A special lecture on Changing trends in Journalism and
Future of Digital Media was organised at Makhanlal Chaturvedi National
University of Journalism and Communication (MCU), Bhopal, state capital of
Madhya Pradesh, India on Wednesday. The chief guest of this occasion was
Praveen Purukayasth, editor NewsClick, a digital news platform touted as
alternative to corporate media.
While addressing the students he stated that Communication
is necessary for every kingdom, be it man or animal one. It enables us to
express and further record our know how, and in this evolved humankind
technology aids the communication process. In any civilization, fundamental
rights could only be garnered and allowed to us by literacy and literacy by
communication.
Hence the democratization of content and news feeds could
only be achieved by shattering the monopoly over communication my a handful of multi casters, he added.
Talking further on this topic he addressed, "Business
model of Facebook and other platform economy is based on virality, bad news,
shallow feeds and hate speech. Since they role as a mere platform to the
content they cannot be questioned, challenged or trialed, rather the
content provider is made responsible."
He went on to say that, Mussolini's fascism was backed up by Radio. In the same way, today, the social media trains us "How not to think", by simply clicking the like button, recording algorithms of an individual, and engaging in filter bubble trap.
The program was conducted by first semester student of Masters
in Journalism (MJ) Raghvendra Pratap Singh and attended by Rector, Dr.
Shrikant Singh, Prof Arun Tripathi, teachers and students.
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