Now, as our special report explains, the news industry is returning to something closer to thecoffee house. The internet is making news more participatory, social, diverse and partisan,reviving the discursive ethos of the era before mass media. That will have profound effectson society and politics.
现在,正如我们的特别报道所言,资讯产业正在向之前咖啡屋相近转变。互联网使资讯变得更易参与,更具有社会性,更容易听到不同的声音,让资讯从大众传媒时代重回百家争鸣的盛况。这对社会及政治将产生重大影响。
Going West
In much of the world, the mass media areflourishing. Newspaper circulation rose globally by6% between 2005 and 2009, helped by particularlystrong demand in places like India, where 110mpapers are now sold daily. But those global figuresmask a sharp decline in readership in rich countries.
在世界大部分地区,大众传媒都在蓬勃发展。世界范围内的报纸销量从2005年到2009年增长了6%,特别是有巨大需求的印度地区,每天就有1亿1千万的销量。但在富裕国家读者人数却大幅下降。
Over the past decade, throughout the Western world, people have been giving up newspapersand TV news and keeping up with events in profoundly different ways. Most strikingly, ordinarypeople are increasingly involved in compiling, sharing, filtering, discussing and distributing news.Twitter lets people anywhere report what they are seeing. Classified documents are published intheir thousands online. Mobile-phone footage of Arab uprisings and American tornadoes isposted on social-networking sites and shown on television newscasts. An amateur video takenduring the Japanese earthquake has been watched 15m times on YouTube. Crowdsourcingprojects bring readers and journalists together to sift through troves of documents, from theexpense claims of British politicians to Sarah Palins e-mails. Social-networking sites help peoplefind, discuss and share news with their friends.
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