Delivering Ireland

Journalism’s Search for a Role Online

Bibliographic Data

ID9848013
AuthorsJohn O’sullivan (0000-0002-0710-0851, Dublin City University, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume67
Issue1
Pages45-68
Publication date2005-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGazette (Leiden Netherlands (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-5492 • E-ISSN: 1460-3594
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0016549205049178
OpenAlexW2104969215
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited5

Much of the rhetoric surrounding new media has centred on their potential democratically to reform public communications through more diverse, more open and more accountable journalism and debate. This article details a study of Irish online news, based on observation of a variety of websites and on a series of interviews with journalists, to test whether this potential has begun to be realized and whether practitioners share such a vision. Enhancement of content, interactivity, immediacy, increased depth and new ways of telling stories are some of the possibilities that are present, or at least latent, in online news. But these possibilities are seldom or only partially brought to fruit. What emerges from observation of online news in action, and from discussions with those providing its content, is far from a revolution in media, but an expression of the cautious continuity, if not inertia, of media content and practice

Action (physics · Epistemology · Immediacy · Interactivity · Irish · Journalism · Media studies · Multimedia · Political science · Public relations · Rhetoric · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics

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