Will the Metaverse save journalism?
A big and important post on the future of news. Or not.
No.
Now we've sorted that, enjoy this Metaverse/journalism discourse from the internets:
brb, pitching "Will the metaverse save journalism?" panels to all the media/journalism events of the next 18 months
— Thomas Seymat (@tseymat) October 28, 2021
Nobody would do this
I’ll buy a beer for the first person who writes the “Will the Metaverse Save Journalism?” Medium piece.
— Aron Pilhofer (@pilhofer) October 28, 2021
Oh, wait, they did
Brad Heath
And they made the same bloody joke as me. Is there nothing new?
We heard you liked the internet, so we put an internet inside your internet
Sorry but random metaverse thought - what's the future of journalism in the Facebook metaverse? Could it start recreating our news stories and articles in there via AR to enliven this vision of the metaverse as an "embodied internet"?
— Liv McMahon (@liv_mcmahon) October 29, 2021
Don't even joke about it
Metaverse-Ethics-in-Game-Journalism-Full-Self-Driving-Crypto-Make-America-Great-Again-NFT™️
— Eric (@ericmortensen) October 28, 2021
Joke or accurate prediction?
In the metaverse you get to kill off democracy and journalism and public health for golden points https://t.co/HhvxTH9Zgm
— Chris Taylor (@christaylor_nyc) October 28, 2021
MetaListicles FTW
Eight ways the metaverse could 'transform journalism'
— Dave Earley (@earleyedition) October 22, 2021
Seven metaverse tools for journalists
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Oh, God, another one
Thomas Seymat
I almost hope this is true
Hot take: we're already in the Metaverse and all of our "Will X Save Journalism?" pieces are already written, and we should just really be hoping that no one pulls the plug.
— David Smydra (@smydrad) October 28, 2021
(Enough Metaverse. Ed.)
