To me I would class online news as being the websites for BBC, ITV etc, consequently news channel websites. I’m aware that may seem narrow minded in saying that, but I think even though I have grown up with technology progressing, if I want to see, hear or watch the news I would go straight to bbc.com. However, I am aware, and do agree with what Burnett and Marshall say when they identified a “shifted boundary of what constitutes as news.” (Page 9) With reference to the internet and news, I think to some extent people don’t necessarily want mass media news, they want opinions and are looking for views on on-going social issues that they can read, and reply with their own views. A new chance compared to usually just being told the news. XXXXX
In terms of indymedia, it’s a specific site where people have the chance to be journalists, and recognised for it. This is a further expression of the ‘freedom’ that the internet has given us. Therefore, there are ‘new kinds of journalists’ because “audience members are transformed into researchers.” (Page 8) People online read and research the internet and as a result of this want to post their views for the world to see, and this is possible for internet users.
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Yes, I think it's important that we all realise that America and many other countries don't have a national/global news industry as a model. In the States for example, newspapers are local/regional -as is radio and even TV is associated with partial 'networks' of local stations (with many people 'supporting' one channel's news over another, a bit like some people only read one national newspaper in the UK. CNN stepped into that situation 20? yrs ago.
ReplyDeleteBut americans are used to gleaning their news from various sources and Inet news fits into their culture much more forcefully than it does ours. Still, I guess that when it comes to your favourite band -or some other specialist area, you don't look to the established media; but to sites where produserism is both the appeal and the source of 'hard to get' info? This sort of thing is the model that all these cybertopians have in mind, but the topics are more likely to be nuclear proliferation and or deforestation etc.