Comments on: What do we call this new form of journalism and media?

By: Chris Gordon

Chris Gordon — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:59:03 +0000

The merging of social networks and journalism… How about social-ism? I believe the hyphen clears up any confusion.

By: Steve Woodward

Steve Woodward — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:25:23 +0000

It’s a fun question. I side with those who say journalism is journalism and news media are news media. We are people who transmit information and opinions about current events, in contrast to historians and futurists. Though newspapers have been around for 400 years, the concept of “professional” journalism didn’t arise until Walter Lippmann began introducing the idea in the 1920s. Benjamin Franklin pointedly called himself a printer, even though he would be welcomed into the “professional” journalism priesthood today. Maybe all of us — journalists, bloggers, radio talk-show hosts, etc. — should simply be called scribes or digiscribes to avoid the loaded words media and journalism. They all fall along a wide spectrum of information providers from very good to very bad — that’s all.

By: Kevin Sablan

Kevin Sablan — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:01:54 +0000

How about “participatory journalism?” Just found this B.T. (Before Twitter) University of Hong Kong paper about that very topic …
http://jmsc.hku.hk/faculty/alih/publications/amic-2004-wikipedia-rc2-wtitle.pdf

By: bhamini nandakumar

bhamini nandakumar — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:04:10 +0000

‘Digital Media’ is an option.

The fact that journalism and journalists are using new tools to do the job does not change their whole job itself.
The applications and the websites mentioned are simply new ways of doing the same thing : communicating.

By: Tim Lloyd

Tim Lloyd — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:26:53 +0000

I agree with Alfred’s comment.
Media is media in 2009. The sooner we all get into this mindset, the more quickly things will progress and the bigger the audiences will become.

By: Mike Krautch

Mike Krautch — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:58:42 +0000

You know I think we should waste the next 2 years thinking about this and let the next wave pass us by. Or steal my title and title your new little movement “slug media” and call it good.. Buzz words are for people who don’t get it.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:17:43 +0000

I’d have to say that the term “multimedia” bugs me for similar reasons.

What about “pervasive media” or “ubiquitous media”?

By: Alfred Hermida

Alfred Hermida — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:11:16 +0000

The problem with new media is that it a generational definition. New media is “new” to my generation and beyond. The Internet didn’t exist when I went to university 20 years ago. We barely had computers. But to the 18-year-olds in my undergrad class, new media is not new. To them, it is just media.

By: Cassandra Gallagher

Cassandra Gallagher — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:11:38 +0000

You say profession is defined as “the way in which it is more than just a job.” Blogging either independatly or journalistically may be unrelated to one’s job, but maybe that description fits now more than ever.

Online media may not always be someone’s “job”, but can be considered more than that just because it is being used to reshape the entire industry. It will become more than that because journalists will not only have to transform their job but themeselves too.

Someone told me that being a journalist these days is kind of being like a backpack journalist, but with the added bonus of being proficient in the digital world too (in fact I’m pretty sure I’ve got a computer in my backpack right now…).

So in that sense it may still be journalists who shape this new industry. I think the challenge will be in diferentiating from the community they’ve immersed themselves in.

Maybe we can call it Media Backpacking. (eeeeeeerrrrr….or not…)

By: Fátima Mariano

Fátima Mariano — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:48:24 +0000

Hello to everybody!

I’m a portuguese journalist and a diary reader of this blog. I also have a blog. This week, I started to read Rebecca Blood’s “The Weblog Handbook” and, like she says,journalism is quite diferent from writting in a blog. As a journalist, I’ve got to follow some rules and I have a responsability that I dont’t have as a blog writer.

(P.S. – Sorry about my english)