The New Digital Age

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s upcoming book, The New Digital Age, sounds like it will definitely be attention grabbing. When I read the Google+ post by Mark Traphagen (the post was the TechCrunch article), I was more attracted to the mention of the impact of the Digital Age on journalism, seeing as we think it's a dying industry, and everyone now thinks they are a journalist.

According to the TechCrunch article on Eric Schmidt’s book; On Journalism: “The effect of having so many new actors involved, connected through a range of online platforms into the great, diffuse media system, is that major media outlets will report less and validate more…. In fact, the elite will probably rely more on established news organizations simply because of the massive swell of low-grade reporting and information in the system.”

This to me holds true. Markham Nolan in this TEDTalk demonstrates How To Separate Fact And Fiction. It is powerful as an offering from a journalism perspective. 

I love the internet, but having to constantly apply filters for what is truth and what is not, makes for hard work. Truth is never binary, unlike Algorithms! 


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