There is information going on ALL around us, if you stop and thinking about it, information faces our society evrey second of evrey day and most of us are always willing to receive information for example people are able to fall asleep with their mobile phone on their pillow.
The information age is upon us, the internet is the biggest information provider and used by the majority of people. Therefore how does this affect the changing role of the “21st century malti tasking journalist” well to some extent I would say it does, as more people due to the web have the freedom to write Journalists have to preaphs have a far more greater understanding of what information is already out there and published and what information needs to be put out there. However despite the introduction of “web journalists” (anyone can publish on blogs, facebook, myspace) traditional media formats will never go away and there will always be a great demand for newspapers, magazines and newspapers as they are apart of the calture we live in.
Journalisum is in my opinon getting much more diverse, A lot of newspapers and magazine publications welcome contrabutions from the general public (articles pictures, reviews) so maybe Journalisum is no longer seen as to be only for “professinals” and anyone who can write well and wants to put forth thair opinion is worthy enough to get published.
Also from a PR angle, the ever increasing comursulisation along with the “celebrity” calture it could be argued that there is more Journalisum that promotes rather then informs, this could be seen in the tabloids where the calture of celebrity is all over the paper and a lot of this orgininates from PR spin.
In consideration of all of these factors, Journalists still have a very important role because they feed the calture of the mass media however the media as an industry has expanded to suit the new industrial age and has become open to a wider sector of people.
The information age is upon us, the internet is the biggest information provider and used by the majority of people. Therefore how does this affect the changing role of the “21st century malti tasking journalist” well to some extent I would say it does, as more people due to the web have the freedom to write Journalists have to preaphs have a far more greater understanding of what information is already out there and published and what information needs to be put out there. However despite the introduction of “web journalists” (anyone can publish on blogs, facebook, myspace) traditional media formats will never go away and there will always be a great demand for newspapers, magazines and newspapers as they are apart of the calture we live in.
Journalisum is in my opinon getting much more diverse, A lot of newspapers and magazine publications welcome contrabutions from the general public (articles pictures, reviews) so maybe Journalisum is no longer seen as to be only for “professinals” and anyone who can write well and wants to put forth thair opinion is worthy enough to get published.
Also from a PR angle, the ever increasing comursulisation along with the “celebrity” calture it could be argued that there is more Journalisum that promotes rather then informs, this could be seen in the tabloids where the calture of celebrity is all over the paper and a lot of this orgininates from PR spin.
In consideration of all of these factors, Journalists still have a very important role because they feed the calture of the mass media however the media as an industry has expanded to suit the new industrial age and has become open to a wider sector of people.
posted by Kate at 15:38
