Our world has become just like McLuhan calls it a “global village” where news happening on one side of the world are being transmitted by regular people to the other side of the world within a few minutes. Today, anyone with a smartphone and internet connection can capture news as it is happening and publish it within a few minutes to the general public. According to Clay Shirky, “Because social effects lag behind technological ones by decades, real revolutions don’t involve an orderly transition from point A to point B.” Clay Shirky states that in this new digital age, the boundaries between professional journalists (using hot mediums) and amateurs (using cold mediums) are blurred changing the way traditional journalism has been working for a long time. It is just hard to predict the evolutions caused by technology and I am sure that phone manufacturers did not foresee that this new communication tool could be extended later on to other areas such as photography and editing. In the age of the smartphone and the internet “everybody is a media outlet” and people don’t need to remain restricted to using traditional methods of news reporting and publishing to be professional journalists. Thanks to technology, the reception and delivery of news has changed drastically over the last few decades.
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