I think social media has increased the quantity of news not necessarily quality. Before news sources has to choose which stories to report. But now since anyone can be a reporter of news there is an increased on what news is reported. But with every advantage there is a disadvantage, which in this cause is quality. Since anyone can be a news reporter there is a chance the news you receive is either false or facts has been altered. But since there is a huge quantity you can usually figure out what’s true or false.
Social media has changed how people receive their news because of podcast, Youtube, blogs, etc. Before social media you read the newspaper or watch the news of TV. Now a lot of people are getting there news from the internet like from Youtube for example. I watch Philip Defranco and Source fed that report on news that they feel they need to share. I also get my news from newspapers when I have the time but to be honest to get news anytime I want and on a computer is very handy. I knew about the S.O.P.A bill weeks before mainstream news started reporting. This is because people who aren’t link to like the paper or CTV news for example can report when they want, and when it’s relevant. This allows news to be updated as it happens. Take the rebellion in Libya for example. They were using twitter and Youtube to let people around the world know what was happening when reporters were having a hard time getting into the country to report.
So social media has allowed people to increase the quantity and allow them to report when it happens but sometimes quality does get affected but since there is huge amount of news it allows you to weed out what’s true and what’s false. I think social media has changed how we get our information. Newspapers like Toronto Star now post news on websites because it allows easier access and a wider amount of people can view it.
I agree that social media has changed the way that people receive their news and less people are watching the news on TV and reading newspapers. It is more convenient that way. The uprising in Libya was a very great example of when people were using social media and being reporters themselves.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that it had increased the quantity of news but i also think the quality.if it wasn't for social media then a lot of things that happen around the world wouldn't be known, and if they are known the person who is reporting them may not report the entire story, so we would only know partial.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the fact that the quantity of news has gone up, and the quality has gone far, far down. Especially with the fact that you watch a guy on youtube named Phillip Defranco. As much as I completely hate that guy, everybody on youtube wants to be as popular as him and make a lot of money. There are hundreds of thousands of youtube videos emulating his style and reporting the exact same news just to try and get popular. It's almost sickening.
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