Technology as the"Key":The Transformation of Professionalization in Making News
News is the social construction of reality,and professionalization is the secondary construction by journalists in the process of constructing reality.Technology,as the"key"of making news,influences the transformation of professionalization.Traditional technologies represented by printing and telegraphic communication have promoted the formation of journalism and professionalism,and accelerated the professionalization in making news.Digital technology achieves disenchantment through empowerment and brings about the de-professionalization in making news,which is reflected in the generalization of news producers and report texts,as well as the dissolution of news professionalism characterized by objectivity.However,new technology embodies both crises and hopes.Intelligent technology may empower news producers and focus on news ontology to achieve the essential return of journalism,ultimately achieving the re-professionalization in making news.In the process of the transformation of professionalization,it is not only technology that is"keying",but also the factors concerning policies and economy that work together to construct and reconstruct professionalization in making news.
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