Thursday, 19 February 2009
Week 5 Meikle part A
The web has an array of writers and commentators alike so there is a much wider range of writers and who they write to. News on the web ranges form local to international news as well as family news. On some websites the seriousness of newspapers is taken away, what is also classed as news also varies it could be anything with the majority of websites not having editors it is up to the author to decide what is newsworthy as well as the audience to be discriminating as what they class as news.
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You certainly seem to have gotten the hang of posting in order and with suitable labels, well done.
ReplyDeleteMuch of the 'pro' produser stuff talks about specialist tech' forums (where research scientists may comment upon, or initiate threads of posts) or alternative social activists networks where campaigners 'on the ground' discuss and correct each other with first-hand experience.
But the vast majority of people never see that sort of stuff do they? The sites promoted offline are mainly those promoted by/in trad' media -and paid for by capitalist advertising. These then get most visits, and that puts them at the top of Google's search returns, which sets the models for what becomes 'successful'? And copy-cat services spring up.
YouTube and other 'gift' economy sites do provide 'break throughs' to mass exposure -but usually for the funny, quirky, just plain weird end of culture -not the socially/politically radical/insightful stuff that is usually used as models?
When something does emerge 'virally' from the 'sea of stuff', it is immediately taken up and used to sell 'old culture' (think of Cadbury's eyebrows -over the years ther'e have been many such TY inspired 'innovative' adverts).