Effects of new media on traditional media

• What changes have affected the traditional media

  • The internet is the basis for news stories, research, citizen journalism
  • Rise in churnalism & infotainment
  • Engagement with interactive aspects
  • Technology expanding “live” coverage such as phone footage
  • Cheaper, mobile and widely accessible digital technologies
• 3 changes in traditional media, Bivens

  1. Shifts in traditional news flow cycles
  2. Heightened accountability
  3. Evolving news values
• Shifts in traditional news flow cycles

  • Citizen journalism has increased the quantity and speed of information
  • Traditional media no longer controls the flow of information and journalists have less time to process news
• Heightened accountability

  Citizen journalism has made traditional media organisations more accountable to the public, who can scrutinise and criticise coverage online if they deem it to be biased, distorted or inaccurate
• Evolving news values

  Immediacy has become prioritised through the use of smartphones
• How has the new media reduced the power of elites in agenda setting?

  Power has been shifted to citizen journalism which has growing power to influence the news that is reported by the traditional media
• How may this power shift from media owners to citizens been exaggerated?

  Bivens: there has only been a slight shift, elite groups still have more power and are adapting

  Philo: Global banking crisis 2008- media channelled public anger towards the bankers and not the owners