Robert Burnett and P. David Marshall argues that news has become “a subset of a wider search for information by Web users” (206) This argument makes me think about how i try to find news that i want to find out on the inet. As we have learnt in previous blogs Web 2.0 is hyperlinked everywhere, a user will go onto one website and can find itself being on a completely different website due to hyperlinks. Hyperlinks enables us to search wide across the inet to allow us to find the news that we want.
However, i feel that it can be argued that news such as CNN and the telegraph might require 'original journalists,' i believe that the inet doesn't. In relation to question b) i do believe that the inet uses ‘new kinds of journalist'. With this i do not mean that they need to be educated in this field, instead what i believe is that all web users whether they realise it or not can be a produser of news. As Burnett and Marshall state - even newsgroups and Weblogs are considered as additional sources for information retrieval, rather than as new avenues for new kinds of journalists to develop and publish new kinds of news. Therefore, does that mean we can be one of the 'new kinds of journalists'?
Friday, 20 February 2009
Topic 1 - Meikle a) + b)
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but do you think if everybody can be a journalist, that everybody are not going to have the same authority? It could be argued that the powerful organisations still rule the internet and it still mirrors capitalist society. Therefore people will still look at the BBC for headlines, because of the trust they have gained through other mediums. Do you think that this competition to get heard will prevent people from being journlaist online?
ReplyDeletewhen i mean 'new kinds of journalists' i do not mean a journalist that has been educated and has the right qualifications in this field, i mean that maybe a new 'type' of journalism has become apparent on the inet in which people comment and create 'their' news. i see what you mean by people going to the bbc first for headlines online and tbh i would do to, but i believe that news can be anything and even me putting on my status on facebook HANNAH IS ... GETTING IN THE SHOWER. to you (as you are my friend) this would be relevant news to you. do you get me?
ReplyDeleteHannah you make a very good point. Maybe we aren't just talking about news in the form of headlines and world events. Maybe as well as Turkle's ideas of building these Personas online we are also becoming journalists in our own rights.
ReplyDeleteWhen I log onto someone elses Facebook I have to read what their page displays, does this then make them a journalist? Not in the proffesional sense but they are still writing for what I am finding interesting.
Burnett and Marshall state that news online has become a "wider search for information" and maybe this is correct when we consider what we personally browse and produse on the Internet.