making my assumptions explicit

A useful exercise is to try to make your own assumptions explicit, and see if they are actually valid assumptions. So here goes. Assumptions I have:

• Journalism is an institution
• The internet is at the basis of an institutional change of journalism
• These changes include lowering barriers of 1) entry; 2) collective action;
• Institutional change can be seen as dialectical; it is not sufficient to just analyze the thesis or antithesis, but we need to think about its synthesis.
• Changes are particularly pronounced in the area of foreign news.
• Changes in foreign news are not just pronounced, but in some aspects also different from ‘mainstream journalism and news’.
• One important change is the shift in the site of production from the market (and state) to increasingly civil society.
• Proposal to do a comparative analysis of the political economy of foreign news before and after the internet