Futures: The Dawn of a New Journalism - Can You Dig It?

This week it was our turn to present; Myself, Mitch and Nikki took to the floor and blew away a captivated audience. We were discussing New Technologies and their impact on Journalism today and its future.

I began with an outline of what is happening and how the new technologies are creating a 'New Journalism.' It was an outline and an introduction as to what is really happening. I was able to discuss with enthusiasm and excitement the brilliance of some of these new technologies including web 2.0 and CIT's (this is just an abbreviation for Convergent Information Technologies). It was a very intriguing research area that seems to continually open more doors to more and more questions.

I moved away from these for a while and addressed the issues surrounding the death of the newspaper and the other traditional forms of news media; here is a little snippet of my presentation: ‘The major difference today with CIT’s is that it’s not just a fear of newspapers that is being predicted but the end of both television and radio journalism as well; when you can go online and access what you want when you want it, or when breaking news is just a click away – why would we cling to these ‘old’ forms of news?’

There was also some discussion regarding the new terms and technologies that have become a part of journalism today; these include blogging, tweeting and the most recently coined term 'living story.'

As a group we had decided to follow the Kyle and Jackie O story, regarding the incident. I was focusing on Kyle's tweeting which seems to have slowed of late.

Mitchell then took it away dealing with more in depth research across the journalism platforms. He identified the different representations of different stories for different audiences and across platforms, can you believe that sometimes a story is just taken and placed with sometimes the same, and sometimes a different heading, from a newspaper to a website?

Mitch provided some pretty brilliant examples of this regarding Kyle and Jackie O.

Our presentation was brought to a close by a very strong and thorough presentation from Nikki which delved more into one of these CIT's - blogging.

She identified why this phenomena is so gripping and provided examples of where to find blogs and their purpose - it was fantastic.

Overall I think that as a group we were very pleased with the result of our presentation.

It is a very exciting time in the journalistic environment in which we are seeing a lot of change and can hopefully embrace some of it in order to create the best news for everyone.

Can You Dig It?