Starting my annotated bibliography project, I thought of what important technologies have been used throughout the past twenty years that have played a large role in society, everyday. Without question, Media in the news has been growing for more than twenty years, and has been used almost everyday.In the past, that was newspapers, radio broadcasts, and word of mouth. Today, online social networking services such as RSS, television, online newspapers and magazines, Twitter and Facebook has paved paths for how we get our news and how that news is covered. This in turn, leads to more having access to news, and allows events and news to grow faster than ever, reaching more people than ever. Within my topic, I will be researching scholar based …show more content…
In turn, this material can be shared faster online than being broadcasted or written about by a large media outlet. In an instance, people can exchange multiple facts, opinions, and information within on these social media sites. Therefore, is the news switching from the typical large media outlet news, to a more third party user based news source on social media, as technology advances?
News organizations and reporters have been quick to adopt Twitter for an obvious reason: Its speed and brevity make it ideal for pushing out scoops and breaking news to Twitter-savvy readers. The Oregonian in Portland may have been the mainstream media pioneer in this regard; it began posting its own links and aggregating citizen tweets about flooding and road closures during heavy storms in central Oregon in late 2007, when Twitter barley had 500,000 users nationwide.
(Farhi 2009)
Fahri bases his whole entire article about Twitter, and explain many points about Twitter.
He touches on how journalists can seem to reach more people through Twitter and social media networking in general. Fahri also explains how and why Twitter can reach the older
New technology has fuelled the expansion with the growth of phone apps, social media formats, smartphones able to capture video and upload instantly onto the web. The public is now recording, documenting, sharing and viewing events as they happen, often before professional journalist or reporters. Technology allows people to view major events in real time anywhere in the world, creating a ‘global village’ in which everyone is connected (McLuhan 1964; cited in Giddens 2013). However, the mass medias of television, radio and newspapers both in print and online, continue to be the mediums the public accesses the news and events on a local, national and international
One of the things that these two in combination have changed is that now anyone can create and share news -- major news organizations no longer have to be relied
...plications, the public is able to share and obtain information before the morning newspaper is delivered. In addition, the media today continues to dramatize public events. Cases such as the Zimmerman Trial or foreign incidents in Ukraine remain headlines on news articles for months. Each source presents bias and influences its audience differently.
PewResearch. (2012, September 27). IN CHANGING NEWS LANDSCAPE, EVEN TELEVISION IS VULNERABLE. Retrieved from PewResearch Center for the People & the Press: http://www.people-press.org/2012/09/27/section-1-watching-reading-and-listening-to-the-news-3/
For years, the population has been exposed to different forms of media. Newspapers, magazines, television, films, radio, and more recently the Internet are ways of promoting ideas, spreading news, and advertising products.
I decided to research about this topic because in the last twenty years there has been a rise in power by the media with respect to politics. The media used to update the public of the significant events that happened
Living in a modern world, there are many different social media platforms to read and
Social Media and Credibility Issues with Internet Information Chiquita Johnson HUM186 July 24, 2017 Allyson Wells Social Media and Credibility Issues with Internet Information At one point in time, there were limited avenues for obtaining information, but as the world and mass media progressed, finding information is done with ease nowadays due to all of the advanced technology. There are many forms of advanced technology that connects information seekers to social media sites via the Internet.
Citizens around the world are drastically influenced by the media around them. Every day life is constantly changing because of the new trends on what is popular. As Ms. Susie Orbach stated “Social media […]
Innovation in information technologies has thrust humankind into an era of democratic media in which almost everyone can have immediate access to news and information, and become creators and contributors in the journalistic enterprise. As a result, news now moves in unconventional ways with unpredictable consequences.
Through technological advancements the television and internet now deliver the news instantly into our homes, which has inadvertently put pressure on the traditional newspaper to deliver up-to-the minute news. As technology developed swiftly over the 20th century, some academics could see the demise of the newspaper as early as the late 1960s. Marshall McLuhan (HREF1) an academic and commentator on communications technology prophesied “that printed books would become obsolete, killed off by television and other electronic information technology”. To compete with other more sophisticated electronic media systems, and to survive, newspapers joined the technological revolution and many publications went online in the fight to remain the number one information provider (Kesley 1995:16). In contrast, Kelsey (1995) states the main reaso...
Today social media has become a big influence on society. There are many different social media sites that allow people to interact with others. Such social media sites are Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. There are many more different sites, but these are the popular networks that are being used today. These sites allow you to connect with anybody you want to. Social media sites can make you feel connected with others and seem like the best thing, but at the same time it can be a weakness that many of us have.
We live in a world that has become addicted and dedicated toward social media and it is driving America’s youth into the ground. Teenagers and adults are so wrapped up in social media that is runs their lives every day. Constantly people are checking their phones for the latest on social networks. They have to see pictures, tweets, statuses, comments, likes, and the list goes on and on. Social media is becoming the focus point in the modern American society that it is beginning to control people’s social skills, communication skills, and their livelihood.
Nowadays people can access immense amount of readily available information. With Instagram, I can get up to minute news without confining myself to the mainstream media.as long have I have internet connection, I don’t have to switch on the TV, or computer, or buy newspapers; one can get breaking news anywhere anytime through videos and
The two major changes in media over the last century have been in Public relations