News distribution via the internet and other new ICT platforms

摘要: The Internet has opened up the world of journalism to a new set influences. It provides media platform that is relevance across spectrum communications perspectives, as well offering fresh impetus economic theories on nature information. This study an overview place news in information environment fashioned by Internet. Major trends identified include building online communities, exploration democratic potential citizenship, and developing for bypassing traditional gatekeepers. New ICTs provide journalists publishers with outlets content. However, process generating content fundamentally altered possibilities disintermediation, including 'everyman ’ journalism, activist publishing official state others. seen add towards globalisation corporate consolidation, even it lowers barriers entry permits greater diversity. Against rhetoric cyber-libertarianism free market ideologies influence much discussion ICTs, actual developments are observed, entities interviewed, structured assessment made current Ireland. Development medium assessed modest but significant, not least its introduction interactivity, which indicates beginning shift from broadcast, few-to-many model more open environment, potentially acting counterweight massification conglomeration. For most part, Ireland show real appreciation issues, and, while they readily recognise changes remain confident central role public discourse.