Blogs or Reliable Journalism Pages? What does journalism mean? According to an explanation of the term: Journalism is the gathering of news and information, and their dissemination through the media with the aim of as much as possible correct information the citizens. Journalism implies the subjective view of the practitioner, the way in which the collected information is formed or presented, and their direct comment. Anyone practicing journalism as a profession (journalist) is subject to the journalist's code of ethics for the editorial team to which he belongs.
The areas with which journalism deals with cover all issues of political, social, economic and cultural life. The profession of a journalist is considered by some function in the sense that the journalist performs social work, works for the benefit of society as a whole and contributes to its proper functioning (eg by revealing scandals).
Somewhere here come the blogs, as independent and alternative sources of information that have invaded our lives with the spread of the internet.
The online community is said to have listened to and adopted these different sources of information (blogs, social media) with the result that blogs are now more than "credible news pages" and "true journalists".
Here comes the dilemma that has been heard more and more lately, especially after the scandals that reported the transmission of false news by "credible news sites," "real journalists" and social media. What can we trust now when credibility is inversely proportional to the starter or a political propaganda?
Who can define them standards the correct information or the promotion and non-promotion of articles?
Most scholars, as well as many journalists, consider that blogs offer a new form of alternative journalism that contributes substantially to the democratization of public communication. This is justified by the fact that someone who writes on a blog is not limited by any norm and can express his opinion on a topic from a different point of view from the generally institutionalized and holding, without being constrained by his superiors about how to expressed on a subject.
Of course, the institutionalized opinions and norms of the powerful of each society do not take kindly to the freedom that the blog offers to each individual as it shakes the stagnant waters. We have read about dozens of (known) criminal investigations and prosecutions for defamation and anything else you can imagine.
According to Michel Paul Foucault (Foucault) the state legitimizes, establishes and has overall financial and administrative control over the operation of different types of enclaves such as prisons, concentration camps and psychiatric hospitals for many different reasons. One of these, apart from ensuring "normal" social coexistence, enforcing and maintaining order, is the maintenance of normality and hence maintenance of the existing. For those who did not understand in simple terms, the state needs the deviation because showing it can determine and maintain its regularity.
With their appearance, blogs essentially came to disrupt normality, "smooth" social coexistence, the enforcement and maintenance of order. We have seen that the freedom of expression offered by thenetwork does not like totalitarian regimes, see the blockades of Turkey and the Great Firewall of China.
The introduction of his academic research Zafeiri Karabasi "Blogging in Greece: Profiles, motivations and practices of Greek-speaking bloggers" PDF says:
"Blogs are an innovative communication platform that - for the first time in history - allows anyone with simple internet access, completely free and with just a few clicks of the mouse, to publish content of any digital form potentially around the world. This unprecedented possibility - which is part of the general context of what has prevailed to be called "web 2.0" or "social web" - radically transforms the global communication landscape by expanding the public sphere while it is a huge phenomenon that is gradually gaining more and more The attention of the media, scientists, the market and especially ordinary people who see in blogs a means of self-expression, socialization and self-empowerment of their speech. ”
Epilogue:
From all the above there is an endless expansion of information with many more involved. This is good but it is also bad. Although according to the research of Mr. Karabassis: the "typical Greek speaker blogger he is a 30-year-old man who lives in Athens, has a university education and works", anyone can write what they want and thus the responsibility of the end user, recipient of the information, increases. We live in the age of information and Big Data. Many of the biggest tech companies are investing a lot of money in information analysis, as it can be used as a means of influencing, predicting, directing, trading, and more.
The information that bombards us every day either comes from newspapers channela, whether from blogs, contain very worthwhile stuff but also unlimited junk looking for recipients.
What are we doing; Personally I do not believe that there are recipes, I do not believe in promoters and ranking services like Alexa.
The analysis of Big Data and the presentation of the results is funded (or even funded), as well (or funded) and journalists (not to be unfair, not all of us).
But one thing is for sure: Doubting is the beginning of every science.
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Other sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Δημοσιογραφία
https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ιστολόγιο
https://autonompsycho.espivblogs.net/
