Paul BradshawSenior Lecturer, Online Journalism, Magazines and New Media, School of Media, Birmingham City University, UK (mediacourses.com)
Blogger, Online Journalism Blog
New approaches to research in a digital age
Themes
• Wikis• Social networks• Blogs• …and lots of other ideas
Wikis
• The research: Wiki Journalism (http://bit.ly/9ldtQ)
• Wikis very difficult to make work• Goldilocks recipe: not too much, not
too little• The Wikipedia ‘stub’ – appeal of
incompleteness
Blogs
• The research: Blogging and investigative journalism (http://bit.ly/TeMHQ)
• Doing your research in public – peer review, on a massive scale
• Transparency and referencing: the link• Creating social value and social capital• Ideas travel (memes), criticism travels back• No walls, only firewalls (access)• Information & sources coming to you
Social networks
• The research: Blogging journalists survey (http://bit.ly/3OiPsa)
• Ready made samples and distribution networks (OJB, NUJ, AJE, BBC, Poynter)
• Social bookmarking networks – Delicious (e.g. http://delicious.com/network/paulb)
• OJB Facebook group (http://bit.ly/mqlUF)• http://onlinejournalismresearch.ning.com/ • Twitter – ask questions (e.g. http://bit.ly/nAA5Z
)
Other ideas & tools
• Surveys – Surveymonkey, PollDaddy• Presentations – Slideshare• Conversation – Seesmic• Group emails – 9cays, CCBetty.com• Multiple entry points, networked (YouTube,
Flickr, StumbleUpon, Posterous, LinkedIn)• Mapping – Google Maps• Collaboration – virtual interns (e.g.
http://bit.ly/haT08)
Paul BradshawSenior Lecturer, Online Journalism, Magazines and New Media, School of Media, Birmingham City University, UK (mediacourses.com)
Blogger, Online Journalism Blog
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