Jeff Jarvis exposed the new path of social media

Jeff Jarvis, the keynote speaker of the Social Media and Communication Symposium at RIT. (Photo extracted from democratandchronicle.com)

Jeff Jarvis' participation at RIT’s Social Media and Communication Symposium started at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday and immediately captured the attention of the audience when he began talking about the future of social media. The journalism professor at the City University of New York reflected on the new structure of social media and how public journalists have to be nowadays if they want to be known.


“News doesn’t have a beginning or an end, it just goes on and on” Jarvis said while explaining how the many tools that technology offers allows people to stay connected all the time. After he met Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, Jarvis reflected on how generations have different uses for social media. While his generation uses Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare to broadcast news and information, the younger generation uses it to communicate and interact with their friends.

The acclaimed author also mentioned how there also should be standards and regulations on what things should be made public even writing a “Bill of Rights in Cyberspace”.

On that same note, Jarvis claimed that the US Government should be “transparent by default and secret by necessity instead of secret by default”.



Jarvis, was also one of the founders of Entertainment Weekly.

As one of the experts in the new media field, Jarvis also affirmed that “Google gets 4 billion clicks a month” and he should know a thing or two about Google since he wrote the book What Would Google Do?