News and journalism are in the midst of upheaval. How does news publishing change when a newspaper sells as few as 300,000 copies but its website attracts 31 million visitors? The internet is not simply allowing faster, wider distribution of material: digital technology is demanding transformative change. Journalism needs to be rethought on a global scale and remade to meet the demands of new conditions.
Out of Print examines the past, present and future for a fragile industry battling a "perfect storm" of falling circulations, reduced advertising revenue, rising print costs and...
News and journalism are in the midst of upheaval. How does news publishing change when a newspaper sells as few as 300,000 copies but its website a...
The human race now creates, distributes and stores more information than at any other time in history. Frictionless and cheap digital networks circulate information in ways which either authors or subjects are unable to trace or control. Servers store data which can be found on the world wide web years after it has ceased to be accurate or relevant to its original use. These developments have given rise to a movement promoting a 'right to be forgotten': an argument that freedom of expression should be balanced by a right to erase information which affects an individual, under certain...
The human race now creates, distributes and stores more information than at any other time in history. Frictionless and cheap digital networks circula...