Ooh ooh, the social media is such an opportunity. It allows us especially in the media to immediately report on issues or communicate on news story leads and even contact our sources on the spot and even write our stories in real time.
But the challenge is - one has to always verify and test the information we pick up from this platform for its correctness as part of our ethics in the industry. On the other hand the the web has now somehow neutralized the believe or tradition that the media is the watch dog. But with web citizen journalism and web audience nowadays - the media is also being closely watched on its reporting - facts, images, sound and all. I am speaking from a personal experience, whatever I write on my page is tested, almost on daily basis. Some connections on my page write openly while others opt to inbox me. Also, web followers make comments on what the media report on daily - and can even contest an issue right away - that one is almost tempted to respond on the spot - but this is also not that easy because official institutions like media houses have official channels for communication. This is what I am trying to say - I won't really go into the actual issues or case studies to substantiate this post, but yeah, I am basically highlighting the issue of media being watched by non official media web-users too.
This means the traditional way of testing information has now been widened as at times the person reported on is directly following the reports on the web and is able to go for the right of reply on the spot. And again whether to believe what he or she says is another challenge. Interested online users who are most of our times are also keeping an eye on what the media writes, also on what other individuals write. Mmmm, how interesting...each one, especially those who love to write are watching one another and comment on the content we put place on the related platforms.
Then there is also the issue of the opportunity created for everyone including the media to freely use the web - including journalists and media managers (including this post author etc) to also express their personal views on issues not related to what they necessarily do. But, that again can be seriously viewed by some others depending on their opinions and how they see issues - at times bordering on conflict of interest of near threat to media ethics.
It is such a challenge - as the issue of information ethics also slowly crops in. This whole issue is now compelling various web users to have some sorts of guidelines, or policies to help them manage some of their activities on using online platforms.
The information explosion on the web is not only a challenge for the media to manage, for those who have been following the hacking of information in the big set ups - governments and business will understand what I am saying - people stealing identity - or let me say information cloning... mmm, I will end her for now ... and probably come back to this subject later... the whole information revolution on the web is so exciting, but one just has to keep a cool head in handling this...
But the challenge is - one has to always verify and test the information we pick up from this platform for its correctness as part of our ethics in the industry. On the other hand the the web has now somehow neutralized the believe or tradition that the media is the watch dog. But with web citizen journalism and web audience nowadays - the media is also being closely watched on its reporting - facts, images, sound and all. I am speaking from a personal experience, whatever I write on my page is tested, almost on daily basis. Some connections on my page write openly while others opt to inbox me. Also, web followers make comments on what the media report on daily - and can even contest an issue right away - that one is almost tempted to respond on the spot - but this is also not that easy because official institutions like media houses have official channels for communication. This is what I am trying to say - I won't really go into the actual issues or case studies to substantiate this post, but yeah, I am basically highlighting the issue of media being watched by non official media web-users too.
This means the traditional way of testing information has now been widened as at times the person reported on is directly following the reports on the web and is able to go for the right of reply on the spot. And again whether to believe what he or she says is another challenge. Interested online users who are most of our times are also keeping an eye on what the media writes, also on what other individuals write. Mmmm, how interesting...each one, especially those who love to write are watching one another and comment on the content we put place on the related platforms.
Then there is also the issue of the opportunity created for everyone including the media to freely use the web - including journalists and media managers (including this post author etc) to also express their personal views on issues not related to what they necessarily do. But, that again can be seriously viewed by some others depending on their opinions and how they see issues - at times bordering on conflict of interest of near threat to media ethics.
It is such a challenge - as the issue of information ethics also slowly crops in. This whole issue is now compelling various web users to have some sorts of guidelines, or policies to help them manage some of their activities on using online platforms.
The information explosion on the web is not only a challenge for the media to manage, for those who have been following the hacking of information in the big set ups - governments and business will understand what I am saying - people stealing identity - or let me say information cloning... mmm, I will end her for now ... and probably come back to this subject later... the whole information revolution on the web is so exciting, but one just has to keep a cool head in handling this...
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