Over the past decade, traditional outlets such as newspapers and evening television news have been supplemented, and sometimes supplanted, by 24-hour news stations and cable news channels, online news sites and blogs. Historian Judy Daubenmier focuses on this new media landscape in her new book, Project Rewire.
Project Rewire begins with a thoughtful essay by Daubenmier on "how the media got disconnected.'' The piece analyzes problems such as concentration of ownership, self-censorship and bias. The second part of the book provides concrete examples of media criticism and commentary by bloggers, with topics ranging from John Kerry's manicures and George W. Bush's National Guard service to Hurricane Katrina and the Downing Street memo on the war in Iraq.(The Ann Arbor News)
De nya medierna, t ex bloggar, uppvisar som Daubenmier säger, en helt ny form: "I liked the way he [en av bloggarna hon undersökt] showed how the story developed during the day. It's a different product than what you get when you read a story in the newspaper, which is a finished product. Here you see the story develop throughout the day, dynamic. That's one of the strengths of the Internet." Hur ska vi handskas med det i framtida historiska studier egentligen? Dags att läsa om, tja Marshall McLuhan kanske? Eller Habermas? Eller...
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Eller varför inte ta del av utvecklingen och börja blogga?Fast det klart, då kan ju kollegor läsa mina outvecklade och spontana tankar och jag kanske aldrig får den där extra ordinarie lektorstjänsten som kommer lysas ut i Östersund när jag fyller 59 år...
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