Benefits to Institutions:
- Crowd sourcing.
- Institutions can pay less to trained professionals as there will be a reduced amount in empyed trained professionals.
- Institutions cna see what news impacts what audiences the most and present articles accordingly.
Benefits to Audiences:
- Peoples stories can be heard.
- Can gain recognition through UGC and make breakthroughs.
- More choice and people can generate their own news/content.
- There would be more incorrect information published.
- Less censorship.
- Sites could be run by controversial people.
- Social: People are able to have more control in what they read and can socially interact with one another easily compared to before.
- Historical: Prior to new/digital media, people recieved their news through newspapers, radio broadcasts, and TV. Most of the news was limited as not all news stories were able to be shown due to the fact that there was more news then could be presented.
- Economical: As online apps and websites are free, such as Twitter, and Facebook, and YouTube; in order to keep them running, they make their money through advertisements.
- Political: The governement cannot mediate everything that is online as they do not have the same control as they do with broadcast platforms and print platforms.
What impact is new/digital media having on the following:
- News Stories
- People can now create and produce their own news and their own stories.
- Audiences have more option and can select what they want to know and read about rather than what they are shown.
- News is now more accessible and you can receive news more frequently and as soon as it occurs, compared to traditionally waiting for the next days paper or few days even.
- News also is ever changing, people become bored of a story and move on after a while.
- The News Agenda
- People are more in control of what they want to read and what is shown in the news as the news is now primarily based on what people want to hear and know about.
- Audiences are able to comment on articles and now have the ability to voice their opinions; therefore the more relevant a news article is to an audience, the more likely the news article would be presented.
- The role of professionals in the news
- There are fewer and fewer permanent trained staff in organisations.
- News is left unmediated as people can produce their own news and present it far easier than ever.
- Professionals are having to adapt to the availability of new technology and are now having to post articles online.
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