New Media New Paradigms
Mark Deuze defines four particular types of online journalism and discusses them in terms of key characteristics of online publishing – hypertextuality, interactivity, multimediality – and considers the current and potential impacts that these online journalisms can have on the ways in which one can define journalism as it functions in elective democracies worldwide.
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Mainstream media sites
“The most widespread form of newsmedia production online is the mainstream news site, generally offering a selection of editorial content and a minimal, generally filtered or moderated form of participatory communication” (Deuze 2003:208)
They are either originators (BBC/ABC/SMH) or aggregators (Alternet)
Meta and comment sites
"This third category of news sites contains sites about newsmedia and media issues in general; sometimes intended as media watchdogs (for US examples: Mediachannel, Freedomforum, Poynter’s Medianews, E&P’s E-Media Tidbits; see Pavlik and Clayton Powell III, 2001), sometimes intended as an extended index and category site (European Journalism Centre’s Medianews, Europemedia to name two European examples).
"This ‘journalism about journalism’ – meta-media or meta-journalism – particularly flourishes online (as well as offline; see, for example, Boylan, 2000). In this respect the internet has contributed to further professionalization of journalism overall, as the ability and willingness to publicly reflect on itself and being openly self-critical is generally seen as one of the defining characteristics of a profession (Beam, 1990). Online metamedia such as meta- and comment sites can contribute to reinvigorating the function of journalism in ‘carrying on and amplifying the conversation of people themselves’ (James Carey, in Kovach and Rosenstiel, 2001: 18)."(Deuze 2003:209)
Share and discussion sites
"Online journalism utilizes this potential of the internet in that it facilitates platforms for the exchange of ideas, stories and so forth, often centred around a specific theme such as worldwide antiglobalization activism (the aforementioned Independent Media Centers, generally known as Indymedia) or computer news (Slashdot, featuring a tagline reading: ‘News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters’). Several sites have opted to commercially exploit this public demand for connectivity, by organizing more or less edited platforms for discussion of content elsewhere on the Net (Plastic, kuroshin or ‘corrosion’)."(Deuze 2003:210)
Share and discussion sites
"Online journalism utilizes this potential of the internet in that it facilitates platforms for the exchange of ideas, stories and so forth, often centred around a specific theme such as worldwide antiglobalization activism (the aforementioned Independent Media Centers, generally known as Indymedia) or computer news (Slashdot, featuring a tagline reading: ‘News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters’). Several sites have opted to commercially exploit this public demand for connectivity, by organizing more or less edited platforms for discussion of content elsewhere on the Net (Plastic, kuroshin or ‘corrosion’)." (Deuze 2003:211)
"The typology of online journalisms as presented in this article closely connects with making the distinction between different types of journalism as a whole: orientating, instrumental, monitorial and dialogical journalism. By drawing the models on more or less similar conceptual grounds (applying distinctions between open and closed, and between content and connectivity), various interactions between the different typologies become visible. This suggests that the unique differences between new kinds of journalism developing on the internet and journalisms existing within other media modalities reveal much wider developments, and thus consequences for contemporary journalism and media production as a whole." (Deuze 2003:219)
From: Mark Deuze: “The web and its journalisms: considering the consequences of different types of newsmedia online,” new media & society 2003 Vol5(2):203-230
