Professional/Unprofessional Media and the Effects on the MilitaryThe article I have chosen to write about is called the “Online Journalism and the War in Cyberspace: A Comparison between U.S. and International Newspapers” written by Daniela V. Dimitrova and Matt Neznanski. The article discusses how the 2003 War in Iraq started a new phenomenon between cyberspace communication and the media. The World Wide Web became the power source for news coverage from around the world. Anyone with internet access could obtain the news about the war, including terrorists. The article examines how the war was covered in the United States and other international countries. I will also discuss how terrorists can sabotage the internet.
“Surveys conducted before the turn of the 21st century indicated that 82% of Internet users checked newspaper Web pages, second only to email usage in reasons given for using the World Wide Web (Strupp, 1999). A more recent study indicated that news remains among the most popular Internet activities (Lin, Salwen, Garrison, & Driscoll, 2005).”
These two facts are quite interesting because I am going to discuss why the media can have a boundless effect on the military. The media can cover any topic and to make news interesting, they will stretch the truth to get more page views from the readers. The World Wide Web makes it easy to post an article that was most likely recycled from the original story. In doing so, this makes it more accessible to the public because it is quick and almost effortless to accomplish. This can be fixed by adding hyper links to the original story so that it is more credible. The military is being affected by the media. The people who have access to the internet can easily alter the original story. The internet is free access to anyone who owns and knows how to work a computer. Any kind of news whether it’s about what is going on with the war in Iraq or the earthquakes in Japan, can be reported by anyone who knows how to shoot a camera or write a story.
Terrorists Make Way with the Media
The media is also being used by terrorists to try and “scare” their targeted groups. In doing, so they will use such websites such as YouTube, LiveLeak, and Google Earth (to visually locate their targets). If the news gets into the wrong hands, disaster can occur. As technology grows, the cheaper it is to buy the old technology (machines) and use those for terrorist attacks. The internet is the new “information environment” where technologies are available if you have the right equipment. Terrorists are no longer using professional media to gain the world’s attention; they are using sites such as YouTube to record their latest development. They can upload and edit their video versions. Not only are terrorist using these sites, but so are the professional media. Communication technology becomes mature when it becomes available to the general public; when it is affordable, when the information is portable, and lastly if it is available in different countries and not just developed countries (Dauber, C. 2009).
References
Dauber, C. (2009) “YOUTUBE WAR: FIGHTING IN A WORLD OF CAMERAS IN EVERY CELL PHONE AND PHOTOSHOP ON EVERY COMPUTER” Retrieved from http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ssi/youtubewar_dauber.pdf
Dimitrova, D & Neznanski, M. (2006) “Online Journalism and theWar in Cyberspace: A Comparison Between U.S. and International Newspapers” Retrieved from http://web.ebscohost.com.dml.regis.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=10&hid=11&sid=a1558d95-f05b-4a8d-a9ef-86cd35b6df1c%40sessionmgr11
Salwen, M. B., Garrison, B., & Driscoll, P. D. (2005). Online news credibility. In M. B. Salwen, B. Garrison, & P. D. Driscoll (Eds.), Online News and the Public. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
Strupp, J. (1999). Welcomed visitors: E&P study shows newspaper Web sites busier than ever,but still learning the ropes. Editor & Publisher, 132(27), 22–27.
3 comments:
If the blog looks a little boring, then you will need to format it. Add pictures or change the heading size. HTML has 6 heading sizes you can choose from to make the title stand out. To make my blog stand out more, I just added a picture and changed the color in the quote paragraph. Hopefully, this catches the attention of the viewer.
Casey
You certainly caught my attention by adding pictures and text color. Great job utilizing your HTML knowledge! At one point I thought YouTube had guidelines that prohibited videos that depicted "bad stuff" such as bomb making, hate speech, depictions of violence to extreme violence and death. I only mention this because there was a time that the United States and abroad was receiving criticism for hosting terrorist videos with these types of associated content.But I suppose it depends on how a person defines the word "terrorism"
It is true that enternet has affected almost everyone. we do need it for information and it is very easy to get information from enternet. Since our militaly is very proffession, it might sound safe to say that they know how to varify thier soucerces of infomation that they get.People should know that they need to question and trust only what is good for thier needs.
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