Hypothesis: the mainstream #media feeds social media. What do you think? [Infographic]
Posted: January 18th, 2011 | Author: Erica | Filed under: Social Graphics, Social Media Platforms | Tags: infographic, information flow, mainstream media, news, social media | 14 Comments »My supposition here is that in today’s information culture, the mainstream media (MSM) are still an important conduit for information. They take raw information and give it the context that years of newsgathering provides, and the clout of accuracy commiserate with the individual media org’s brand. Amateur media adds a layer of commentary, repackaging MSM’s contribution and feeding it out to the social streams, where it’s reblogged and shared.
Does this graphic work* for you? Am I missing anything? Let me know your thoughts on MSM’s place in the infosystem.
The dotted lines represent MSM making it straight to FB/Twitter, which I suspect doesn’t happen much on the reblogging platforms (Tumblr & Posterous) because it’s not beautiful/pithy (too much context).
* A funny comment on information quality—what MSM represents—is that Google will return this graphic to people without the context where I’m saying “this is a draft; what do you think?”, unavoidably making me contribute to the unverified information that characterizes an unmediated internet. Sorry about that. What am I going to do, stamp ‘draft’ across it?
