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
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
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 […]
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/
Facebook is slowly replacing the industry leading news stations like CNN, NBC and Fox News or in other words "the middleman" by directly connecting the public with the writer without the editor and publisher. Although that may have downsides most people seem to prefer it simply because it is not filtered on what a particular company wants to produce and gives less power to the major media companies that tend to sway people in a particular direction. To come up with a solution to the downside of Facebook comes many great ideas like creating an algorithm to spot unreliable news articles, or create a community that identifies misinformation for the benefit of everyone else, or creating a human team of journalist and policymakers that judges whether an article is factual. Although these theories have potential to be successful it is ultimately up to the viewer of the article to determine whether or not they want to research and confirm the information on the topic presented to them. Social media platforms have changed the way modern America perceives news forever with preferences to each profile and the ability to explore other types of information by entering a few keywords in a search bar is a method only a couple decades old and we should try to prevent from limiting this type of
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
Naturally, journalism would spill over to the Internet and as social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook grew in popularity, so did regular citizens involvement with sharing news. The argument can be made that the explosion of social media journalism was due to frustration from the lack of coverage of news that mattered to society. For example, the lack of subjective coverage of Michael Brown 's death helped with the creation of #BlackLivesMatter and spread of news related to African-American’s and other minorities across the country. After all, journalism is supposed to be a public forum. Millions of people on Twitter share their thoughts and opinions on several topics, furthering the conversation and to some degree challenging society. Things such as “Moments” on Twitter provide us with direct links and summaries to the world’s most important stories and encourage a conversation. According to journalism.org, 63% of users on Twitter and Facebook get their news from these websites. Even more eye opening is that 59% of users on Twitter keep up to date with news stories via Twitter while they are in the process of happening.[3] The rise of social media related journalism has caused some issues however. “Inevitably, as citizen involvement grows, more of our media culture is concerned with talking about news, instead of focusing on original reporting and the vetting of it.”[4] Because the general public has the ability to post as they wish and pass it off as news, it has affected the accuracy of many reports. Many stories lack reputable sources but are shared between millions as an accurate and true story. There are several websites designed to spread inaccurate information. The website www.fakenewswatch.com exists to inform people of these sites in order to avoid mishaps. Recently a Connecticut mom went viral for being involved in an online hoax
News channels are now being broadcasted on social media also. Instead of staying home to watch it, you can now watch it live on Facebook or other sites.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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