Change and Continuity: Historicizing the emergence of online media
Journal: White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)
Year: 2014

he emergence of online media is often framed in ahistorical terms. Observers have described online and digital ‘revolutions’ (BBC, 2010; Kaufman, 2012), some going so far as to suggest that the internet heralds change so radical that journalism may not survive (Hirst, 2011). Such reactions frame the internet and online media as either providing wholly new and exciting possibilities, or as unique challenges and even threats to established media. In these instances, accounts of online media and ch