The "Press-Sphere"

Jeff Jarvis defines the “press-sphere” as the change in how news surfaces and how news is presented. Jarvis describes how the news today is full of links and references that were non-existent before. When reading a blog post or an article there are many different links to other websites that will provide more information about a similar topic. He comments on how we can link to government or company websites to add to our news stories. Reading this article made me think of Wikipedia. Before this new “press-sphere” and new technology you would look in an encyclopaedia or ask your parents about something. However, now we can go onto Wikipedia and answer our questions. What is written in an encyclopaedia is fact and cannot be changed without publishing a new edition. I could change a Wikipedia page with the click of the button. Everyone can add to a Wikipedia page and everyone can see the millions of links that are on Wikipedia to a random blog to an official government site. The confusing part of his model was that he almost just threw some ideas out there but did not necessarily organize them. Obviously, he organized them enough to create charts and make his point but at the same time the article almost felt too short to make his argument. It was confusing because I felt like the article was cut short before he made his full argument.