December 18, 2011 – 11:30 am
“A decade of studies by the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future creates a portrait of the American user of the Internet reaping the benefits of online activity, while at the same time paying a tremendous price in the form of time, privacy, and well-being” (quote from USC Annenberg | Is America at a digital turning point?).
The article identifies nine major issues. Most of them applies not only to America, but also in Europe and the rest of the e-mature economies, those with wigh levels of IT for a long time. Notably the following six:
- Social media explodes – but most content has no credibility.
- The desktop PC is dead; long live the tablet.
- Work is increasingly a 24/7 experience.
- Most print newspapers will be gone in five years.
- Our privacy is lost.
- The Internet’s role in the political process is still a question.
Hello, my name is Paulo Querido. I'm a portuguese journalist and writer. Did almost everything in newspapers and wrote a lot about technology and networking. I still publish on print 5 days a week, but I prefer to develop web apps and services for newsrooms ans individual journalists. I occasionally update the conversation going on about new skills that improve journalism in an environment totally full of data, as well as the effects of openness of information and governance around the world.