Media Magazine
1) Looking over the article as a whole, what are some of the positive developments due to the internet highlighted by Bill Thompson?Some of the key notes that helped positive developments is the way that internet allows a user to communicate and send / receive data to thousands of different computer users. And the way that we can send what ever data we want through the internet is a strength and a weakness at the same time. Networking these days are invisible and seamless, which allows users the ability to express themselves, social justice, rather then surveillance and control.
2) What are the negatives or dangers linked to the development of the internet?Since networking is seamless and undetected, you can send any form of data to thousands of other users. Which doesn't stop users to send inappropriate or illegal data to other users. Spam and abuse is a main negative of the internet but as time passes users are more of aware and security gets more developed to protect users.
3) What does ‘open technology’ refer to? Do you agree with the idea of ‘open technology’?The idea of ‘openness’ lies at the centre of this debate: I believe that if we want an open society based around principles of equality of opportunity, social justice and free expression, we need to build it on technologies which are themselves ‘open’, and that this is the only way to encourage a diverse online culture that allows all voices to be heard.
Regulation and openness is some challenges of the future of the internet. Openness comes with a price of how it easy it is to change the rule. Giving more privileges to user due to openness can face certain consequences. Ever since the internet started big company's tried to take over and regulate the internet. For example in China, the internet is regulated more then ever, with China trying monitor contents in the internet and what the population is watching. Bill Thompson does outline certain questions. so how can the network help there? We know you want to understand the world and engage with it, so how do we deliver news media that can operate effectively online and still make money? We’ve come a long way in the last 30 years, but we have a long way to go. It will be your choices that shape tomorrow’s network.
5) Where do you stand on the use and regulation of the internet? Should there be more control or more openness? Why?
My opinion is to give the users of the internet more control of their choices on what to watch and what to post. In today's internet, media is regulated with a strict guideline. And my opinion is that it should be more opened to users to post what they want but not upset or offend anybody in the process.
Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody
1) How does Shirky define a ‘profession’ and why does it apply to the traditional newspaper industry?
2) What is the question facing the newspaper industry now the internet has created a “new ecosystem”?
The web created a new ecosystem. We've long regarded the newspaper as a sensible object because it has been such a stable one, but there isn't any logi-cal connection among its many elements: stories from Iraq, box scores from the baseball game, and ads for everything from shoes to real estate all exist side by side in an idiosyn- cratic bundle. What holds a newspaper together is primarily the cost of paper, ink, and distribution; a newspaper is what- ever group of printed items a publisher can bundle together and deliver profitably. The corollary is also true: what doesn't go into a newspaper is whatever is too expensive to print and deliver. The old bargain of the newspaper-world news lumped in with horoscopes and ads from the pizza parlor- has now ended. The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from "Why publish this ?" to "Why not?"
3) Why did Trent Lott’s speech in 2002 become news?
Trent Lott, the senior senator from Mississippi and then majority leader, gave a speech at Strom Thurmond's hundredth birthday party. Thurmond, a Republican senator from South Carolina, had recently retired after a long political career, which had included a 1948 run for president on an overtly segregationist platform. Two weeks later, having been rebuked by President Bush and by politicians and the press on both the right and the left for his comment, Lott announced that he would not seek to remain majority leader in the new Congress.
4) What is ‘mass amateurisation’?
Mass amateurisation refers to giving a form of media to non-professionals producers or media creators. They use these form of media to solve problems or unleash capabilities which is sought for in professional institutions.
5) Shirky suggests that: “The same idea, published in dozens or hundreds of places, can have an amplifying effect that outweighs the verdict from the smaller number of professional outlets.” How can this be linked to the current media landscape and particularly ‘fake news’?
This can tie to fake news since now with new technology, news media outlets and user discussions is occurred online. With more discussion and more arguments this can affect other outlets and reach to a bigger outlet.
6) What does Shirky suggest about the social effects of technological change? Does this mean we are currently in the midst of the internet “revolution” or “chaos” Shirky mentions?
Because social effects lag behind technological ones by decades, real revolutions dont involve an orderly transition from point A to point B. Rather, they go from A through a long period of chaos and only then reach B. In that chaotic period, the old systems get broken long before new ones become stable. In the late 1400s scribes existed side by side with publishers but no longer performed an irreplaceable service. Despite the replacement of their core function, however, the scribes' sense of themselves as essential remained undiminished.
7) Shirky says that “anyone can be a publisher… [and] anyone can be a journalist”. What does this mean and why is it important?
Trent Lott, the senior senator from Mississippi and then majority leader, gave a speech at Strom Thurmond's hundredth birthday party. Thurmond, a Republican senator from South Carolina, had recently retired after a long political career, which had included a 1948 run for president on an overtly segregationist platform. Two weeks later, having been rebuked by President Bush and by politicians and the press on both the right and the left for his comment, Lott announced that he would not seek to remain majority leader in the new Congress.
Because social effects lag behind technological ones by decades, real revolutions dont involve an orderly transition from point A to point B. Rather, they go from A through a long period of chaos and only then reach B. In that chaotic period, the old systems get broken long before new ones become stable. In the late 1400s scribes existed side by side with publishers but no longer performed an irreplaceable service. Despite the replacement of their core function, however, the scribes' sense of themselves as essential remained undiminished.
If anyone can be a publisher, then anyone can be a journalist. And if anyone can be a journalist, then journalistic privilege suddenly becomes a loophole too large to be borne by society. Journalistic privilege has to be applied to a minority of people, in order to preserve the law's ability to uncover and prosecute wrongdoing while allowing a safety valve for investigative reporting.
8) What does Shirky suggest regarding the hundred years following the printing press revolution? Is there any evidence of this “intellectual and political chaos” in recent global events following the internet revolution?
a period of intellectual and political chaos that ended only in the 1600s. This issue became more than academic with the arrest of Josh Wolf, a video blogger who refused to hand over video of a 2005 demonstration he observed in San Francisco. He served 226 days in prison, far longer than Judith Miller, before being released. In one of his first posts after regaining his freedom, he said, "The question that needs to be asked is not 'Is Josh Wolf a journalist?' but 'Should journalists deserve the same protections in federal court as those afforded them in state courts?" This isn't right, though, because making the assumption that Wolf is a journalist in any uncomplicated way breaks the social expectations around journalism in the first place. The question that needs to be asked is, "Now that there is no limit to those who can commit acts of journalism, how should we alter journalistic privilege to fit that new reality?"
9) Why is photography a good example of ‘mass amateurisation’?
As the costs of camera technology fell, more and more amateurs gained accessibility to photography technology. Now average people could shoot, develop and edit their own photographs in their own time. Previously anyone taking photographs would have to have relied on the institutional model.
10) What do you think of Shirky’s ideas on the ‘End of audience’? Is this era of ‘mass amateurisation’ a positive thing? Or are we in a period of “intellectual and political chaos” where things are more broken than fixed?
a period of intellectual and political chaos that ended only in the 1600s. This issue became more than academic with the arrest of Josh Wolf, a video blogger who refused to hand over video of a 2005 demonstration he observed in San Francisco. He served 226 days in prison, far longer than Judith Miller, before being released. In one of his first posts after regaining his freedom, he said, "The question that needs to be asked is not 'Is Josh Wolf a journalist?' but 'Should journalists deserve the same protections in federal court as those afforded them in state courts?" This isn't right, though, because making the assumption that Wolf is a journalist in any uncomplicated way breaks the social expectations around journalism in the first place. The question that needs to be asked is, "Now that there is no limit to those who can commit acts of journalism, how should we alter journalistic privilege to fit that new reality?"
In today's society. I feel like things are more broken then fixed. Any un-professional producer, user, journalist can go to any outlet to share their ideas or go to social media and give their opinion. Depending on what it is it can offend people and cause stir. So unless regulations can help or technology change, its just going to a down ward spiral.
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