For each source, answer the following:
-Briefly summarize the most valuable points in the source.
-Do you agree with the perspective that the writer chose? Why?
-What are the most interesting questions about your topic raised by this source? How does this source help you to expand your understanding or investigation of this topic? Show that you are thinking deeply about challenging questions related to your topic.
-What are the current changes (in technology or society) that are affecting your topic? Also, what are likely to be important questions or changes related to your topic in the future? (For example, if your topic is the "digital divide," you might talk about what is likely to alter the digital divide in the future, whether you think it will grow larger, etc.)
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090614/1849365226.shtml
This website shares the opinion on digital journalism vs print journalism, that digital ends up being better. This article sites another scholarly article, and includes a video from the Daily show on the issue. Both sources agree that print journalism is an extremely old method of journalism. By the time the printed newspaper gets to readers, the news is old, in that it happend in previous days. While digital journalism is usually written about events of the day. I agree with this position in that it is true, that the news in the newspaper, is technically old news, it did not happen today. In today's technological world, real time information can make the difference between large amounts of money and/or life changing decisions. However, I feel like print journalism is still necessary in that there are many people who do not use the internet very much. Also, newspapers allow people to read about the news in places that they might not get internet service.
After reading this source, I would like to know what other reasons do newspapers, such as the New York Times, have for continuing to print newspapers, especailly since they are losing money. What are the costs of digital journalism versus print journalism? How many people prefer print journalism? Also, those who print newspapers stated that it allowed for verification of facts,; however, it was proved that verification is not always completed. What seperates news that does get verified and corrected from news that receives neither? What will happen when the internet becomes accessible and used by virtually everyone? Will newspapers stop being printed and go completely digital?
This article is written by a woman whose father predicted the huge transition from print media to digital journalism. He tried to warn many journalist and even headed the Courier Journal's electronic edition. The women saw proof of her father's prediction when a newspaper she subscribes to said they would only deliver the newspaper 3 times a week, opposed to every day. I agree with the father that this change could have been predicted, and that all those who noticed, definately would have profited. It is a cheaper and "greener" way to receive the news. This article makes me wonder, how many other journalists saw and beleived this change was coming? Was the Courier Journal the first paper to go digital? If not, then which newspaper was? And how did the first newspapers to go digital benefit from their pioneering?
This site shows an experiment on people's preferences between reading their news from a tangible Post paper, and reading it online. The charts and graphs suggest that at the time of this study most people still preferred to read a print newspaper. And if Post.com were elimiated those who already read the print newspaper would not be affected. However, those who did get their news from Post.com, felt that if it were eliminated they would switch to a newspaper that did offer news from a website, instead of just reading the print copy. This study shows that while many people still read print news, those who prefer digital, look for that in a newspaper overall. It is probably due to accessibility. If this is the case, then I agree. Today, however, I feel that the number of people who read their news online has increased. It is possible that the number is still less than those who read print, but I feel like a lot more people prefer digital journalism than before. This article leaves me wondering how much do people take digital news for granted? Would as many people know what was going on in the world if journalism hadn't gone digital?
