Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Jeff Jarvis' blog post about the press-sphere was rather confusing to read. After multiple reads and re-reads, what I have come to understand as the press-sphere is this. The press-sphere is the methods by which information reaches the people. Many years ago, before the advancements of technology, the press-sphere was more like a flow chart. Information happened. The press wrote about it. People read it in a newspaper. Nowadays, a complex system, that Jarvis refers to as the press-sphere, exists, which takes into account much more than just the archaic form of newspapers. He describes the press-sphere today as a compilation of data, sources, observers, government, witnesses, archives, and companies, all of which, when added together, create a news story. In other words, the press-sphere includes everything that exists regarding a news story. That could include reports from different news reporters, different news outlets, data collected by scientists, movies or documentaries about the event. The reader today can literally immerse themselves in a single new story and never run out of new material, because everyone will take a different perspective on the event. While this may seem confusing, most people take part in it in their daily lives without paying any attention to it. The fact that people pick and choose which news site the visit is actively taking part in the press-sphere. When I read the New York Times or Huffington Post, I am choosing certain outlets in the press-sphere over others because of the political bias associated with them. Covering the same news story and in the same press-sphere are many other outlets that share a viewpoint I do not care to read.
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