Europe: New data report that

55% of internet users

go online everyday

Meshing Old with New

Fortunately, this is not an either-or paradigm where the consumer's choice of information is relegated to the "old" media with its limitations or to the "new" media with its many flaws. The blogosphere is increasingly populated by writers and readers who not only represent more mainstream — as opposed to extreme — opinions but who also subscribe to the values of traditional journalism.
Bai, who has specialized in the new media's impact on campaigns, likens the blogosphere to a teenager who is fast maturing as he approaches adulthood. As recently as 2003, Bai has said that online conversations were shaped by "early adapters, and they tended to come from the outer edges of society." Little wonder that the opinions batted about in the blogosphere of that time reflected the youthful exuberance of the bloggers.

But by the end of 2005 a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 60-something Americans went online to get their news in roughly the same percentages as those Americans between 21 and 40 years of age, the generation of their children. "In 2008 you have everybody on the Web," Bai says. "They've changed the nature of the Internet community. It has become more diverse, more representative of more constituencies. And the more mainstream the technology becomes, the more mainstream will be the sensibilities of those who use it."

Another factor is at work driving Internet news toward the centerline: "Old media" is rapidly occupying this new media's space and soaking up much of the audience. The news reports of newspapers, television networks, National Public Radio, local television and local radio stations, and other traditional producers are expanding on the Web, even as their historic operations have cut back. Between 2005 and 2006, the online audience for newspaper sites rocketed upward by 37 percent. And in a hopeful sign for these traditional media, 29 percent of the under-40 year oldsvisit newspaper sites "regularly."
Most of these old media sites also host blogs written by their staffers, which provide counterweight — and maybe role models — to the more extreme bloggers. In a typical week during the run-up to the 2008 presidential primary season, the number of visitors to The New York Times's political coverage and its blog, The Caucus, far outnumbered the hits on ultraliberal Daily Kos or the conservative RedState.com. Even the pioneering Drudge Report, which has evolved into an aggregator of story links from being a source of sensational scoops, devotes the vast majority of its space to mainstream newspaper and broadcast coverage barely distinguishable from Google News.

Some see this convergence of old and new media as a win for both sides. Rosen, one of the early advocates of Web-based journalism, is among them. "The rise of blogs does not equal the death of professional journalism. The media world is not a zero-sum game," Rosen says. "Increasingly, in fact, the Internet is turning it into a symbiotic ecosystem — in which the different parts feed off one another and the whole thing grows."




  고등학생때만 해도 "입시열"에 의해서 컴퓨터 할 시간이 얼마없었다. 그러다 보니 필요한 책은 구입하거나 도서관에서 빌려서 보고, 뉴스는 TV또는 신문에서 접했다. 그 당시 나에겐 그것이 보편적이었고 당연한 일이었다.
그러나 대학생이 되고나서 하루에 3시간 이상 컴퓨터와 씨름하는 생활을 하다보니, 뉴스들은 인터넷 포털사이트의 뉴스를 통해 접하고 책도 필요한 논문을 인터넷에서 찾아보게 되었다. 그러면서 손으로 넘기면서 책을 보는 시간이 줄었고, 신문도 거의 보지 않게 되었다.
  이렇게 내 생활이 변화했지만, 나는 이러한 뉴미디어가 갖는 영향력을 실감하진 못했다. old media인 신문이나 TV, 라디오는 사람들에게 보편적으로 인정받는 미디어 매체이고 뉴스와 정보에 있어서 신뢰를 받지만, 뉴미디어는 신매체이다보니 사람들의 관심을 끌기 위해 가십거리를 뉴스메인으로 내세우고, 뉴스와 정보도 정교하게 가다듬어 있지 않은 것을 많이 접해서 보편적으로 뉴미디어에 대한 사람들의 신뢰가 없다고 생각했다. 그러나 우리가 그렇게 생각을 하고는 있지만, 실제로 우리가 뉴미디어를 사용하는 정도는 올드매체에 비해 훨씬 빈도가 높다. 윗 글에서 언급된  "In 2008 you have everybody on the Web," visit newspaper sites "regularly." 만 보아도 이미 뉴미디어를 통해 정보를 얻는 것은 일상적인 일이 되어버렸다는 것을 알 수 있다. 그렇다면 우리가 생각했던 것처럼 뉴미디어의 환경이 그렇게 허술할까?
"The rise of blogs does not equal the death of professional journalism. The media world is not a zero-sum game," Rosen says. "Increasingly, in fact, the Internet is turning it into a symbiotic ecosystem — in which the different parts feed off one another and the whole thing grows."



 

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  Do women face a glass ceiling in the blogosphere? Organizers and attendees of BlogHer, the three-year-old conference attended by more than a thousand female bloggers, think so.

Last year, a study co-authored by BlogHer and Compass Partners found that 36 million women (about 11 percent of all US women) participate in the blogosphere each week, and 15 million of them have their own blogs.

Yet, when Techcult, a technology Web site, ranked its top 100 Web celebrities, only 11 of them were women. And last year, Forbes.com created a similar list, naming just 3 women on its list of 25.

"It's disheartening and frustrating," said Allison Blass, a BlogHer attendee whose personal blog at www.lemonade-life.com is about living with Type 1 diabetes.

Created in 2005 to help female bloggers gain exposure, this year's San Francisco event "has since evolved into a corporate-sponsored Oprah-inflected version of a '60s consciousness-raising group," reported the New York Times.

"These days, there is money to be made, fame to be earned and influence to be gained," reports NYT. "And though women and men are creating blogs in roughly equal numbers, many women at the conference... belie(ve) that they are not taken as seriously as their male counterparts... Nor, they said, were they making much money, even though corporations seem to be making money from them."

The conference hosted seminars like "How to Take Names and Be Taken Seriously as a Political Blogger," where many women said that their male colleagues and major media groups undercut them, and linked to them less often.

Megan McArdle, who blogs for the Atlantic monthly about economic issues, did no attend the conference, but noted "Women get dismissed in ways that men don't." "(McArdle) added that women are taught not to be aggressive and analytical in the way that the political blogosphere demands, and are more likely to receive blog comments on how they look, rather than what they say," reported NYT.

Confronting the issue head on, and encouraging those women fighting the tide, Enkay recently created the first Top 100 Female Bloggers list and NxE created a 50 most influential female bloggers list, earlier this month.


  현대 사회에서도 동서양을 막론하고 남녀성차별이 여전히 존재한다. 여성들을 막는 투명한 유리천장.
사실 이 유리천장은 얼마나 견고한지, 여성들에게 좌절을 안겨주기 일쑤다.
정치, 사회, 문화 등 여러 곳들이 여전히 젠더화되어있다. 아직도 여성이라는 이유 하나만으로 사회진출에 한계를 느끼고, 주장에 한계를 느끼고, 진출분야에 한계를 느끼고, 승진에 한계를 느낀다.
현재 여성과 정치라는 수업을 듣고 있는데, 이 수업을 듣다보면 급진페미니스트는 절대 아니지만 정말 열받는다.
우리 사회는 아직도 여성들을 정치인이나, 언론인, 학생, 회사원 등으로 평가하기 이전에 "여성성"이라는 겉모습을 통해 평가된다. 남성과 여성이 다를게 없는데, 사실 능력으로 치자면(매년 고시 합격률을 봐라) 여성의 능력은 남성보다 뛰어나면 뛰어나지 모자라지 않다. 그런데도 오랜 세월동안 하나의 문화나 체제처럼 굳어진 가부장적 남성우월주의는 우리 사회의 깊은 곳에 깔려있는 무시 못할 걸림돌로 작용한다. 
 
 여기 유리천장을 깨기 위해 모인 여성블로거들이 있다. 웹상에서의 여성블로거들의 모임인 blogher.com. 컨퍼런스도 개최하고 사이트에 여러가지 글을 포스팅한다. 유명 블로거의 글은 신문사가 신문에 기고할 정도로 그 영향력이 크다. 또한 블로그에 올린 글들은 누구나 접근이 가능하고 쉬울 뿐만 아니라, 쉽게 이슈화 될 수 있고, 쉽게 피드백 되어 의견을 공유할 수 있다. blogher는 이런 점들을 이용하여 여성들이 사회적 편견과 부딪쳐 싸울 수 있는 목소리를 내기 위한 장소이다.


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