The shift from highly centralized corporations to distributed, networked “clouds” of micro-businesses is a hallmark of the Internet age, and it finds its expression most clearly in the rise of social media. Social media services can best be thought of as ad hoc organizations of contributors providing media content of some sort over the Web. The variety of such services is stunning. Among them, blogging represents one of the most immediate threats to traditional journalism, to the extent of likely supplanting it completely within the next decade.
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The Rise and Fall of Traditional Journalism, Part 3
Posted by: Kurt Cagle June 1, 2009 07:00 AMThe shift from highly centralized corporations to distributed, networked “clouds” of micro-businesses is a hallmark of the Internet age, and it finds its expression most clearly in the rise of social media. Social media services can best be thought of as ad hoc organizations of contributors providing media content of some sort over the Web. The variety of such services is stunning. Among them, blogging represents one of the most immediate threats to traditional journalism, to the extent of likely supplanting it completely within the next decade.