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The news media in the late twentieth century has become increasingly sensational and irrelevant to the lives of the American public. Network news shows frequently resemble entertainment programs, and major newspapers often fail to serve the interests of their communities. Young people in particular are casting aside newspapers and television news for computerized information and entertainment. In the wake of this shift, the convergence of digital technology, computing, and telecommunications has given rise to a new form of journalism: digital news.
And That's The Way It Will Be argues convincingly that digital journalism has the potential to reverse the decline in prestige of the mainstream media. Focusing on the public's dissatisfaction with traditional communication sources, seasoned journalist Christopher Harper evaluates computers as a means of providing and receiving news and information.
Harper profiles some of the key players in the world of digital journalism including Microsoft, America Online, "The New York Times," "The Chicago Tribune," and Time Warner. He assesses the impact of digital news in poor neighborhoods and the developing world and explores the issues of pornography, privacy, and government regulation of the Internet's news and information system. The volume closes with predictions about the future by presidents of communications organizations, computer experts, network news anchors, software developers, columnists, on-line editors, and Web designers.
The first book to focus exclusively on the nature and future of journalism in an electronic age, And That's The Way It Will Be provides a comprehensive look at the emergence, challenges, and promise of digital news.
"Are they needed? To be sure. The Darwinian industry, industrious though it is, has failed to provide texts of more than a handful of Darwin's books. If you want to know what Darwin said about barnacles (still an essential reference to cirripedists, apart from any historical importance) you are forced to search shelves, or wait while someone does it for you; some have been in print for a century; various reprints have appeared and since vanished."
-Eric Korn, "Times Literary Supplement"
| Preface | p. vii |
| A Road Map to the Information Superhighway | p. 1 |
| The Audience: Who Wants News and Information in a Digital World and Why? | p. 11 |
| The Movers and the Shakers in Digital Journalism | p. 31 |
| Immediacy, Interactivity, and Intimacy | p. 55 |
| Doing Digital Journalism: The Chicago Tribune and TWA 800 | p. 71 |
| All News, All the Time: The Internet and Television | p. 89 |
| Paying for the Digital Age: Advertising, Subscriptions, and Business | p. 105 |
| The Upside of the Internet | p. 117 |
| The Downside of the Internet | p. 133 |
| The Dark Side of the Internet: Pornography and Privacy | p. 147 |
| The Government and the Internet: Freedom of the Press, Copyright, Advertising, and Fraud | p. 171 |
| The Future of the Internet | p. 183 |
| News and Information on the Internet: A Short History | p. 201 |
| Talking Geek: Terms of Internet Endearment | p. 209 |
| Notes | p. 215 |
| A Guide to News about the Internet, the World Wide Web, and Digital News and Information | p. 225 |
| Index | p. 249 |
| About the Author | p. 256 |
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ISBN: 9780814736081
ISBN-10: 0814736084
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 256
Published: 1st September 1999
Publisher: New York University Press
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 20.8 x 14.05
x 1.68
Weight (kg): 0.31
