I remember asked my dad once why he quit his job at the city newspaper. Both my parents had been journalists there before social media took off. He’d left to become a documentary director instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His answer was simple: “The future of information isn’t going to come from authority agencies anymore. People will get information directly from other people. There won’t be one center of information\u2014everyone on the internet becomes a center. And it’s instant. Newspapers are too slow to keep up with digital media.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was right. Years later, the building that used to be the headquarters of that major newspaper group in downtown Shenzhen got sold off piece by piece. New tech and internet companies moved in replaced the old mainstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What my dad was talking about is definition of<\/p>\n\n\n\n
social media from Harjeet Gulati: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The content ownership in traditional media continued to be with the \u201cpublishers\u201d of content\u2014the production houses, newspapers, TV channels, and radio stations. Content Owners\/Publishers, the Channel, and the Consumers were clearly differentiated. As the Web continued to evolve, the term \u201cSocial Media\u201d has come to dominate the discussion.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The dot-com bust forced companies to take usability seriously. And I think the decentralized nature of social media will pushing things to user-centered design eventually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Social media and community products don’t revolve around the operators. They revolve around the users. They have to, or people leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I believe this trend will continue. Future design should be more inclusive, incorporating users’ diversity and agency instead of just deciding things for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I remember asked my dad once why he quit his job at the city newspaper. Both my parents had been journalists there before social media took off. He’d left to become a documentary director instead. His answer was simple: “The future of information isn’t going to come from authority agencies anymore. People will get information […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-2-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What This Means for Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n