The social and technological transformation in relation

to Digital Journalism

Demi (Zhang Xia 28757327)

overview

• Definition• background• Social transformations: enhancing democratization and citizen journalism changing news’ commercial distribution• technological transformations: increasing the space and speed of news giving birth to mobile journalism • conclusion

Definition • Journalism Adam (1993. p.11) ‘journalism is an invention or a form of expression used to

report and comment in the public media on the events and ideas of the here and now.’

• Digital digital – the Internet (Allan, 2006; Jones and Salter, 2012; Feton, 2009)

Background : digital press is coming

• Time used ‘welcome to cyberspace’ as the cover of the ‘week’s news’ on 1 march 1995(Time, 1995).

• The Independent and Independent on Sunday newspapers ceased print editions in March 2016, leaving only an online edition, BBC news published on 12 February 2016

• the Guardian declared to provide its press only through twitter (Ludovico, 2012).

Time,1995. Cyberspace. Available at: http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19950301,00.html Accessed on: 9th January 2017

Enhancing democratization • Increasing participation

BBC,2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38579126

Audience can write comment or suggestions for the editors or journalists via E-mail, and they can also click the website links provided within news pages to explore more relative information (Jones and Salter, 2012).

Citizen journalism

Matheson, D., & Allan, S. (2009). Digital war reporting. Polity.pp.93

• Offer available news instantly

when blogs or weblogs come into the world, press is currently conveyed with text-messaging, multi-media story-telling, email or blogging and so on (Feton, 2009).

changing news’ commercial distribution

BBC, (2016). Independent to cease as print edition Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35561145 Accessed on: 8th January 2017

The advent of digital press is a profound threat to traditional journalism (Ludovico, 2012).

• The end of paper

Timeliness (News of Tianjin explosion)

• Traditional news media CCTV1(China Central Television 1)

reported this event at 6.00 pm 13 October (Huang, 2016). (the earliest one in traditional news media)

• New media Tencent News reported this

event at 0.33 am 13th October

Tencent News, 2015 Available at: http://news.qq.com/a/20150813/001210.htm Accessed on: 8th January 2017

Speed and space

Digital technology →medium space (websites, social networks, Apps, blogs, mobile phones’ network )

• Feton (2009) : ‘more space equals more news’ (p.559) • The expending space gives the opportunity to present news in more

critical and innovative ways (Gunter, 2003 cited in Feton, 2009).

Mobile journalism Most important explosion videos in

reported news are provide by ordinary people who witness this explosion and use their mobile phone record explosion videos.

BBC, (2015) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-33844084 Accessed on 10th January 2017

Internet-make news from desktop to pocket

Readers can conveniently consume news in anytime and anywhere, just using news Apps (Brainrd, 2010).

CNN NEWS App, 2017. Accessed on 10th January 2017BBC NEWS App,2017. Accessd on 10th January 2017

conclusion• From traditional media environment to the internet, press have

experienced transitions as: enhancing democratization and citizen journalism changing news’ commercial distribution increasing the space and speed of news giving birth to mobile journalism

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Tencent News, 2015 Available at: http://news.qq.com/a/20150813/001210.htm Accessed on: 8th January 2017

Time,(1995). Cyberspace. Available at :http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19950301,00.html Accessed on: 9th January 2017