Galtung and Ruge

How has new and digital media technology changed Galtung and Ruge’s news values?
How would you update them for 2015?

Immediacy is vital as social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat have the ability to report breaking news on the users timelines at any given time. However, content is most likely to be a source of citizen journalism and might not be completely accurate. 
Familiarity is useful is Twitter in particular as anyone can adjust their trending topics to the city they are currently living in. From that, news stories will be trending in line with the location the news is from.
Amplitude is convenient as large audiences can use online newspapers such as The Daily Mail, which is popular in numerous countries.
Frequency: the internet allows citizen journalists to have no limit of articles they want to post, even for newspapers although they report main news stories once
Unambiguity: especially with citizen journalism, some of the information can be unclear (due to audio problems for instance)
Predictability: in some instances news can be predicted. The London riots is a prime example of this, as social media promoted it and caused a big manic.
Surprise: for instance, celebrity stories in "the sidebar of shame" is usually exaggerated or unexpected. Online newspapers, such as The Daily Mail, are responsible for this.
Continuity: if online newspaper accounts, especially on Twitter tweet articles and this generates discussion then automatically it's interpreted as news. 
Elite nations and people: some stories which were front-page newspaper covers few years back might not be the front of online newspapers today. This is because audiences are more infatuated with celebrities.
Negativity: people have the ability on social media to freely express their opinion. With celebrities, who are seen as opinion leaders, can change views of people to think different of events in the news.
Balance: this is vital, for instance many stories about government scandals may be exposed near election time.