Citizen Journalists Cover US Election for Internet (3/3)

But Sanders also sees danger ahead as traditional mass media outlets lose readers and viewers to the often less reliable and fragmented new media sites.

"There is a risk, there is a danger that we become tribalized, The internet as a technology, this kind of diversified technology, runs the risk of dividing us up much more fully."

Sanders is also concerned that these grassroots blogs and video uploads tend to attract people who are intensely interested in only one or two issues and fail to provide a broad forum where all issues can be discussed.

"Newspaper readership and traditional television news viewing is down, some of these other forms are up, but they do not seem to be up enough to compensate for how much the other forms are down, One of the impacts of this technology is smaller numbers of people actually paying attention to politics. Now, those who do pay attention have more resources than they ever had before."

Sanders and other academic researchers who follow developments in politics and journalism will be studying further the impact of these new grassroots media as this election year unfolds.

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但是桑德斯也看到了所面临的危机，传统媒体败给那些通常更为不可靠且片面的新媒体网站，失去了读者和观众。

“我们开始社群化,这是危险的。互联网作为一项技术，这种多样性的技术，更促使我们分群。”

桑德斯还关注到这些草根博客或上载的视频倾向于吸引那些仅强烈对一或两个话题的感兴趣人，并没有提供一个广泛的可以讨论所有问题的论坛。

“新闻读者和观看传统电视的人在减少，关注其他形式的人在增加，但关注这些新形式的人数并不足以补偿其他形式下降的人数。该技术的一个影响就是关注政治的人变得更少了。现在，那些真正关注政治的人可以比以前获得更多的资源。”

桑德斯和其他研究新闻政治发展的学者将进一步研究这些新的草根媒体在今年这个竞选年中的表现。

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