Open AccessCHALLENGES OF MOBILE JOURNALISM IN DIGITAL MEDIA AGE
Author(s) -
Dušan Aleksić
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
media studies and applied ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2683-5355
DOI - 10.46630/msae.1.2021.03
Subject(s) - interactivity , journalism , context (archaeology) , computer science , multimedia , technological convergence , mobile media , new media , digital media , relation (database) , technical journalism , order (exchange) , digital era , sociology , world wide web , media studies , telecommunications , the internet , business , paleontology , finance , database , biology
Owing to the constant technology improvement and innovation, new ways of reception and creation of media content have developed, leading to the redefining of known communication processes. In this new digital media age, characterized by new features such as convergence, mobility and interactivity, mobile journalism emerged as a new journalistic form-challenging relation between creators and recipients of media content. Even though the idea of user-generated media content that can be instantly shared and broadcasted using small mobile devices sounds like a multi-beneficial concept, this model still faces many challenges. In practice, numerous questions have arisen, such as ethics, reliability and quality of such content as well as acceptance and implementation into professional newsrooms. Therefore, the aim of this article is to review an academic approach to this topic, backed by practical examples, in order to place mobile journalism into a complex modern media system and evaluate its potential in the context of future development.