Looking Back and Looking Forward: Journalism's Contrasting Two Futures

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Author(s): Anat Balint (San Jose State University,USA)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 12
Source title: Redefining Journalism in an Age of Technological Advancements, Changing Demographics, and Social Issues
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Phylis Johnson (San Jose State University, USA)and Ian Punnett (Kansas State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3844-9.ch010

Keywords: Digital Communications / Information Science Reference / Mass Communications / Media & Communications

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This chapter offers a fictional dialogue between two women writers. Dr. Deborah Koen, a Historian of the digital era at NYU, situated in the year 2067, is “looking back” at a mid-2020 pessimistic text about the future of Journalism and journalists written by an Israeli journalist, Maya Ofek. As the dialogue unfolds, it examines some of the current concerns and visions about the future of Journalism, as presented by media theorists and critics, and how things “actually” developed eventually. At the heart of this dual-perspective text lays a fundamental question: can the human role of journalists as storytellers be replaced by algorithmic powers?

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