The sailors and the media
This rather strange title probably make less sense. However it does. I started to think about the new media and what the purpose of it is. I thought of the following analogy:
Sailors aren’t afraid of storms, they learn to live with them, learn to handle them and/or build better ships. The same can be said about wars. They will come, but we will need to learn how to deal with them.
I am not naïve, but I am as said so many times before optimistic. There is a way.
Yes, citizen journalism coupled with the communications technology of the 2000s is a storm for the traditional MSM. However, I am sure that newspapers viewed radio as a storm just as radio viewed TV. Further, 24 hour cable news networks were also disruptive even to radio and TV. Have any of these types of media vanished? No. They coexist, but they must incorporate some of the advantages of new and disruptive movements. While social media will revolutionize how news and information is dispersed, it probably will not eliminate more traditional forms. A large shake-up is in order, but social media will likely augment — not replace — traditional media.
Comment by Steve — August 8, 2006 @ 3:07 am
Interesting analogy.
I have continously said that traditional media and the new media need to co-exist. The new media consist of a symbiosis of the social media and the traditional media. If you read my blogs carefully I have never claimed that the social media is going to take over the scene completely.
Comment by erik — August 8, 2006 @ 4:02 am