JOUR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Ebay, Netflix, Craig Newmark

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Journalism and Communication
• Course: JOUR 1001
• Professor: Christopher Dornan

Document Summary

Rise of algorithms: advertising, the internet and the 21st century. The newspaper was the dominate medium that society informed themselves, television was for entertainment. Np was en essential, chronicled news on a global scale or local including weather. Even when people started to turn to tv for news, the newspaper room were much much smaller than newsrooms. Over the course fo the 20th century, np started to add sections such as business, travel, etc to attract people. Content that could be marriage to advertising interest was awesome. Some audience members are more valuable the others: business section for people with disposable income but not one for min. wage people. By the end of the 20th century, was an artefact that was delivered to your doorstep had news, but it was only a fraction of news because of advertising and selective audience. Re sell everyday , as soon as you have extracted the info from the paper, its useless.