Sunday, 15 March 2009
Week 8 - Abstract 5
Although a short article, this article gives researched statistics implying the growing disinterest of young people and the news. From this article the internet and mobiles could be seen as distracting young people away from using new technology to source information, and possibly with the large variety of social aspects etc on the internet, neglecting finding out world wide issues. However, television is still a top source of gaining news, but how long will this stay like this for?
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It doesn't help that TV has so many digital channels these days- at one time there were only a few channels, and news was a big part of that. I can't see them putting news bulletins on between 'pimp my ride'!
ReplyDeleteWell there are more TV news sources than ever before -and Parliament has its own channel. But we don't watch them do we?
ReplyDeleteIsn't that a fact of consumerist individualism? We're only really interested in ourselves, those we can gossip about and those we can 'relate to' (hence thousands mourn Jade Goody and I don't give a hoot). Traditionally, this is one of the roles of song and drama, personalising and emotionalising the 'news'. It's just that nowadays there is so much 'news' and so little effective responsible comment.
Do you think produserism could rescue that with 'thoughtful gossip' providing the same connectedness to 'current events' as the ballads of old?