- Gebundene Ausgabe: 256 Seiten
- Verlag: New York University Press (Mai 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0814735762
- ISBN-13: 978-0814735763
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,1 x 15,7 x 2,5 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.452.347 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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For a book ostensibly about digital journalism, And That's the Way It Will Be seems heavily entrenched in the predigital variety. Sure, Harper refers to Bill Gates and Steve Case--because, after all, they did launch Sidewalk and AOL, and you can't ignore those--but much of the rest of his "analysis" is rooted in traditional media companies who have decided to set up online divisions. "Although individuals can proclaim themselves reporters and put up a news site on the Web," he writes, "large companies tend to dominate the information business, primarily because brand names like Time and the Chicago Tribune provide a link with journalistic integrity." But many recent incidents--in the case of Time alone, one could list the "cyberporn" cover story based on fraudulent data, the darkened cover image of O.J. Simpson, and the hastily retracted story of nerve gas attacks in Vietnam--indicate that mainstream journalism has a severe credibility problem, and that consumers no longer have the same faith in "journalistic integrity" they once had.
Christopher Harper believes that the Internet can reverse the tide of public disdain for the media by providing a user experience that is immediate, interactive, and intimate. But what is a reader to do when confronted with a discussion of the major obstacles digital journalism must overcome that seemingly prioritizes the millennium bug and hackers over editorial accountability? What to make of a consideration of online news that has only superficial references to Salon and Slate and no mention of Matt Drudge? In addition to the lightweight treatment of digital journalism, there is much in And That's the Way It Will Be pertaining to online culture in a much more general sense that has already been better treated in other books, perhaps most notably Steven Johnson's Interface Culture.
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Since we no longer get our news from Uncle Walter Cronkite, and many may soon turn to the Internet for most of their information, Ithaca College communications professor Harper--a veteran of ABC News, Newsweek, and the Associated Press--traces digital journalism's problems and potential. He explores media audiences and examines complaints about print and electronic sources; he recounts digital news successes and failures and funding sources, including advertising and subscriptions. Chapters on the Net's upside, downside, and dark side describe, respectively, the Net as a resource for participatory, bottom-up communication from poorer areas of the nation and the world, technological threats (from hackers and cyberterrorists to the 2000 crisis), and control issues (pornography, hate, invasion of privacy), which are at the heart of the noisiest Internet debates. Harper closes by discussing legal and regulatory questions, adding predictions--his own and those of commentators from neo-Luddite Kirkpatrick Sale to ABC's Peter Jennings to Bill Gates--on the future of news and information on the Net. Mary Carroll
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2. August 2000
Format:Taschenbuch
The highlight of this book is the series of anecdotes about the creation of various high-profile Web sites and the people behind them. Unfortunately, they lacked the depth to prevent them from being mere soundbites - quite the tease.
Enjoyable at first, once the book turns to speculation about the future of the Internet and its role, it becomes apparent that this book was penned by an old-school journalist who at best lacks the experience with the technology necessary to write about it, and at worst could be labled a technophobe.
The end result is a simplistic overview of the Internet as it relates to the media. Written in 1997, the book quickly loses credibility with the section devoted to the Y2K bug which was summarized with a statement to the effect that, no matter what we do to try to avoid it, it would definitely cause massive problems for everyone in every imaginable way, and the flippant comment about the improbability of affordable cable Internet access being made available to the public any time in the near future.
Harper is better off sticking to concrete facts. It's when he starts making unfounded predictions that his credibility - and the book - go down the drain.
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Rather a Paranoid Description of the Way Things Were
3. Mai 2002
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I do not need to say that Christopher Harper's And That's the Way It Will Be: News and Information in a Digital World is outdated; any book attempting to forecast internet capabilities in 1997 will inevitably be so by 2002. But I do need to say that this book represents an almost sickening trend in the very field it covers. Harper's hyper-journalistic style of "shorter is better" prose, analysis and famous anecdotes collapses under its fatuity, leaving the reader with the dissatisfaction of accounting for the book's missing substance and the time spent reading it.
That said, Harper does situate the current boom of internet news services within the larger journalistic profession and that entity's concerns for its continuing role in American society. He supplies charts that measure audience interests and recommends how the internet may be tapped to cater to those interests. Through biographies of Bill Gates, Elizabeth Osder and Richard Duncan, Harper suggests tactics for continuing journalistic excellence, including exploitation of internet media capabilities and the possibility for news stories unlimited by traditional print space. Most importantly, if judged by contemporary publications (little in this area, at least in book form, has been published since 1998) he raises the question of internet ethics in relation to the increasing battle between immediacy and accuracy of what's reported, a question not foreign to American news enterprises of the past century, and Harper unfortunately lacks an answer like so many other news writers reflecting on the state of their profession.
Harper is easy to read and offers a simple overview of the "genre" of news websites, and if you can get past the constant prophesies for the collapse of AOL, the annoyance at "herky, jerky" free streaming video clips, descriptions of rounds to the parties of now defunct "dot coms," and the impending apocalypse of Y2K, it is not wholly uninteresting. It is not wholly informative either.
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