The Ever-Changing World of Media

This past week, we learned about the role that citizens have in media. For this to happen, the media has opened up many outlets for their readers participation. It is what the readers do with it that matters.

One option the readers have is to comment on the news stories. They can post their opinion, create an argument, give support, or make a correction if there is an error. To take this to a larger extent, enter into the equation blogging. Instead of just a small comment on a news article, people can create their own blogs to state their opinion on many things that are happening in the news.

Expanding from blogs, citizens can even write their own news article on get them posted on the internet.
On this website, Ohmy News, people can write and post news stories that they may have witnessed or read somewhere else.

Over the course of time, media has continued opening up outlets for citizens to participate in the news throughout the world. Who knows what will come of media in the next ten years and how many more outlets will be opened.

Out With the Old and In With the New

I recently read an article, Bonding with Fans Who Can't Get Enough, which was about professional sports teams who are using mobile devices to generate an increase in their fan club. The Pittsburgh Penguins, a professional hockey team, were facing a decline in their fan support and were desperate to try anything. Jeremy Zimmer, who was the team's director of new media, came up with the idea to have a mobile fan club. This new idea would send text  messages with score updates, statistics, and news. Since this, the Penguins fan base has increased from 14,000 in 2008-20009 to 72,440. This new technique of "new media" has greatly influenced the world that we live in. Over the last few weeks I have been learning about new and social media in my college course. We have discussed the effects that Twitter and LinkedIn, for example, have had on our society; how many citizens are getting their news updates from short "tweets" or applying for jobs by networking online. The main question that I will be consistently addressing in my blog  is how new and social media are changing everything about the media and the way we get our news. I look forward to delving deeper into this issue and sharing what I learn in and out of the classroom with you.