Online News Production, Consumption and Immediacy: The Remediation Perspective

Abstract

Evidence suggests that media displacement theory has limitation to explain the current development in news industry. This paper turns to the work of Bolter and Grusin on remediation which promotes the idea that old media are being transformed into new digital forms. Anchoring on this idea, this paper offers ways of understanding the processes in which online news sources repurpose print news for digital spaces via remediation. Three processes were identified; (1) borrowing the content and reusing it in a different format, (2) borrowing the format only and not the content, and (3) absorbing the older medium in its entirety. The paper also explores users' experience with new news media and suggests that greater interactivity and user control in online environment indicate the experience of immediacy. To achieve immediacy is the goal of all media, and its manifestation ranges from an improved experience to a sense of being there (or presence) in media use. Linking remediation and literature in journalism studies, this essay contests the straightforward definition of news immediacy and introduces a theoretically driven concept focusing on a sense of presence in news consumption. The dimension of immediacy adds to our knowledge of the complementary use of online and print news media, and is central to the issue of media survival and competition in today's digital age.

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“…They are also encouraged to present information comprehensively, involving technical skills apart from writing, including how to record images, edit images, display graphics, and process data. These transformation and adaptation are also known as remediation (Bolter & Grusin, 1999;Omar, 2017).…”

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“…In the context of journalists working in the digital environment, immediacy has never been so important than before. It is aimed at disseminating information quickly, with no lag between fresh content gathered and produced by news producers to be passed on to audiences or news consumers (Karlsson, 2007;Omar, 2017). At its initial stage, during the early adoption of digital technology by conventional media like newspapers, the ability to update the website was considered to be a defining characteristic of online news as compared to traditional media (Domingo, 2008).…”