How Connective Media Platforms are Influencing the News and our News Habits

Key Points:

• Customization of mainstream content by the public. This decreases the power of news hierarchies. 
• The role of the editor has been reduced- the power is moving into the public's hands as they are able to decide what they want to read and how they want to share it and respond to it. 
• With new technology comes  new platforms where the public can create, share and comment on their own new- shift from mass audience to networked users
• decentralization of the news 
• Evolution of reporters' writing style to reflect the rhetoric of the media platform. 
• Social networks- has changed the way news is being shared and the way people are responding to it
• Twitter- a place where you can create your own news community and interact with others in that community
• Mobile News- people are accessing news constantly and rapidly. Expectations have also changed, the public wants a more in-depth and personal experience. 
• "Journalists today need to be community organizers, teachers, curators, filters, tool-makers, and collaborators."- "Work in progress." 
• Our concepts of news are changing- as the news becomes more personalized our definition of it does as well. 
• Collaboration of journalists with the public and other journalists has become essential. 
• New Habits: We are no longer getting our movie recommendations or music reviews from traditional news platforms
• Connective media platforms are replacing or upstaging their traditional equivalents
• Advertisers no longer need newspapers- leads to loss of funding
• The public can go straight to the source rather than read something written by a second or third party.

Articles:

Mobile Phones and the #AttackAtSpringValley http://www.freepress.net/blog/2015/10/29/mobile-phones-and-attack-at-spring-valley

Can We Save Journalism? By Peter Fray http://mediashift.org/2016/03/can-we-save-journalism/

Questions:

Do you think that with the advent of connective media platforms that Journalism has changed for the better?

Where do you think we are going next? Now that we have established a networked public through social media sites what is going to be the next obstacle journalism is going to have to adapt to?

References:

Fungible by Stijn Debrouwere http://debrouwere.org/2012/05/04/fungible/ 

Networked A Contemporary History of News in Transition by: Adrienne Russell