Case report

Rapid changes caused by obsolescence

Mato Brautović ; Sveučilište u Dubrovniku

Abstract

Several good books on internet journalism have been published lately.
However, their main characteristic is that they became partly outdated immediately after
their publications. To be more precise, the internet journalism, as well as other types of
human actions connected with the internet, is considerably changed in the intervals of
12 to 18 months. However, since before 2001 there were no scientific or professional
literature on this subject, this paper tends to present all valuable literature in this field
until today (February 2008), with a special emphasis on text books, i.e. hand-books
published in the last year and a half.
Having in mind the fast changes in the online surroundings, we can assume
that the literature on the internet journalism will be directed to the internet editions, as
the time starting from the end of writing a book to its printing is long enough for the
book to become outdated. So far practice that a printed version of a book is
accompanied by an internet site as a supplement has not been proved very successful.
On the assumption that the question of exploitation is much more important than the
material interest, future editions of the internet journalism should be based on the
concept used for the book called Journalism 2.0., which allows constant changes, which
again allow the actuality of content.

Keywords

Internet; textbooks; technology; obsolescence

Hrčak ID:

42368

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/42368

Publication date:

4.2.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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