Effect of Web 2.0 on Journalism

'Haiti struck by a huge earthquake' - the horrible news that broke down on me initially thing in the morning. My computer system screen was swarming with reside updates, images, videos, fund-raising campaigns Reside from Haiti. The Haiti Earthquake had launched a wave of sympathy, data and help by means of social media such as Facebook, Skype, Flickr, YouTube and Twitter (and real time that too) No press, no radio, no Tv - just pure technology and social media connected me to a catastrophe in some other corner of the world. With traditional communications either damaged or down, social media, connected through cell-telephone or satellite-systems, took up the slack.

So what is so 'different' and 'unusual' about obtaining specifics and reside updates from the world wide web and social media? Did not the same occur for the duration of the Indian Ocean tsunami and the Iran elections? Yes indeed the same occurred and on this note I realized that all of us have started taking web and social media updates and news for granted. I still bear in mind the days when Tv and Newspapers use to be the ONLY way we could know what is happening about the globe and that too all passive - nothing I could contribute even if I had a powerful opinion or valuable information and facts. This shift from regular Journalism to a technologies generated 'new wave of journalism' has altered the way news is delivered and dispersed forever. A silent but radical transform has taken spot - welcome to Journalism two..

The technology I have been talking about is popularly referred to as 'Web two.0', a widely made use of term which describes the 'new second version' of the World Wide Net. Internet two. is not a specific application or technology, but explains a noticeable shift inside Knowledge Technologies to 'user-generated content'. It can be nicely described as a folks-oriented technology movement exactly where the user is the king. From microblogging internet site twitter and the group edited on line reference source Wikipedia to the social networking website Facebook, and even the giant search engine Google, all demand active participation and social interaction. The users no longer can only 'retrieve' specifics but also contribute, modify and share details.

The Web two. revolution has given classic Journalism a enormous shock. As even more and more men and women are going 'online' to get news, the roots of traditional journalism are weakening. Important news channels such as CNN even have a unique section for user generated content material. Journalists have started tweeting, establishing web pages and writing blogs why not? Journalism 2. is the future and they have to have to keep in pace.