Author(s): Mohammed Zafar Iqbal and Vahini Aravind

Abstract: The internet revolution has laid the foundation of information superhighway. Today Cyber journalism has become a common phenomenon in journalism profession. From Newspapers, magazines, radio, to television all these media have immense presence on World Wide Web. Many newspapers have evolved themselves into new medium because of the internet. They have started to offer video, podcast and blogs to their subscribers. Cyber journalism as a new media industry has gained importance among netizens and functioning as a pervasive medium along with print and electronic media. However cyber journalism has posed new challenges to journalism education. The present study aims to investigate the digital literacy among media students. The study would like to understand the digital readiness of the institute offering journalism education. To carry out this study, a structured questionnaire was circulated among 160 media students who were selected as research samples. To evaluate the digital readiness of journalism institutes, the academic programmes offered were analysed. The study found that students demonstrated high proficiency in digital tool usage and communication, they showed low confidence in critical evaluation, data journalism, and digital safety highlighting a crucial gap in both student preparedness and institutional curricula.

DOI: 10.22271/27891607.2024.v4.i2d.303

Pages: 307-311 | Views: 75 | Downloads: 34

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