-Robert Kuttner, columnist for the Boston Globe, predicts in the Columbia Journalism Review that newspapers will all be digital within 25 years. Despite gloomy forecasts and a late start, most newspapers have engaged into a viable transition to digital.
"A new Pew survey may offer some good news to a journalism industry eagerly seeking new and younger customers. People in the rapidly growing ranks of wireless Internet users are more likely to retrieve news online than those who access the web in other ways."
"The Associated Press has partnered with a citizen journalism site, NowPublic.com, to integrate user-generated content into the wires."
"The US Readership Institute (RI) delves into the results of the General Social Survey, which revealed that the public still trusts its local daily, much more so than other media. Newspapers still hold on to â and must use â the information industryâs most powerful asset: credibility."
Influential elites in China trust online news twice as much as newspapers but not as much as television
As people become more focused on the news they read online, the editor's role within traditional media because even more important "because our mission is to expose you to things you wouldn't have clicked on." ~Charles Gibson
As students continue to use and develop networked environments, it may become the case that the status of being admitted into a community by its members exceeds the credibility gained through âoutsideâ peer review. As this process evolves, we may see a broader transformation in which learning becomes a process of participation in a community rather than of receiving knowledge from an âexpertâ.
In what ways do digital technologies themselves affect credibility? I think the essential consequence is of increasing the diversity of credibility signals (both positive and negative, clarifying and obscuring). And at two levels--that of credibility of the content (whether a posting or about a person) and the credibility of the medium itself.
Many individuals who are accessing information on the web have no experience in traditional skills of judgment and information aggregation (e.g., they are young). Most individuals are very unsophisticated in using online sources and donât like to spend their entire lives online (e.g., they are old).
The origin of information, its quality, its veracity are in many cases less clear than ever before. Moreover, the same wide scale access & multiplicity of sources that ensure vast info availability also make assessing the credibility of info accurately complex. Youth are talented & comfortable users of technology, but they may lack crucial tools that aid them to seek/consume info effectively
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-Robert Kuttner, columnist for the Boston Globe, predicts in the Columbia Journalism Review that newspapers will all be digital within 25 years. Despite gloomy forecasts and a late start, most newspapers have engaged into a viable transition to digital.
As students continue to use and develop networked environments, it may become the case that the status of being admitted into a community by its members exceeds the credibility gained through âoutsideâ peer review. As this process evolves, we may see a broader transformation in which learning becomes a process of participation in a community rather than of receiving knowledge from an âexpertâ.
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