News reporting on different platforms, in terms of newsgathering and distribution: Examining the case of The Independent

Year 2016, Issue: 1, 40 - 49, 01.09.2016

Çise Ayhan

Abstract

indicated that technological progress and use of information, technology is highly likely to continue at a rapid pace. It is mentioned as final information revolution has been the development of communication technology that is called digitalization. Compared to the other revolutions, information had not been distributed at this speed. Information has been distributed with electric rate and the way of communication has changed fundamentally due to the advancements of digitalization. According to Kerschner 2015 , The last “Information Revolution” began with the digitization of individual enterprises, which created networks of increasingly ubiquitous computers such as mainframes in the 1950s-1960s, mini-computers in the 1970s-1980s, and PCs in the 1980s-1990s. Especially, by the beginning of 90’s, it has combined different media services easily that many media services have become convergent and users can access the many media services at the same time. The developments of technological devices have based on the Internet connections which point out the WIFI or the 3G network via mobile can stay connected anytime and anywhere. As Jenkins claims 2002 “Rather than talking about media producers and consumers as occupying separate roles, we might now see them as participants who interact with each other. Jenkins shows that the production and sharing the content are easier from the past. Due to digitization, more and more people are connected to each other in recent years. As Lister and et al 2009 put up, digitization creates the conditions for inputting very high quantities of data, very fast access to that data and very high rates of change of that data. Today, it is offered to individuals as a new media in the field of internet.

Keywords

News, News Gathering, Online Journalism, Traditional Journalism, The Independent

Haber Toplama ve Dağıtım Açısından Farklı Platformlar Üzerinde Haber Sunumu: The Independent Örneği Üzerine Bir İnceleme

Abstract

20. Yüzyılın sonlarında bir iletişim aracı olarak ortaya çıkan internet, hayatımızın hemen her alanına girecek şekilde yaygınlaşmış ve gelişmiştir. İnternetle birlikte ortaya çıkan yeni gelişmelerle etkileşimli olarak ses, hareketli görüntü, metin ve resim gibi içerikler taşınabilir duruma geldi. Özellikle de son yıllarda, zamanmekan kavramını ortadan kaldıran internetin, bilgiye ulaşma-yayma konusunda sağladığı imkanlar ve getirdiği kolaylıklar sayesinde, bu yeni teknoloji habercilik sektörü için vazgeçilmez bir araç haline gelmiştir. Bu hususta, gerek yazılı basın, gerekse görsel medya bağlamında yapılan habercilik formatı bu yeni kitle iletişim türünden etkilenmiş ve internet haberciliği kavramı ortaya çıkmıştır. Çalışma kapsamında, habercilik formatının yazılı basın ve internet ortamı üzerinde nasıl şekillendiği, ‘The Independent’ örneği üzerinden analiz edilmiştir. Bu hususta, ‘The Independent’ gazetesinde 2 Mayıs 2014 tarihinde yayımlanan “Ukraine crisis “ başlıklı haberin, gazetenin basılı versiyonunda ve internet sitesinde nasıl ele alındığı karşılaştırılmış, geleneksel gazetecilikle internet gazeteciliği arasındaki farklılıkların neler olduğu tartışılmış ve internet gazeteciliğinin geleceğinin ne olacağıyla ilgili olarak bir tartışma sunulmaya çalışılmıştır

Keywords

Haber, Haber Toplama, Okuyucu, Çevrimiçi Gazetecilik, The Independent

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