Immediately on The Stream: Are influencers a reliable various to conventional journalists?
Gen Z, particularly, is turning to social media quite than conventional media shops for his or her information. This episode explores the rising affect of content material creators as trusted sources of data. It examines how governments and organisations are more and more harnessing this development as a instrument of sentimental energy. Are audiences genuinely being knowledgeable, or subtly influenced? And on this evolving media panorama, what function does journalism nonetheless play?
Presenter: Stefanie Dekker
Company:
Sophia Smith Galer – Digital journalist and writer
Gina L Divittorio – Author and comic
Yayu Feng – Assistant professor, College of St Thomas