Jeff Jarvis, the academic/journalist/blogger/adviser, wrote in The Guardian this week that the article is no longer the centrepiece of news. It's something else. The digital age provides a freer space, devoid of the box-like article artifice.
Jarvis believes that collaboration with the public now is an essential attribute of the journalist. The journalist can become curator, collaborator, organizer in the community.
Articles are either valued luxuries or bi-products of the processes of the digital era, he argues.
It's not that he believes the article should be killed; far from it, he's advocating the article as an expansive, analytical element of the larger media production.
Jarvis believes that collaboration with the public now is an essential attribute of the journalist. The journalist can become curator, collaborator, organizer in the community.
Articles are either valued luxuries or bi-products of the processes of the digital era, he argues.
It's not that he believes the article should be killed; far from it, he's advocating the article as an expansive, analytical element of the larger media production.
