In the other words, in spite of citizen journalism become popularity within a past decade, professional journalism can not be replaced by them.
I think that the rise in citizen journalism has made us all the gatekeepers allowing us to slush through all the bullshit stories and decide what stories we want to hear about. I think that the article had it half right with the suspension bridge made of pebbles. Each hashtag (#) on twitter is itself a topic, a bridge, comprised of hundreds, maybe even thousands of tweets. These pebbles make up the bridges of citizen journalism.
回复删除• I think there are many great points you have made here. Especially in reference to us as the gate keepers and having the control to decided what is worth reading an what is not. It will become more difficult for us, with citizen journalism, to know what is really and what is not. I think the traditional form of media communication will never completely die out because we consider these forms of media to be reliable and reputable sources. It is possible that there will be further changes and more online action and freelancing, but I guess we shall just have to wait and see, there is only so much we can guess about the future…
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