Digitalne vijesti: mediji, tehnologija i društvo
Digital News: Media, Technology and Society

Summary/Abstract: Digital technologies paved the path to some new possibilities in generating and exchanging information in various forms and through various media. This development has gone so far that the more traditional questions of media freedom and its economical and socio-political determinism does not suffice any longer. In exploring the social role of the news it is necessary to investigate the ways the technological innovations in question are utilised, such as the media companies' thrive in producing more content for less money and in less time. Multimedial availability and exchange of video, in particular, once reserved exclusively for television, destabilises the traditional divide between the press, radio and television media, and opens a debate about the new forms of journalistic expression. "Digital news" which has grown out of the maximised exchange of information through multiplicated channels and converged media, has set up some new rules on its own. To mention but a few, what was the most important news item is now the latest one, the institutionalised sources are accompanied by the users, while television delivers information with the help of the press, and vice versa. In order to cut through the technological-institutional foundations of the so-called "new trends", we foreground the issues around the media contents, the increased fluctuation of which is fostered by the development of media, which disperses the contents into an array of directions and through various media technologies.

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