Technology is an important aspect of everyday life. Since the advent of technology, every industry that has engaged with technology and its features has produced results efficiently, cost-effectively and promptly thus making the lives of all the people easier. The same effect can also be found in the field of journalism and its associated field. The impact of technology on journalism is evident. As more and more people are becoming technologically sound, it is an imperative for journalism also to employ the tools of digital technology. Technology in terms of digital technology has helped journalism in Australia tremendously. Effective communication, which is pivotal to the functioning of journalism, has been greatly improved with the help of digital technology. This research essay will explain digital technologies, what does journalism constitute of and how digital technologies are changing the nature of journalism in Australia by concentrating on the specific digital technologies like the mobile phones or smartphones, internet and the social media. In doing so, this essay deduces the fact that journalism in Australia is greatly benefiting from digital technologies. Digital technologies are those kinds of technologies that are employed by devices that process information through bits. It is an electronic method of process of information. “A digital electronic device is any device that stores and process bits electronically” (Baldauf & Stair 2010, p.5). The form of communication that digital technologies use is called digital communication. There is a convergence of all forms of digital forms on communication happening with the help of digital technologies. Digital technologies provide a platform for all the forms of informatio... ... middle of paper ... ...tion to New Media, Berg. Hirst, M, Little, J, Hayes,M & Treadwell, G 2012, So You Want to be a Journalist?: Unplugged, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne. Kawamoto, K 2003, Digital Journalism: Emerging Media and the Changing Horizons of Journalism, Rowman & Littlefield, USA. Singh, A.K 2007, Science & Technology For Upsc, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, New Delhi. Speak English or Die, 2012. Available from . [1 June 2014] Synodinou, T, Kapidakis, S, Iglezakis, I 2011, E-publishing and Digital Libraries: Legal and Organizational Issues, IGI Global. Woman filmed attacking elderly man, 2014. Available from . [1 June 2014].
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I say this because there were points in which I personally could not really understand what was going on due to my lack of exposure to this problem that American journalism is facing. More specifically, terminology that was used, especially from business standpoints, and the different companies that were involved made it harder to keep up with the issue at hand. However, with a little editing and better explanation of terminology, I think that this film could extend to a wide audience that would include both digital natives and digital immigrants that are experiencing this transition within American news reporting. This paper will examine the difference between old and new journalism and its new standards, “The New York Times Effect” and its 21st century challenges, important qualifications to be a successful journalist, and the future role of journalism within American society.
Greer tells such a compelling story of learning the field of journalism, I find myself learning alongside her account. By noticing intricate details and advice given by Dr. Greer during the telling of her story, I strengthen my own learning experience in the field of journalism. Clearly, Dr. Greer has told this story to other aspiring journalists before me. The ease with which Dr. Greer explains her learning experience suggests that she tells this story on many occasions. The fact that Dr. Greer tells her story so often serves as another indicator of her success.
Chris Master incorporates the ‘duty of journalists [as] to reshape information and get that information to the public’, while this is important and periodically essential, it is his broad knowledge tells us that ‘the best journalism is the journalism to challenge the orthodox, respectfully challenge the public opinion and occasionally deliver bad news’(pg 5). While this is almost evident in Masters’ book, but the fact he did not deliver these stories that seem perfectly fit for ‘today’s journalism’ he attains a kind of benevolence, and consideration for his subjects. As seen in his anonymity, which shows the reader how it is not worth the social and media torment of the journalistic process. Quite powerfully he delivers the calming words that many of us already know, perhaps by our own nature or experience: ‘In order for there to be good journalism, journalists need to find a balance between what they want to present and what the public wants’.
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There are two distinct sides to the debate of journalism, their journalists, and the consumers: traditional journalism and public journalism. In the current digital age there is a greater number of public journalism being practiced. However, journalists and their consumers run into several issues concerning that matter. To express more clearly, there are particular roles and characteristics in which journalism standards are being gauged.
Thirty years ago, if I told you that the primary means of communicating and disseminating information would be a series of interconnected computer networks you would of thought I was watching Star Trek or reading a science fiction novel. In 2010, the future of mass media is upon us today; the Internet. The Internet is and will only grow in the future as the primary means of delivering news, information and entertainment to the vast majority of Americans. Mass media as we know it today will take new shape and form in the next few years with the convergence and migration of three legacy mediums (Television, Radio, Newspaper) into one that is based on the Internet and will replace these mediums forever changing the face of journalism, media and politics. In this paper I will attempt to explain the transition of print media to one of the internet, how the shift to an internet based media environment will impact journalism and mass media, and how this migration will benefit society and forever change the dynamic of news and politics.
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The sense that the world is in the middle of a continuing communications revolution has been strong since the 1960s when television made its great breakthrough. It was then that the Canadian writer on communications, Marshall McLuhan, made his memorable statements that “the medium is the message” and that the world was becoming a global village. It was then too that the word “media” became part of daily speech, covering not only electronic media, live television, but older print media, particularly the press.
It’s a question that keeps floating around in the public sphere: is print advertising and newspapers dead? The world is becoming more and more fast-paced and although, our want and need for the up-to-date news and breaking stories has not changed, the way in which we consume it has. This background report investigates and explains the downfall of the newspaper and the technological shift to online news. It will also discuss differing opinions of this relevant topic of the future of journalism from a range of reliable primary sources and investigative data.
In trying to attract new audiences, news media have begun to transition from reporting to becoming a form of entertainment. With the meteoric rise of social media’s role as a news source, the fight for an increase of diversity in the media, and the ever-growing desire of immediate content, the future of responsible journalism is more important than ever. Ask yourself, why do I think the way I do? Where do my political views originate? How do I prove them? Most likely, it is due to the biased portrayal of issues in the media and the politicization that accompanies what we consume. Now, compare your views to your preferred news reporting entity. More than likely, they are the same.
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Hence, any debate of the future becoming digital must take into consideration the reaction of the media to the technological innovations of the world, from the Personal Computers (PC) to the smallest Smartphone. Although mass media has increased with technological innovations, what driv...