The Press Becomes the Press Sphere

1.     Jeff Jarvis- The Press Becomes the Press Sphere

April 14, 2008

Jeff Jarvis introduces a new perspective on the current information age as it relates to news and current events. He describes that there is a constant need to redefine the way we organize a process to acquire news for the public. It is a given that media, news, and technology are changing and until society and older generations in particular accept this, we will not be able to completely change the way we get our information about the world around us. Jarvis explains that this new structure should consist of news organized by the topic of a particular story rather than the outdated way of sections that have become limiting to procuring information. These rigid sections can be seen on online newspaper sites such as the New York Times and the Wallstreet Journal. He depicts the necessity of this adaptation in order to keep up with the contemporary generation of people, technology, and culture. Jarvis believes that the public should be put at the center of each press sphere because this is the direction society is going. Jarvis also makes an interesting metaphor that the news is a never-ending story that changes and adapts over time with news ideas and opinions of the people that interact with it. Inevitably, I think our generation is headed in this direction of news and the press being centered on the people and the stories that the people care about. I think that Jarvis’s sphere can be seen greatly in the reflection of blogs and other networking sites in which the stories are central and integral to the way the websites operate. But even so, I think the way that our society is obtaining information has shifted in this direction that Jeff Jarvis writes about since 2008 when he wrote this blog post.