W2 – Digital Journalism: Emerging Media and the Changing Horizons of Journalism
Does digital journalism extend down as far to a blogger choosing which articles to post on their site? Interesting question. One that is best answered with a yes, and then a no.
Digital Journalism – An old practice in a new context-a synthesis fo tradition and innovation?
Shovelware – using premade/old content from other media and sticking it on the web
- Digital Media is subject to change/renovation and innovation, unlike print media which has an establish look, feel and brand through fonts and mastheads.
- The web being used as a supplement to TV shows to provide more information, facts and a place to discuss the show
W2 – From Photosetting to XML
‘The global media brands have perfected the presentation of news as a finished and seamless product’
This reading opens with a really good first sentence, but comes across as being obviously dated after that. It speaks of hypertext, and the structure of a story or narrative based on the links within. Clearly a news organisation is not going to link to external sources for a variety of reasons
1 – A commercial organisation won’t want to lose pageviews on their own site
2- A non-commercial organisation won’t want to link to a page that they don’t control, a page which could change or be taken offline at any time.
Both of these hold true for either commerical or non-commercial too.
However good points are made about a story losing its intended meaning by being associated with whatever the user chooses to click on next. Though most news sites now have relevant links and content associated with each story either beneath or next to it. Importantly, these links are never within the story.
Otherwise the reading talks a bit about the technology and standards associated with that technology. Again the age of the article is apparent here as much of what is mentioned is no longer an issue today – broadband, high resolution/color displays and only 2 dominant browsers have put an end to the majority of issues mentioned. Also, news sites are now designed much better than they once were, as with most of the sites on the web.
W1 – ‘Welcome to convergence culture’
Interesting reading. Nice and easy to read as well.
What stands out for me is that at the moment convergence is happening with the content while we seem to have more devices to access that content on. But if you think about it, the content isn’t converging as much as different devices having the new ability to access that same content. For example, using your mobile to access your emails.
Jenkins also points out that convergence is a as much about culture and society as it is about technology. This is a really good observation, because if people aren’t ready to receive movies on their mobile or have access to ondemand movies then the technology is useless.
Convergence is an ongoing process between technology and media, media and consumer, and consumer and technology.
