Although I have only read four blog posts on the Huffington Post, I have definitely noticed the “press sphere” that Jarvis is talking about. For example, in a Huffington Post blog, I have the option to click on links that will take me to other articles related to the issue. I also have the option at the top of each article to click on different links under “React” and “Follow”. Under the “react” section, I can click on emotions like inspiring, amazing, scary, and infuriating and it will link to my Facebook (I assume if I signed up it would post this somewhere on Facebook). Under the “Follow” section, I can click on related topics to the blog post, like specific people or companies within the article. It will then bring me to a page with a list of articles about the subject I clicked on.
The New York Times is very similar to this. As you read through an article online, there are links to other articles scattered throughout and there are reader comments and related articles on the left side of each page of each article. I can say that I never really thought of the news in this way before. It is now just as much of the responsibility of the reader to obtain the full story as it is for the reporter of it.
This brings me back to our changing reading and writing tendencies on the Internet. With efficiency and immediacy being promoted in our everyday lives by the use of the Internet, we are now becoming more active readers. This is active reading at its finest. Being able to click on many different links that will bring us from one article to the next is allowing readers everywhere to make their own news story out of a current event. By this I don’t mean we are literally going out and reporting our findings, but we are making our own inferences by processing information from different perspectives, data, and sources.
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