The Use of ICT in Egyptian and British News Organizations and its Managerial Consequences | ||
| المجلة العربية لبحوث الاعلام والاتصال | ||
| Article 13, Volume 2014, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 2-11 PDF (934.44 K) | ||
| Document Type: بحوث علمیة متخصصة فی مجال الاعلام والاتصال. | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jkom.2014.110477 | ||
| Author | ||
| Rehab Hany | ||
| Teacher assistant at journalism Department, Faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This research has tried to map the different usage and implementation of ICTs in the journalistic field and how the management departments deal with these new innovations and that whether in Egyptian or British news organizations'. The researcher has found that new technologies have become a point of interest for research but recommends more in-depth research when it comes to the usage by journalists as new technologies provide a new opportunity to deal and think about different issues in our journalistic field and it has its undeniable significance in our everyday lives moreover the journalistic field. Also as the researcher went through different papers and researches, it was clear that there is no "known" methodology for researching ICTs when it comes to the journalistic field. Consequently, if we want to understand how journalists within a particular setting use and implement new technologies in their work we need to note the sociality of both journalism and technology. As we need to look at the usage of ICTs as a social practice related to a complex culture and social interpretations within each society, it is also related to specific contexts and practices of use. Also that many of what so called the "multi-skilled" journalism is not just the result of new ICTs coming to the surface but as well because of management led economic decisions, as a big part of the idea of Multi-skilling in news organizations is aimed at cost reduction. We as mass media scholars do researches and work on papers and use terms such as ‗commercialization‘ and ‗organizational structure‘, however such papers are for most journalists abstract and it is really about how they translate it into everyday working practice. However when you "as a journalist" find that the whole work system changed due to new technologies that have surfaced or when the journalist need to learn how to work using new tools and innovations to produce a news piece for different media platforms that represents tangible changes in the journalist working life, changes that are perceived as being caused by technology and that should be overlooked and adapted by the management departments as a start in order to be able to survive. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Egyptian news organizations; British news organizations; Managerial consequences | ||
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