‘news media organizations seem unlikely to survive if they continue to operate under assumptions that they have inherited from our previous ideas about ideas, information, and knowledge which were informed by the strengths and limitations of paper.’
Machine learning and the internet challenge underlying conventions in journalistic storytelling that often seek to connect events or effects to their cause, argues internet commentator David Weinberger. Instead, he says, access to vast amounts of information show the underlying reasons of an event are more complex than portrayed by simple narratives.
David Weinberger is author of Everyday Chaos and the Cluetrain Manifesto, amongst others, and is a senior researcher a Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
David Weinberger: Perspective on Knowledge – Journalism’s new landscape KM WORLD | November 1, 2019