![]() ![]() ![]() Instagram posts that showcase videos of events with captions providing crucial context are immensely popular, especially with grassroots reporting. This is not to deny that a seismic shift is occurring.īy keeping messages and captions in smartphone videos short and snappy, the style of presentation and pace of news stories that spread via the likes of Instagram differ greatly from even older social media platforms with their heyday in the previous decade, such as Facebook, which remains the medium of choice for the boomer generation. Radio and television have not replaced newspapers, and likewise social media, while popular among the young, may still leave room for other demographics to enjoy established platforms. Whether it has been the evolution of newspapers to radio and then eventually television and 24-hour news cycles, each platform still remains with us to this day. News has always reached us by whatever medium of the time, and concerns of social media outmuscling older forms of journalism have never come to fruition. But the natural evolution of news from traditional platforms to 20-second video formats is fast becoming popular with young people, while newspapers and television remain the domain of those born around or before the 1980s. Traditional journalism has often struggled to reach Gen Z, reluctant to wade into unfamiliar and somewhat unregulated territory. ![]() However, the likes of Instagram and Snapchat are also increasingly being used to tell stories effectively in a short period of time, lending themselves unexpectedly as a news platform for deep discussion. Social media these days is often associated with teenage trends, dances and celebrity culture. Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to a screen projection of Instagram logo in this picture illustration taken March 28, 2018. ![]()
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