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Social media as a new paradigm
of journalism Donica Mensing
[email protected] School of Journalism
Introduction
TED talk by Clay Shirky
(TED: Ideas worth sharing)
How social media can make history
A paradigm
"the prevailing view of things"
Social media and other digital tools are shifting the
paradigm of journalism from a transmission model
to a network model
Networked Journalism(Charlie Beckett’s analogy, author of
SuperMedia: Saving journalism so it can save the world)
Via Flickr, Oscar Juárez
In networked journalism, the public can get involved in a story before it is reported, contributing facts, questions, and suggestions. The journalists can rely on the public to help report the story… The journalists can and should link to other work on the same story, to source material, and perhaps blog posts from the sources. After the story is published — online, in print, wherever — the public can continue to contribute corrections, questions, facts, and perspective …
Jeff Jarvis blogging at:http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/07/05/networked-journalism/
How can new technologies be harnessed to create an enhanced public service media environment?
Paper by Charlie BeckettDirector, POLIS, London School of Economics
Social media expands our journalistic paradigm to
include social practice as well as professional
practice.
Examples
Professional editors vs. readers as editors
Press to people information flows vs. people to press information flows
A gift economy vs. a commercial economy
Seeking information vs. seeking democracy
Examples taken from “The Weblog: An Extremely Democratic Form in Journalism”
by Jay Rosen, NYU journalism professor
Why should we think it normal to broadcast every personal detail about Anna Nicole Smith or Madonna or Michael Jackson, but then laugh at people who put their own stories and personal details on their own blogs?
Which action is more democratic?
Idea from Jay Rosen (ibid.)
How are journalists using Twitter?
As a public scanner and personal wire service
To enhance reporting, vet ideas
To develop beats
To connect with audiences
To share/publish information immediately
To build a personal network
What are the challenges?
Focus on immediacy as opposed to long term questions
Time away from other tasks
Special interests masking themselves as citizens
Merging of public and private lives
Mixture of rumor, gossip, inaccurate and accurate reporting
Interested in more about Twitter?
Check out the social bookmarking site Del.icio.us
http://delicious.com/dmensing/twitter
Note: So far, teens favor SMS over Twitter
What is social networking?
Social Networking in Plain English
Developing a reporting community
BeatBlogging.org
Public Insight Network
MinnPost (and even an advertising community)
Other social media tools
Blogging (Blogger and WordPress) (See Scott Rosenberg’s new book on how blogs changed everything)
YouTube, Vimeo and Vuvox
Flickr
Ning
Social bookmarking sites, music sharing sites, etc.
Opportunities for education in the journalism
classroom
How to set circles of intimacy in social networks
How to define private and public spaces
How to filter and evaluate information (CrapDetection 101)
How to find and organize (curate) (IRE)
How to build networks online and off
How to use these tools to improve journalism
