Nov 18 2007
We need to start rethinking this whole Web 2.0 thing
This video from a professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University really put into perspective how the Web has changed writing, text, authorship and whole entire list of issues which coincide with journalism.
Most journalists I encounter ostensibly think this “whole social networking thing” is a little too far fetched to have anything to do with actual journalism. However, when you really dig deeper into the anthropological aspects, you start to realize what’s happening is that the whole paradigm of publishing is being flipped upside down. No longer is it a one way route from journalist to reader. It’s become interactive, dynamic and now semantic.
Journalists can no longer ignore the Web. The problem journalism faces now is how it can carve its niche in this world and apply all of the ethical standards and integrity they it has established over the last 100 years, and help shape this new world.
