(INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, 2016-11) Donoghue, Karen L
The Internet with its many innovations has transformed how humans interact with their environment
and with each other. It has had serious impact on much of our socio-cultural fabric and has restructured
our relationship with technology. Within the broader framework of the Internet as a technology,
there is the concept of social media, which is changing, how we access the news and our news
consumption habits. With the number of people turning to the Internet for news are increasing substantially
and steadily, understanding how Internet users access the news could be informative of
whether social media news is or could potentially be disruptive to the established institutions of
traditional news media. This paper seeks to investigate the idea of social media news as being
disruptive for traditional news media by investigating various aspects through the theoretical framework
of “disruptive technology”.