Jeff Jarvis’ explanation of the “press-sphere”
leads me to believe that we are all part of it.
Through the internet everyone from business marketers to bloggers can
post what they see as news. He uses four
diagrams (I say four, because I can’t see the first one) to illustrate the
press-sphere, how we perceive, and how a news story develops.
The new press-sphere was born out
of the internet. He stresses how the
press itself isn’t as involved in the press-sphere as one might think. The press mya post the story, but they link to companies and to the government for information. Often times these news stories are circulated by regular people to their peers. He then goes on to draw a press-sphere from the "me" perspective. The diagram shows individuals getting most of their news from peers, companies, and personal searches. The press itself plays a role distant to those around it.
I found his diagram of the news process to be rather confusing. At first glance I was somewhat intimidated by all of the jagged lines pointing out everywhere, and the way the ideas were linked together was a little confusing. After staring at it for a few minutes I managed to glean the general idea. Many ideas and sources come together to make a story, then it is commented on and forwarded to others. I preferred the diagram for the life of a story after it is posted. The bubbles made it easy see bow many different sources come together to further the life of a news story.
www.buzzmachine.com/2008/04/14/the-press-becomes-
I found his diagram of the news process to be rather confusing. At first glance I was somewhat intimidated by all of the jagged lines pointing out everywhere, and the way the ideas were linked together was a little confusing. After staring at it for a few minutes I managed to glean the general idea. Many ideas and sources come together to make a story, then it is commented on and forwarded to others. I preferred the diagram for the life of a story after it is posted. The bubbles made it easy see bow many different sources come together to further the life of a news story.
www.buzzmachine.com/2008/04/14/the-press-becomes-
I found Jarvis' post very confusing as well. I found it confusing because of how he tried to describe his pictures. By looking at the pictures alone, I could understand (kind of) what he was getting at. By the way, you might want to get rid of the white background on some of the words. I had to highlight the page to read your whole post.
ReplyDeleteI fixed it. Something got messed up when I copied the post from my word document. I just had to retype it. Thanks for pointing that out Cassandra. I guess I should have previewed the post.
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