Ever since social media happened, everything else started
happening and there’s no sign of stopping. Whether it was new discoveries,
celebrity siting or just personal news, things are just coming and coming from
everywhere and anywhere.
When it comes to journalism, social media has provided it
with various dimension that has enhanced as well as degraded several aspects of
it to certain extend.
I definitely believe social media has served as a medium for
people to get straightforward information as quick as a wink. Furthermore, it
has provided people with several genres of news, which has made
information-sharing time efficient and interested. Likewise, journalism through
social media has experienced global audience and this fulfills the goal of
informing general public. Furthermore,
it has provided a global platform to share their personal thoughts on several
issues. Apart from the mainstream journalism, blogging is pushing people to be
creative and share their personal thoughts and interests.
Similarly, from pages and pages of news to 140 characters to
just images, it has been approaching the minimalistic route to convey messages.
Hence, it is evolving.
Likewise, social media has it own unavoidable drawbacks.
Despite the fact that its enhancing information sharing, it is causing harm
towards the art of journalist is writing. It takes time and effort to write
pieces especially literary articles. And when such articles go online rather
than on paper, it somehow looses it importance. The content is there for sure
but it feels a bit different. Likewise, for news houses, the only thing that’s
vital is to publish breaking news as fast as the can, the quality of work is no
that important. Likewise, such news houses look more into the fan base of the
writers and their fluency in “multimedia-language” than any other things. Of
course they care about the writing but its not when it used to be print
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This has definitely given journalism field a new dimension,
which is altering every single day. It is a brilliant space but people don’t
realize that it comes with a lot of strings attached. From piracy to
identification theft to robbery, social media is a very frightening place to
be. People don’t realize it and use it haphazardly but it can lead to serious
consequences.
Here is a links to look into more statistics of its scary
side:
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2010/05/some-scary-social-networking-stats/index.htm
Similarly, the following link provides data on “social media
revolution”
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