W3 - Journalistic Investigation or Research.

These three readings illustrate different aspects of investigation and research from journalists. The first reading, "SuperMedia : the future as "networked journalism"" is about the impact of the web 2.0 on news and information. The second one, "Haunted by details missing in the struggle for objectivity", is about this reporter who took a picture of Tiananmen before the massacre, and he has issues with the way to remember the facts. The third reading, written by Paige Williams, deals with poverty in Atlanta, and the evolution of journalism and how journalists should consider the audience's opinion.

Firstly we had the Web that we can call : the initial one. People just had access to all of these many Internet websites, could read, collect, and perhaps share information. But they were only spectators, they couldn't enter in this giant sphere of virtual data. The interaction didn't really exist between the audience and the writer, the generator of content. The flow of information used to travel in one way : webmaster to reader.

Since the launch of the Web 2.0, everything has changed, and anyone who couldn't evolve with it was out. This new version of the Web is based on the sharing of content between you and the rest of the world. Now anyone who wants to create their own website, blog, video or song, they don't need help from a professional. Everything can be home made. The most affected part in the web is news and information. Why ? Because in the past, news and information were transmitted by journalists. It is still the case, but today, I can a journalist, my neighbour can be a journalist, everyone can be a journalist. Due to the blogs, a lot of people started writing about their passions, their feelings, their envies. They interact with their audience, which give their own advices back. They also relate news and information, which sometimes are not broadcasted or published. Journalists don't have the power of control of information anymore. They have to deal with it. Specially with websites like Wikileack, which talks about private information from the government that citizen shouldn't know. It is a difficult task, and some professional understood that, hence they include in their researches, readers' advice. The world of journalism has been shacked by the Web 2.0.

For the third reading, the author shows different aspects of revealing information and numbers about the same topic. In this case, Paige Williams talks about poverty. The writer uses several techniques of interpretation of data such as percentages, decimals numbers, different kind of units. He tries to connect all of them, and each part has their own signification. This is the funny part, because it talks about the same thing, but each time the meaning defers. We can clearly see that the writer investigate a lot to collect all these data.