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Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog   yourself for the 21st century or die! Some would rather die than change." Leonard Sweet, cultural historian. 04/12/2004 Entry: "Illustrating the new journalism model"  The second illustration represents a Postmodern media outlet. It sits at one of the millions (billions?) of intersections of a giant web, wherein each person also represents an intersection. There is no top or bottom, and, as such, the term "bottom-up" is really a misnomer. The flow of information runs through the same channels for the big boys' Websites that it does for the end users' emails. It is not just two-way; it's multi-directional. This clearly shows the problem for Modernist media institutions, whose business models are built on the top-down paradigm above.  RSS allows users along the Web to "pull" news from the various media entities, thereby assuming completely the distribution of content. The Internet is truly a communications frontier, and I think we're only beginning to understand its power.
Replies: 2 comments If I were in your audience, my first question would be "So if there's no structure, how do I make a living? Are my credentials, in terms of where I studied or which media outlet employs me, of any value in this new world?" I would appreciate your insights. Thanks. Posted by Katie @ 04/12/2004 11:38 AM CST I don't think one replaces the other altogether, but if I was in your shoes, I'd certainly start putting together a multimedia skill set. The issue of how journalists will make a living in an anarchical model remains to be seen. Most of the conjecture I've read comes from those predisposed to mass market thinking, and I'm not sure any of those rules will apply downstream. Posted by Terry @ 04/12/2004 01:47 PM CST
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