Dr. Sudhamshu Dahal-
It is quite obvious now that the rapid and pervasive advancement in information and communication technology (ICT) has started to impact every aspect and endeavour of human life. As a sector directly related to the humanity and human advancement, media has been one of the early adopters of technological changes and has quite a strong potential to redefine itself. The ICT development has been so fast that within a span of a decade, the people tend to forget what has been old in media and its technology.
This article seeks to focus on the technological changes in media production, distribution and consumption. The massive reduction in the costs, expanded research on usability and wide availability in different yet similar forms have not only expanded the media access to a wider population but it has at the same time also redefined our age-old perspective and practice of doing media for good.
The ICT revolution has brought about so many new avenues of representation in people’s desires and needs to communicate every aspect of his/her activity. It has also transcended how media is produced, distributed and consumed. Journalism has been one of the privileged professions in the modern society, not because it has a power of storytelling but because of whose stories it tells.
Privileged access
Journalists have indemnity and privileged access to any information in the society. There has been a profound belief that journalists are trustworthy social group as they craft information into news accurately and fairly within the set deadline. This is obvious matter. But what is not obvious is the journalists’ privileged access to information is challenged by the sources themselves and by a phenomenon, which I call ‘zero waiting disclosures’. Read Dr. Sudhamshu Dahal's article on The Rising Nepal
