John Owens the head of the Electronic Media department here at the University of Cincinnati, he spoke of one of the major problems facing media that related to these new media outlets. He called it the fragmentation of media. (Owens 2017) Because there are hundreds upon thousands of new ways to receive information now online, there is no aggregate way of sending out information anymore. In a study done by the American Press Institute done in 2014, it was said that 78% of Americans use their phone or tablet to receive news. ("How Americans get their news" 2014) There use to be several channels of news that would disseminate information but now the arm of new material must cast a wider net. On-demand media has been taken in favor over the traditional media outlets and he fears that there is no hope of that ever changing. Because of the new territory that is our current media spectrum, the essay "Media Literacy for the Global Village," by Barbara J. Walkosz, Tessa Jolls and Mary Ann Sund, brings a multitude of nuances that come with this new territory (Walkosz,, Jolls, & Sund
John Owens the head of the Electronic Media department here at the University of Cincinnati, he spoke of one of the major problems facing media that related to these new media outlets. He called it the fragmentation of media. (Owens 2017) Because there are hundreds upon thousands of new ways to receive information now online, there is no aggregate way of sending out information anymore. In a study done by the American Press Institute done in 2014, it was said that 78% of Americans use their phone or tablet to receive news. ("How Americans get their news" 2014) There use to be several channels of news that would disseminate information but now the arm of new material must cast a wider net. On-demand media has been taken in favor over the traditional media outlets and he fears that there is no hope of that ever changing. Because of the new territory that is our current media spectrum, the essay "Media Literacy for the Global Village," by Barbara J. Walkosz, Tessa Jolls and Mary Ann Sund, brings a multitude of nuances that come with this new territory (Walkosz,, Jolls, & Sund