Will the Network kill the newspapers? - The Changing Face of the Mass Media, edited by the Institute for International Socio-Economic Studies, and published for sale by NTT publishing. Co-authored by Senior Research Fellow Nissho Aoki.

The Internet is spreading at a rapid pace and causing many changes in almost all areas of society. In the world of journalism, the Internet is seen as a new media form and is therefore bound to have an influence also on the existing mass media. Services such as the 2 Channel in Japan and weblog in the US may be described as the birth of grassroots journalism. The Internet is in the process of surpassing the existing forms of journalism in terms of freshness of information content and detail. Among the young there are already signs of an increasing number of people no longer using the newspapers as their information source. Instead they show a strong tendenc to get their information from the Internet. Is it only a matter of time when Network journalism will push the existing media aside? Will the newspaper as we know it really be expelled by the Network? This book deals with this question head-on.

Will the Network kill the newspapers? - The Changing Face of the Mass Media
Edited by the Institute for International Socio-Economic Studies
Author: Nissho Aoki, Senior Research Fellow/Tsuruaki Yukawa

The book contains:
Introduction
Part 1 The Changing Face of Journalism
Chapter 1: Grassroots journalism challenging the press
Chapter 2: The shape of journalism in the 21st century
Part 2 The Changing Face of our Newspapers
Chapter 3: Will the newspaper as we know it disappear? Chapter 4: The newspapers starting to be defiant again
Part 3: Technology Trends Affecting the Future of the Newspaper
CChapter 5: What will Technology change?
Final Chapter: The shape of the Japanese press media in the 21st century
Conclusion
Literature references