Sunday, October 11, 2009
youtube and digital journalism
After looking at some of the blogs of my classmates I noticed a couple of them mentioned youtube. It hit me like a bull's-eye, of course this is a prime example of digital journalism and where its heading. Up until now I've been discussing digital journalism as it applies to online newspapers and blogs, etc. But video journalism is definately a type of digital journalism. It has the characteristics like many-to-many, its unfiltered, and its audience controls. It also got me thinking that this is the way journalism could be moving digitally. Videos are becoming more and more popular than articles. Videos get the word out like television but it allows for more disussion with comment sections and the audience controls it instead of how tv execs control the tv.
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I agree with you 100%. When you hear the word Digital Journalism, you just automatically go toward the journalism part and things that are more related to the "old form" of journalism and not the use of youtube. Thanks for opening up my eyes too.
ReplyDeleteExactally... many of us believe that when we hear Journalism we think of newspapers and news stations and blogs. We don't think of YouTube being a part of the digital journalism world. YouTube has grown so much in the past year it is unbelievable. If I really like a part of a television episode I will go to YouTube, and even now I am getting ready to do a Speech in one of my communications courses and I am going to use a YouTube video to help guide my speech.
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