Open AccessREVIEW: A fresh take on journalism authority
Author(s) -
Verica Rupar
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v19i2.231
Subject(s) - journalism , publishing , scholarship , the internet , project commissioning , media studies , technical journalism , citizen journalism , sociology , phone , public relations , political science , law , world wide web , computer science , linguistics , philosophy
The implications of the internet for journalism practice have been widely explored in journalism studies scholarship, and interest in new forms of digital journalism practice has outgrown interest in the analysis of traditional forms of news production. It has been some time since journalists lost their exclusive right in deciding what publics see, hear and read. In a digital environment, information is no longer scarce or hard to produce. Having a smart phone easily opens a door to publishing and the potential of new technologies to create a situation where everybody could be a journalist seems endless.