Books

Allan, Stuart. Online News. New York, Open University Press: 2006.

Online News is a recently published book about the affect of the Internet on the media landscape. Allan touches on all the bases of online journalism including blogs, participatory journalism, and citizen journalism. He cites world events such as Hurricane Katrina, Sept. 11, 2001, the London bombings, and the war in Iraq as proof that this form of journalism is here to stay. As long as technology continues hurdling forth at such a speed there is little doubt that citizen journalism won’t become more advanced and widespread.


Barlow, Aaron. The Rise of the Blogosphere. Westport, Conn., Praeger: 2007.

The Rise of the Blogosphere touches on many of the current issues and concerns about online journalism including the overlaying concern that major media corporations have about the new media taking over. Barlow takes a chronological approach to the book. It starts in the 19th century and moves toward the current state of the world. There is quite a bit of history related directly to how the industry evolved throughout the years and the catalysts for change.


Pavlik, John Vernon. Journalism and the New Media. New York, Columbia Univerity Press: 2001.

Journalism and New Media is not a new book and that’s why I choose it. Based on the information in the last two book sources, Sept. 11, 2001 was a turning point in the journalism realm in the direction of the Internet. Pavlik’s book refers to advanced computer-assisted reporting methods as the way of the future and the only way to remain employed in the, then, upcoming atmosphere of the industry. He saw the indicators and was dead on in most of the book. In other aspects he wasn’t far-minded enough. Merely seven years after this book’s publication the industry has overshot even what he was predicting.