New media, old journalistic work routines

Pont Sorribes, Carles; Cortiñas Rovira, Sergi

New media, old journalistic work routines

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Pont Sorribes C, Cortiñas-Rovira S. New media, old journalistic work routines. Journal of mass communication & journalism. 2013; 3(5):e142. DOI: 10.4172/2165-7912.1000e142

Abstract

The new information technology has changed the journalism. Web 2.0 has broken the exclusivity of traditional media as transmitters of information. The advent of technological advances leads, as Castells says, to the creation of a network of networks, the so-called network society. In this society there is a new user model: “prosumers”. They are proactive consumers of information, as many scholars reveal. This change is the big Achilles heel of journalism and traditional media.