“When you did journalism before the Internet, you controlled the time. Nobody could read what you wrote till the paper came out the next day. Now, you could put something on the Internet, Twitter or Facebook, and you’ll get an immediate reaction…like someone is reading it almost instantly.” – Jeff Legwold
Being born in 1985, I grew up knowing how to use the new media of the past fifteen years. It came natural to me because the technology was part of my generation’s everyday lives. The transition from old media to the new media began in the late 1980s, when compact discs (CD’s) and computers came out. Then in the early ‘90s came the Internet and cellular phones, but the real transformation in technology communications has definitely been in the past fifteen years.
Being born in 1985, I grew up knowing how to use the new media of the past fifteen years. It came natural to me because the technology was part of my generation’s everyday lives. The transition from old media to the new media began in the late 1980s, when compact discs (CD’s) and computers came out. Then in the early ‘90s came the Internet and cellular phones, but the real transformation in technology communications has definitely been in the past fifteen years.
Since it is so simple in the world today for people to communicate and that I plan to be a sports journalist someday, I decided my senior paper would be about how technology communications have affected and changed sports journalism in the past fifteen years and what the future is for journalism. Before naming the communications used today that author Dan Gillmor discussed in his book, We The Media, I must talk about his book and how to tie it in with sports journalism.
In the second chapter of We The Media, Gillmor informs the public, especially journalists, about the new technologies of today so they won’t be left behind with the communication of tomorrow. Before the emergence of the Internet in the 1990s, Gillmor explained,
"We’ve essentially had two distinct means of communication: one-to-many (books, newspapers, radio, and TV) and one-to-one (letters, telegraph, and telephone). The Internet, for the first time, gives us many-to-many and few-to-few communications."
What Gillmor is trying to say is the Internet has expanded the way for people, and in this case sports journalists, to communicate in so many ways that communication has gone to another level. We now have technologies like e-mails, blogs, mobile phones, text-messaging, Facebook and now Twitter for journalists to communicate with athletes and coaches anywhere in the world and at any time.
What Gillmor is trying to say is the Internet has expanded the way for people, and in this case sports journalists, to communicate in so many ways that communication has gone to another level. We now have technologies like e-mails, blogs, mobile phones, text-messaging, Facebook and now Twitter for journalists to communicate with athletes and coaches anywhere in the world and at any time.
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