Rise of Social Media and Online News Spaces

Abstract

In modern newsrooms, social media is an essential component. Using social media is an integral part of making news. The influence of social media on journalism has been immense, surpassing all previous waves of technological revolutions in terms of scope, depth, accessibility, audience agency, and structural and functional changes to the media. Almost everyone agrees on this. The merging of multimedia newsrooms allows for the use of the most advantageous aspects of many media traditions. Because of the Web's interactive features, viewers are now able to participate in the news making process, which changes the dynamic between journalists and viewers. In a number of instances, major structural shifts in the media production process have rattled the conceptual foundations of dominant theories and models of the media.

Keywords: Social media, News, Journalism, Internet