new media: old wine in new bottles?
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new media: old wine in new bottles?
Sanjana HattotuwaEditor, Groundviews (www.groundviews.org)
what is social media?
• Social media uses Internet and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues (one to many) into social media dialogues (many to many).
• It supports the democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers. (Wikipedia)
new media based journalism
• Glocal information – what is local anymore?
• Information agents are rapid moving, transnational and cellular
• A person in Cape Town can report on activities in Colombo who sources his information from someone in Menik Farm who sends an SMS to a relative in Australia who posts it to the web
• Models of news gathering and trust are changing
the revolution
Journalist Consumer
JournalistConsumer /
Witness
News as a conversation
News as a package
what’s new
• Ubiquity of two way communications
• Addressable peoples, even those who IDPs or refugees
• Journalism tied to ICTs
• First stories come from citizens, who are the first witnesses to any event
• Low resolution content broadcast on high definition media
• Content from ordinary peoples juxtaposed with professional journalists
new media platforms and technologies
• Blogs
• Social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Myspace)
• Google Maps
• Mobiles: SMS, MMS, Mobile photography and video
• VoIP: Skype
• Underpinning the above is 3G HSPA wireless broadband and ADSL
bombings in london
• 7 July 2005
• Within 24 hours, the BBC had received 1,000 stills and videos, 3,000 texts and 20,000 e-mails.
“saffron revolution” in myanmar, 2007
• 100,000 people joined a Facebook group supporting the monks
• No international TV crews allowed in the country
• Mobile phone cameras were the first footage of the monks protest
• Blogs from Rangoon were the only sources of information
• The junta shut down all Internet and mobile communications
the green revolution: post-election Iran, 2009
• Social media played three very important roles in the Iran situation:
1.It helped Iranians communicate with each other.
2.It helped Iranians communicate with the outside world.
3.It helped the rest of the world communicate with both Iranians and others who sympathize with the protesters.
• YouTube and Flickr brought multimedia out of the distressed country. Twitter and Facebook updates have spread videos virally. Blogs, Wikipedia, and citizen journalism have helped disseminate and filter this information. Most of all though, these tools have helped people take action.
groundviews.org: investigative journalismhttp://www.groundviews.org/2009/08/15/first-images-the-flooding-in-menik-camp-and-the-increasingly-dire-situation-for-idps
groundviews.org: real time reportinghttp://www.groundviews.org/2009/02/21/air-raids-and-airports
groundviews.org: using twitter post-electionhttp://www.groundviews.org/2010/02/01/updates-capturing-aftermath-of-presidential-elections
groundviews.org: verifying storieshttp://www.groundviews.org/2010/04/04/confusing-reportage-over-comments-by-the-president-propaganda-or-fact
groundviews.org: participatory journalismhttp://www.groundviews.org/2010/03/15/strengthening-democracy-in-sri-lanka-an-open-invitation-to-generate-fresh-ideas/
groundviews.org: participatory journalismhttp://www.groundviews.org/2010/03/15/strengthening-democracy-in-sri-lanka-an-open-invitation-to-generate-fresh-ideas/
Flickr: first images of the attackshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/vinu/sets72157610144709049
Wikipedia: first narratives of the attackshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26_November_2008_Mumbai_attacks
Wikipedia: first narratives of the attackshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26_November_2008_Mumbai_attacks
400+ edits / updates
100+ authors
Less than 24 hours after first attack
Getting updates: twittering the attackshttp://spy.appspot.com
gmail account: email, maps, news
• Free, from www.gmail.com
• Access to Google Maps (mapping)
• Access to Google Reader (RSS / web updates)
• Access to Google News (news updates)
twitter.com: micro-blogginghttp://media.twitter.com
creating online content
• Think beyond text. Online is not print.
• Think beyond prose. Online can be satire.
• Think of photos, audio, video. Rich media tells stories.
• Think of SMS and crowd-sourcing
• Don’t suggest you know everything. Use the community to add value to story
• Link to other stories online
enduring challenges
• Impartial, accurate coverage still vital, increasingly hard to ascertain
• Torrent of information. Trickle of knowledge.
• Veracity hard to determine
• Pace of technology development hard to keep pace with
• Need some basic understanding of English
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