[LINK] Five Key Reasons Why Newspapers Are Failing

[Stilgherrian]

On 18/08/2009, at 7:10 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:
> Here's an interesting take.  When I read this I thought of google
> books for some reason.
>
> http://moralpanicsandthecopyrightwars.blogspot.com/2009/08/moral-panics-in-copyright-wars.html
>
> The atomic unit of consumption for existing media is almost always
> disrupted by emerging media. [snip]
>
> Changing the basic unit of content consumption is a challenge, but
> also an opportunity. Treating the article as the atomic unit of
> consumption online has several powerful consequences. [snip]

Which is all well and good, except that for almost a year Jeff Jarvis  
and others have been positing that the "article" is no longer the  
atomic unit, but the "topic" ... which may consist of articles, maps,  
tweets, databases, videos, diagrams, photos... all wrapped up in some  
way to provide context and a narrative.

     http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/oct/27/digitalmedia

The "newspapers" are still looking back, still thinking in terms of  
rearranging the components of a newspaper, instead of looking ahead to  
how they can deliver meaning and narrative to an audience.

Stil


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