THE MEDIUM IN YOUR POCKET: THE IMPACT OF SMARTPHONES ON THE PROCESS OF PRODUCING AND CONSUMING MEDIA CONTENT
This paper aims to shed light on the fundamental and radical changes that smart phones ignited in terms of media practices since its first appearance in the first decade of the 21th century. It refers to many books and studies that focus on the impact of smart phones, and how they help the citizen to turn from a consumer to a producer of content “UGC: UserGenerated content “in addition to the emergence of new forms of press like citizen journalism or mobile journalism “MOJO”. In this paper, the author emphasized that media institutions and companies were compelled to embark on the new wave in order to easily reach the audience (with all their rules and techniques to consume /produce content) by providing them with ubiquitous content wherever and whenever they are.
Keywords: Smartphones, The Process of Producing, Journalism, Mobile Journalism.