Jour 366 Online Journalism 
 Spring
1999
 
  
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Objectives 
Changes in technology -- from printing press to 
telegraph to radio to television to cable to computer -- always have influenced journalism and its social role. Some people suggest that the change to online technology will be a sea change, altering the very  nature of communication, especially journalism. 

The objectives of study will not be how to do online journalism, though we will find ourselves discussing that. The primary objectives will be to examine the social, cultural, political, legal and economic influence of online journalism on the field of journalism and on the role of journalism in society.