[…] Not surprisingly, the conventional news organisations that grew up in the past 170 years are having a lot of trouble adjusting. The mass-media era now looks like a relatively brief and anomalous period that is coming to an end. But it was long enough for several generations of journalists to grow up within it, so the laws of the mass media came to be seen as the laws of media in general, says Jay Rosen. “And when you’ve built your whole career on that, it isn’t easy to say, ‘well, actually, that was just a phase’. That’s why a lot of us think that it’s only going to be generational change that’s going to solve this problem.” A new generation that has grown up with digital tools is already devising extraordinary new things to do with them, rather than simply using them to preserve the old models. Some existing media organisations will survive the transition; many will not. […] bron
Ben het niet overal mee eens, maar het artikel laat wel leuk zien hoe de geschiedenis zich weer eens herhaalt. Een deel van de huidige media rent steeds harder achter de feiten aan, en het mag ondertussen duidelijk zijn dat het onzin is om nieuwe media en moderne platforms weg te schrijven als evil tools. Blijf het bizar vinden hoeveel kansen zelfs de grote jongens daar nog laten liggen.