Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Week 5, Meikle A, News on the Web
News on the Web can be thought of as 'informational news' and perhaps a higher involvement of the news. On the Web there is the ability to have every kind of news story in the world on there to read by looking through various websites, which can hold huge amounts of information. This differs to the television news whereby you can only know 'what you have been told'. Therefore proposing the Web to have higher involvement of the news and furthermore in Meikles analysis the audience have 'transformed into researchers'. I agree with this to an extent because whilst watching the news you only hear what 'they want to tell you' and i don't think you can be classified as a researcher. However online you have to 'search' for the news and can pick topics or storylines which grab your attention in particular. Therefore I would suggest that what constitutes news on the web is huge amount of data available whereby a form of research is taken place and the audience picks their desired 'topic' headline of news.
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do you think that online news carries the same authority as tv news? The whole mis-en-scene of telly news gives the sense of authority, do you think this is lost online? I think that like Meikle says everybody has the ability to be a journalist on sites such as Indymedia, but do you think this makes it lose credibility? If you think about Wikipedia, it is not allowed to be used in referencing in academic work do you think that online news has the same affect?
ReplyDeleteI have tried to answer some of your questions on the other post, but i think the journalist one fits here well. In my own opinion i do think that the fact 'anyone can be a journalist' and 'anyone' can contribute does make it lose is credibility. This is just for me, i tend to question what is written on the web a lot more. This may be because i can't see where it is coming from? I suppose you could say that for books though. Maybe its just that its new to me then, so i don't trust it unlike TV news which i have brought up seeing and trusting and books which we have always been told are 'reliable' sources (to an extent). Do you trust the web for facts and information?
ReplyDeleteYeah, there is something alot more credible about reading a book, than what there is reading a website. It could be because of the history that books have and you know the author has worked hard to get it published, compared to someone just writing their thoughts on a blog. I probably trust tv news more than internet news, despite the arguments about whether tv news is biased etc. You know that the journalists on tv have been trained in their career, so you kind of feel trust in that they know what they are talking about!
ReplyDeleteI think the reason a book seems more credible is because you can hold it, it has been printed and is hard to change. Like you have both stated, it is hard to trust online because content is involved in produsage and is continuous.
ReplyDeleteI do try and trust the Internet for facts and information, but as we have all acknowledged, it is a lot easier to trust websites which we KNOW are legitimate. When I google search something I am never sure whether to trust it or not.
The thing about Wikipedia is that, yes anyone can change the information, but for some reason I do still trust it. If you go onto a less academic open website then you often find immature, rude and silly content, however with Wikipedia it seems as though the people producing content actually know what they are talking about and there is no ridiculous and immature language, therefore making it, to me, believable.
However this doesnt change the fact that the content has not been proven to be correct and therefore can not be used in referencing in academic work.
Do any of you find that sometimes you feel you can trust Wikipedia?
now to be honest i think i would trust inet news rather than tv news. when i say inet news i either mean the bbc or google etc. sometimes on the tv we have all learnt in previous seminars that they act on what is happening to create more drama and more tension, and sometimes making a big deal out of something that sometimes doesnt need to be. however with the inet what you see is what you get.
ReplyDeleteI agree that there are more internet sites delivering news than TV channels, which therefore allows us to "research", as Meikle states, and means we can find more stories and decide for ourselves which is most credible.
ReplyDeleteHowever, does that mean that the Internet news sites are NOT creating more tension? Claire is right that on TV they create a mis-en-scene to enhance the stories but this can still be done online with photos and the way in which a story is written.
Rememeber also that now, on many news websites, there are videos avaliable to watch so that you still see the news in the form of TV.