September 18, 2012

Development of Communication Technology, Social Networking Sites, and Ambient Journalism

Purpose of the posting in my blog is to explore further the concept of Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, and software along with examples of its application in life, associated with the implications of the existence of the endangered print media due technology. Post determinism is generally aim to explain how changes happens in the world of journalism with the development of software and artificial intelligence. The purpose of this paper is specifically made to explain that print journalism increasingly endangered by the presence and artificial intelligence software that make the news more and more can be enjoyed in real time.

Many cite sources as primary cardiac reporter. Without a complete resource, might be written news journalist no more than mere opinion (HAE, 2000). However, things do not always side with the journalists. There is a time in which the resource is difficult to be found for questioning. Journalists certainly not desperate to find a source of news. If news sources difficult to pursue, journalists should not be too afraid to pursue it. The saying goes, all roads lead to Rome, as well as the pursuit of news sources.
Increasingly sophisticated technology to make the job easier journalists as more and more channels of communication that can be used. In the 2.0 era, the news can not only be obtained through private communication between journalists and sources of information, but it could have just quoted someone who wrote on the social networking site.
Social networking sites, or Social Networking Sites (SNS) is a concept that was disbursed by Danah M. Boyd and Nicole B. Ellison in 2007. SNS according to them are:
web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with Whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. (Boyd & Ellison, 2007)

When the term social networking sites are used, the word "networking" here emphasized as a relationship initiated, often between strangers. Although it is possible to network in the SNS, it is not the main thing is done in the SNS, nor is something that distinguishes between SNS with other types of sites (Boyd & Ellison, 2007).
That makes a unique SNS is not on the user the possibility to get acquainted with other people, but on the ability of the site to show the user's social network (Haythornthwaite, 2005). User it often has a network similar to the network that he has in the offline (real life). SNS is a core feature of a profile page where one can write down the information yourself as if real (Sunden, 2003).
Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Plurk, and Twitter was used as one tool in the delivery of news by media organizations. With a network acquired through social networking sites, media organizations hope that the news of their public consumption. Media organizations continue to try to reach their audience in various ways, and it sparked a fairly new concept, namely ambient journalism.
Ambient journalism was first coined by Alfred Hermida in his "Twittering The News: The Emergence of Ambient Journalism" in the journal "Journalism Practice" published in July 2010 Routledge. Ambient journalism itself by Hermida is "Broad, asynchronous, lightweight and always-on communication systems [that] are creating new kinds of interactions around the news, and are enabling citizens to maintain a mental model of news and events around them" (Hermida, in Burns, 2010)
Something wide, can be done anytime, lightweight, and always in a communication system that creates news and memungkinkn people to follow events and news around them.
Hermida imagine journalism ambient consciousness as a system of knowledge between individuals who serve as a kind of collective intelligence or cognition distributed within the group level. Meaning, people are assumed to have the knowledge, thanks to a system that allows the public to access information quickly. Ambient journalism associated with the use of digital media such as the internet are quickly accessible. Often, ambient journalism associated with the use of internet media such as social networking sites as a data source for journalists, both real journalists, citizen journalists, even  journalist, although the source is not merely a social networking site.