“We’re still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution”
– Scott Cook
For the upcoming Media 1 Project Brief 4, a group assignment was set where we were given a media topic to research, explore and share. My group will be focusing on ‘Technology’ and will examine the pros and cons of social media in regard of its interactions with news media.
Some ideas and questions that we have concocted include:
– has the use of social media made journalists lazy? Because they no longer have to go out of their way to find news and stories like they used to before the Internet became widespread?
– social media has affected the way political events, such as elections, play out
– everything is public
– the fact that blogging is a profession (you can get paid for simply sharing your opinion)
– news is more accessible to everybody and this is great because people can become more educated on social issues and current affairs
– and how biased news media can be because it targets audience expectations
Here are the people in my group
We’re called ‘The Technologic Trio’
Check them out, cause they’re pretty cool: