There will be a new taste to our news-gathering process. Online news offers a satisfying wholeness – rather than knowing how to design a page or write a headline, we can become the information experts of a newborn profession.
Predictor: Bilodeau, Anne
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Computer-Mediated Communication, Anne Bilodeau, a founder of the Society of Electronic News Delivery, writes:”To keep up, we will have to work the Internet beat ourselves. Not pass through it, but walk the virtual streets and hang around in the virtual bars, clubs, hot tubs and priories. For every gathering place that people know, there will be a purer, more concentrated rootless equivalent out there. There will be a new taste to our news-gathering process. Online news offers a satisfying wholeness – rather than knowing how to design a page or write a headline, we can become the information experts of a newborn profession. And why not borrow from the librarian, the scientist, the statistician, to become another pure culture of information?”
Date of prediction: July 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Journalism/Media
Name of publication: Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine
Title, headline, chapter name: Into the Net: A Reporter’s Transformation
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1994/jul/reporter.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney