Auteur: Jason Gallo

Datum: 2004

Titel: Weblog Journalism: Between Infiltration and Integration

Url: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/weblog_journalism.html

Abstract: There has been a great deal of buzz recently about the potential for Weblogs (blogs) to revolutionize journalism, to make it more democratic, and to help demystify the craft by exposing the wizard behind the curtain of the media establishment. These claims, however, are only partially correct and are derived more from speculation based on the potential of the medium rather than from actual results. We need to move beyond the utopian claims and wishful thinking if we are to understand the impact that Weblogs have already had and will continue to have on journalism. Weblogs have begun to augment traditional journalistic practices, providing the seeds for an incremental, rather than radical, change in how the media reports and disseminates news. News-oriented blogs have created a real-time virtual feedback loop that disrupts the temporality of the traditional news cycle. Furthermore, they are helping to usher in a new form of hybrid journalism that merges traditional newsroom practices with the decentralized intelligence of individuals and groups spread across the Internet. The Weblog “revolution” is more a prolonged infiltration than a sudden overthrow.