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What will the world look like after the media is gone?

December 3, 2008 – 9:27 am

Bloggers love to speculate about the death of the media and the death of journalism. They’ve been doing it for years. Big-time bloggers, Jeff Jarvis and Dave Winer, are at it again. A new round of speculation, this time trying to envisage what our world would like if the media did actually die. Dave Winer, [...]

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More on Twitter and the future of news

November 29, 2008 – 8:31 am

Gigaom: “And that’s when I realized that the future of media is being split into two streams: one that consists of raw news that comes like a torrent from sources such as Twitter, mobile messages and photos, the other, from old media. The eyewitness dispatches (and photos) via social media are an adjunct to the [...]

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News fatigue: too much, too shallow

November 20, 2008 – 12:09 pm

Interesting stuff on the impact of information overload from the CJR:
Chief among the findings was that many young consumers craved more in-depth news but were unable or unwilling to get it. “The abundance of news and ubiquity of choice do not necessarily translate into a better news environment for consumers,” concluded the researchers in their [...]

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