News On The Web - When it comes down to the basic form of news on the web, we should be sticking with traditional sites such as the BBC, Sky etc. These are the sites in which real qualified journalists are writing for, instead of this idea which the audience becomes the researchers/journalists. This gives me the impression of false news and information and reminds me of Wikipedia where anyone can add information. I understand that these are 'additional sources for information retrieval' as Meikle describes, however with these major news sites such as the BBC, there is a sense of reliability and trust.
New Journalists Online - I do agree with this and what Meikle says. With the mention of blogging and news groups even the everyday joe can contribute to the discussions. I would still relate back to my first point in questioning weather these are reliable sites to gain our information, but I suppose this gives the user that sense of being a real journalist. An easy thing to do on the Net where we can become anyone we want to be.
DIY News Online - When taking this into mind, my first thought I would relate this to is blogging. A place were we can start off discussions of our own and build on it. When questioning it as an alternative culture, I probably would agree with this statement. Not only as it's an online society which is an alternative to the big named news media groups, but they are part of Indymedia where we see small time sites making an impact.
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News on the web - I agree with the reliability of the BBC, ITV etc, but the news they are reporting is still manipulated in some ways to, for example maintain national identity etc. When users search the internet for news aside from the BBC, CNN, ITV (ETC) sites, I think the users are looking for news that is coming from more like-minded people, where the news is coming through without the gatekeeping. For those people, is reliability a big factor?
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ReplyDeleteBecause so few of you are acting upon my advice to post urls and to post forum alerts, one of the best aspects of normal blogs is missing, that is the networking of info and insight that is created in the blogosphere. Partly because of how Google works, you'll find that normal blogs hyperlink to many other blogs and web pages whilst encouraging others to link to their blog posts. This way, blogs often act as opinion gateways to other info. This is particularly important with special interest areas.
ReplyDeleteBlogs on UK higher education by Professors of education would be better sources than professional journalists' because the bloggers are experts and they're involved. They also know other experts and get them commenting on their blogs and posting links to their own sites as well as to others. When one encounters a good, well networked blog or forum, it's pretty clear that the info is better than almost all journalism on the subject. However, are such sites the norm? (as some cybertopians suggest) or shining exceptions to the rule of lowest-common-denominator produserism?
Does YouTube improve standards of documentary and other genres -or does it flood such content with a wash of fat frat boys belly dancing and 'you've been framed' type footage?