It’s barely 10 a.m. in Amherst and we’re already well into the second session. I’m not going to post the blow-by-blow here about doing journalism — too much inside baseball for most of you, I suspect — but it would be difficult to overestimate the role of new media here. It’s a huge shift from the days when we’d have to explain new media or fight to have it represented in the discussion. Now it’s a threat/opportunity/challenge, a major player no matter which of those words applies to you or how you define new media. People are reacting to it, trying to absorb it, looking for ways to use it without losing what’s perceived as important or valuable from the current system — and, make no mistake, much of what exists is still both important and valuable.
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