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Quality journalism provides bulwark against fake news
Putting aside the COVID-19 pandemic and the pressure to carry out a digital transformation, journalists get threats for simply performing their function.
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Putting aside the COVID-19 pandemic and the pressure to carry out a digital transformation, journalists get threats for simply performing their function. (JP/T. Sutanto)
“Digital transformation is an inevitability. No sector can avoid its application.” This assertion appeared in a concept note prepared for Indonesia’s 2022 National Press Day conference this week in Kendari, the capital of Southeast Sulawesi.
The inevitability issue was to be discussed in one session titled “Building a Sustainable Mass Media Model”. The concept note stated the session would focus on three interlinked fundamentals: the enhancement of journalism, the media business model and the technology for content distribution and advertising.
Professional and fake journalism come under scrutiny every year on National Press Day, which commemorates the establishment of the Indonesian Journalists’ Association (PWI) in Surakarta, Central Java, on Feb. 9, 1946.
In the digital transformation, 5G telecommunications service will start to function more widely in Indonesia in 2022. With 5G, internet access, downloading and uploading, will be much faster than with 4G. Further, the country this year is heralding the analog switch-off. Digital television will replace analog TV to give sharper, clearer images.
Meanwhile, the metaverse, popularized by Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg as the coming electronic system in social networking, is making baby steps that can move and jump with speed.
A New York Times article by Brian X. Chen on Jan. 18 defined the metaverse as the convergence of two ideas that have been around for many years: virtual reality and a digital second life. In practice, a person using a VR headset can be in a virtual space and connect with a person in another virtual space.
Venture capitalist Matthew Ball believes the metaverse represents the fourth wave of computer technology. It follows mainframe computing, personal computing and mobile computing.
