It was not until the advent of participatory internet, otherwise known as web 2.0 that it was considered by academics and the profession itself, that media had become fluid and was about to undergo change.
That much is true. However, how much and, what exactly is going to change?
They say that there will no longer be a need for print journalist and that they will be out of a job. I beg to differ, if anything is to show, the internet, and the respective online newspapers have become the new print journalism. I’d consider that there are no jobs lost as such rather that they are in a state of flux.
Another thing to consider here is that it has been often commented that citizen journalism (that is, amateur reporting by the people for people as opposed to being done by the collective media group) will blow the media conglomerates to smithereens primarily because these citizens could access news and breaking headlines faster.
I do not see this as going to down this path. Instead I see that blogging sites, and amateur journo’s will be bought off into the organisation, and controlled by the conglomerates who will use citizen journalism and its allure as another gimmick to lure the readers to their papers or online formats.
What do you think? Where is the future of the media heading?
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