Thursday, 9 January 2014

The Impact of New & Digital Media on News

News:

Impact on audience-

  • can access news easily any time
  • audience can repeat news -become their own journalist, using camera phones  'Citizen Journalist' 
  • many sources of news

Impact on Institutions-

  • audience numbers are down for traditional institutions (newspapers)
  • advertising has been taken away from news by Google and other companies
Links to theories & debates-

  • Pareto's law
  • Globalisation
  • Pluralism 
  • Information age, Castells, 'most important medium'

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