literature Review- Journalism
How journalists are using social media for real results.
References:
http://mashable.com/2010/04/12/journalists-gist
http://mashable.com/2010/07/23/internet-journalism-survey
http://www.google.com.sg/imglanding?q=new%20media%20tools&imgurl=http://blog.yert.com/__oneclick_uploads/2008/10/yert__tools_1024x768.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blog.yert.com/2008/10/20/yerts-new-media-tools/&usg=__CJKnU2oC–am0amF72J_hy_I3Ac=&h=768&w=1024&sz=241&hl=en&zoom=1&itbs=1&tbnid=Kw2A2-8zj3vKnM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnew%2Bmedia%2Btools%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&sa=G&gbv=2&tbs=isch:1&start=0#tbnid=Kw2A2-8zj3vKnM&start=0 (googled images)
http://mashable.com/2009/06/19/teaching-social-media/
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-media/is-the-new-twitter-journalisms-new-best-friend–008677.php
Journalism does the reporting of events such as governmental, politics aspect to entertainment, social aspect to the public. These reported articles and news are usually published using traditional media, such as television, radio and print publications. They transmit stories or news and usually play the middle role between the public and public relations. However, as the technology evolves, and the world wide web becomes more advance, journalists found a way into using the social media to improve on reporting more efficiently. Moreover, Journalists are relied and expected to report news that are truth and up to date. This article is about how journalists is using the social media to widen their horizon of journalism, and the media tools that are popular in usage among them. The reason why I chose this article out of the other articles is because journalism are often neglected. We read the news and gain information of the the world’s happenings, from assessible both traditional to new media ways. However, it doesn’t appeal to us where these news are from, how they are painstaking reported. We merely, absorb the updated information. Furthermore, journalists worked together with the traditional media and new media closely, constantly forming a controversy among these two. It will be interesting to know how the new media has affect journalism. In addition, this article is very informative, it talks about the new media tools that journalists are using currently, how relient and effective these tools has enabled the journalist, making reporting easier and more fulfilling.
Key findings;
New media tools, How the new media tool has aid in the publication, traditional media, and promoting the social media.
Twitter(Crowd Sourcing)/Facebook: Twitter can be used to hunt for sources, and search for information. It allows users to interact online , share ideas, and engaged in a two way conversation. Twitter enables users to form an engagement with their audience, as such by posting a single comment, it can be viewed by all of the participants. As such, news are being reported and spread rapidly among the audience. Moreover, twitter enables journalists to be aware of what topics are attracting interest, and the public positive or negative views of any current issues. Apart from reporting, journalists could also promote a social brand or anything related to that, even without clicking on the “tweets”, most users usually glance and scroll through them. It presented it like a two way advertisement communication channels, where both parties can interact with one another. Not forgetting, by googling one’s own names, the user twitter profile is often able to be tracked down.
Facebook is an multi-community channel that connects multiple users at one go. With its user-friendliness, the users are able to be searchable by your personal particulars, as it mentioned in the article. In the article, it shows Tracy Swartz and Lauren McCullough using of facebook has helped their work in a way or another. (uses Facebook to communicate with bus drivers. These city employees friended her on Facebook so that they could send her information about city transportation.
social networks and news engagement manager for The Associated Press, can also attest to the importance of Facebook when looking for sources.) (as taken from the article.) Both are of different jobscope however, they equally benefit from using facebok, as it is this trackable. Facebook was intended for social networking initially. However, as millions of people have be using it, it becomes a business tool to share work and build contacts. Facebook is also connected from one person to another, by posting a post, similarly to a tweet on twitter, all your friends will inevitable to chance upon it. A status update post is almost like a news source itself. Lastly, facebook allows one to create a community group, it is a useful organisation for distribution of stories, and journalists could highly benefit from such channels.
Youtube/blogs: Journalists not only post articles or photographs. But they also post up videos. Youtube becomes a sharing resource channel, but focus on videos types. (Olivia Ma, news manager at the video-sharing site, recalls seeing thousands of videos being uploaded to the site depicting upheaval in the streets, clashes between dissenters and police, as well as gruesome killings, of the Iranian killings) ( as taken from the article). One happening, a hundred videos as a response, this show the rising populated youtube have became. One video could arises to million of viewers at times. Youtube videos are not merely spread through copies of video republication, but word of mouth. The content and happenings of the video became propaganda. As it’s the journalists job to report on the happenings, when they post these activities on the new social media, it will ensure to reach more wider audience.
Traditional media
Television, radio and most commonly print publications are labeled as traditional media. We could only have access to the news on these media is when we chance upon them on radio or television, or we purchase the newspapers to read. Most of the public are used to the form of reporting by the traditional media as it has been around for many years. Moreover, it was commented that these traditional media information and news are more trustable and reliable as compared to the new media. However, posting on advertisements on traditional media requires money to do so, while in new media, it is quite so the opposite. Some journalists are highly against new media as the rate of revenue produced by the earnings of the traditional media has decreased. Publications have been reporting significant loss of readership as well as ad revenues to online media. However, some journalist uses both traditional media and new media respectively.
New media has definitely made life more assesible and easier for the public. Letting them gain knowledge of any latest happenings and sharing their views. It also aid in journalists reports, giving a larger audience, and creates more opportunity in engagement. Now, everyone can take part in exchanging their thoughts, and thus expanding our horizons and also increase their Web-traffic. Enabling utmost interaction among anonymous users, and thus generating the freedom of speech. However, it will cause a decline in traditional media in one way or another, as more people becomes adaptable to the new media ways of processing information, as such the country economy might be slightly affected. Also, with a overload of information on the new media, its difficult to decipher which articles are true and which are false. Or how accurate the article are, as compared to traditional media, which has sustainability. Lastly, plagiarism are common, therefore journalists has to be more creative.
All in all, both the new media and traditional media should be kept in place with the society, and relate together. New media should not eliminate the form of traditional media totally. As they both reach out to the different vast of individual audience. I believed that they are interdependent on another. Traditional media, alone is a success, however allied both of them together, it would take journalism to the next level.
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