Comments on: What are we going to do with(out) social media?

By: Lia N.

Lia N. — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:00:03 +0000

@Elizabeth, I think that’s a very valid point, and a strong counter to the popular argument that print media is dead. Aside from fitting into the comfortable cliché of opening up a newspaper while having a morning coffee, printed news still has extensive value. I think IDEO did a great job of pointing out that tangible media would benefit from being more dynamic, but right now our society associates dynamism with live updates from the internet – and then you have the same problem of being dependent on the internet to deliver your news. It’s a fascinating problem.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:56:31 +0000

But couldn’t this same thought be applied to news before the internet? Whenever you have only one place to go for news, you’re in trouble, but I think we’re getting more diverse places to go for news, not fewer. Like, imagine – what if all we had for our news was newspapers? The printing presses could break, couldn’t they? If you get your news only from one forum, you’re taking a risk, whether that forum is the internet, or newspapers, or TV, or NPR, or what have you. Luckily, in this day and age, we’ve got loads of places to turn for the news – not just the internet.