Essay Draft:

New Communication Technology: Draft for Essay:

The emergence of the Internet Journalist, and the roles bloggers played.

Through this topic I aim to look at how the emergence of technology in the 20th century has brought about new means of communication, and in particular the ways in which communication and media studies have forced the role of journalism onto the internet.

The means of communicating to an audience have developed through the times from journalist’s communicating via newspapers, to radio transmissions, then television, and now journalists communicate with people via the internet. For example all major newspapers, television stations and magazines have websites and online services. Through internet journalism the information being communicated is more easily accessible and can be up-to-date, more so then that of a newspaper or magazine.

However the emergence of the internet journalist has come about strongly due to the whole Web 2.0 concept. The concept now allows for web users to take a more creative approach to internet use and create their own news, and express their own opinions. This new, exciting and creative concept has forced journalists and other news gatherer’s to attempt to compete and interact with internet users and communicate their news in a more technologically savvy way.

Another reason in which journalism was thrust into the internet is due to emergence of the blogger. The blogger not only forced journalism onto the net but has helped many journalists get their works published. The introduction of journalism to the internet led to the creation of niche newsgathering topics. For example a person only interested in sport can view online news, and blogs specifically aimed at sport.

Here however is where the real debate lies, Are Bloggers' indeed Journalists?

The resources I have used to research the topic thus far have included:
Journalism and New media: John V. Pavlik
Online journalism: principles and practices of news for the Web / James C. Foust.
Barons to bloggers: confronting media power / series editor Jonathan Mills.
The online journ@list: using the Internet and other electronic resources / Randy Reddick, Elliot King.
http://blogs.theage.com.au/mediablog/archives/2005/05/when_are_blogge_1.html
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/03-3NRfall/63-64V57N3.pdf