| The media industries are undergoing tremendous changes. With the Internet, youtube, blogs, online gaming, digital television, satellite radio, and cell phones, people are actively creating their own news and entertainment experiences like never before. Yet at the same time, the global media conglomerates continue to grow in size, swallowing up newcomers and reducing the opportunities for diverse programming while also shrinking news staffs in the interests of profit. The industries are investing huge resources into developing new models for delivering media products in the emergent digital environment. Thankfully, many outside of those industries are striving to understand what these changes mean for our collective lives together and for the future of democratic engagement. Together with collaborators and affiliates around the world, the Estlow Center participates in this effort through research, teaching, recognition of outstanding professionals, and networking opportunities between researchers and media professionals. In so doing, the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media is exploring the ways in which the traditional roles of journalism – information-sharing, knowledge-gathering, serving as a watchdog on power, providing the means for democratic participation in collective life, and promoting public good – are finding new forms of expression and experimentation in the online digital environment. |
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