I probably should start with a presentation of myself and I. I'm born in Sweden 27 years ago and have lived there since that. Maybe you are asleep after reading this but ill continue anyway. To make a long story short, I have studied the last five years. And have one year left at Dalarna University. I'm studying Media and Communication towards sports. If theres anything you wanna know, ask me and ill try to give a good answer.
My knowledge about American media is kind of weak. But I rather would look into it through Swedish view. In Sweden we have two big newspapers, “Aftonbladet” and “Expressen”. They compete every day to get the readers to their papers. These papers are what we call evening-papers. We have also morning papers, but the majority reads evening papers. Our major newspapers have implemented the first layer. We often have comments to everything and that makes often the journalists to write about the different kind of comments that the readers give to different articles. Theres also stage 2 usage of layers, with a possibility “have you ever done/or been a part” to make comments and also write stories about different subjects. I recognize most of the layers through Swedish media. They have done some really interesting things to create a new kind of journalism. I see some problems in this cause for example: Last fall there were plane crash in Thailand. In the same plane we had four Swedish people. Two of them survived. When the plane crashed and the guys realized that they survived. The first thing they did was to pick up their mobile to record the incident. In that kind of situation I would rather do some helping. One new thing that the media in sweden uses is the map. When a big crash or a bank getting robbed they use a mapping system to show where it has happened. I actually don’t like that idea because it gives the reader ideas. For example to take his own camera and take pictures and sell them to newspapers.
Over and out from Sweden.
