new media: what really is new?
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Lecture delivered in Sinhala and English to students of diploma course in journalism at the Sri Lanka College of Journalism.TRANSCRIPT
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new media: what’s really new?
Sanjana Hattotuwa
TED FellowFounding Editor, Groundviews, www.groundviews.org
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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 democratisation of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers. (Wikipedia)
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social media landscape in 2011
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new media foundations
• Blogs
• Social networks (Twitter, Facebook)
• Mobiles: SMS, mobile photography and video
• And making this all possible is ADSL + 3G wireless broadband
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what’s new
• Ubiquity of two way communications
• Addressable peoples, even those who IDPs or refugees
• Both news generation and dissemination leverages new media
• Disintermediated models vs. traditional media model
• Citizens as producers
• Low resolution content broadcast on high definition media
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old media model
Event / Issue
Journalist
Consumer Mainstream
media
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new media models
Event / Issue
Journalist
Consumer Citizen media
Mainstream media
Consumer
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the revolution
Journalist Consumer
Journalist Consumer / Witness
News as a conversation
News as a package
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no longer just the elite
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the use of new media internationally
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SourceWatch: Crowdsourcinghttp://www.sourcewatch.org
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10 questions: YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/show/10questions
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crisis in darfur: using google earth
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new eyes: using google earth
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all mainstream media use new media
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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.
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“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
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burma vj reporting from a closed country
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burma vj reporting from a closed country
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the green revolution: post-election Iran 2009
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• 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.
the green revolution: post-election Iran 2009
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haiti earthquake, january 2009
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Our presentThe telegenic revolutions
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The use of social media in Sri LankaPresidential Campaign 2010
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flickr for sarath fonseka
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flickr for the president
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facebook for president
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facebook for sarath fonseka
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more local examples
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groundviews citizen journalism bearing witness
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readership and reach: web media
From 19 – 27 May 2010, Groundviews ran a special edition on the end of war in Sri Lanka.
Over this week alone, the site received over forty thousand readers and exclusively featured over eighty-thousand words of original content, one video premiere, over a dozen photos, generating over one hundred and fifty thousand words of commentary.
Tens of thousands more have read and commented on this content since.
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commemorating lasanthahttp://unbowedandunafraid.com
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groundviews.org: participatory journalismhttp://www.groundviews.org/2010/03/15/strengthening-democracy-in-sri-lanka-an-open-invitation-to-generate-fresh-ideas/
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recording history: archiving vital websiteshttp://sitesatrisksl.wordpress.com
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groundviews citizen journalism bearing witness
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online video: vikalpa YouTube channelwww.youtube.com/vikalpasl
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alternative politics in sinhala vikalpa www.vikalpa.org
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boondi alternative Sinhala critiqueswww.boondi.lk
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kottu blog aggregationwww.kottu.org
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sinhala bloggers union: Sinhala blog aggregationwww.sinhalabloggers.com
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sinhala bloggers union: Sinhala blog aggregationwww.sinhalabloggers.com
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what is curation?
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curated content
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selecting the best produce
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curating news
• Buying fruits of vegetables
• Check price
• Weigh it in one’s hands
• Look at it from all angles
• Look at it in context
• Look at a few, not just one
• Discard if old
• Ascertain location where it was produced
• Curating news
• Check authorship
• Check for veracity, quality
• Is it accurate, fair, topical?
• What is the bias? Is it progressive?
• Select a few from many sources
• Discard if out-dated information is presented
• Be cautious of unverified information and breaking news
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curated twitter content on sri lanka: newshttp://twitter.com/groundviews/sl-news
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curated twitter content on sri lanka: blogshttp://twitter.com/groundviews/sl-bloggers
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facebook for work
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social networking: facebook600 million+ users
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social networking: facebook reach
Avg. FB account: 130 friends
Updates featured on ~690,000+ FB accounts. Instantly.
Groundviews FB page has 5,311+ fans
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social networking: facebook reach
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social networking: facebook reach
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social networking: facebook video
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case study: mumbai bomb blastsNovember 2008
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flickr : first images of the attackshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/vinu/sets72157610144709049
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wikipedia: first narratives of the attackshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26_November_2008_Mumbai_attacks
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400+ edits / updates
100+ authors
Less than 24 hours after first attack
wikipedia: first narratives of the attackshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26_November_2008_Mumbai_attacks
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Getting updates: twittering the attackshttp://spy.appspot.com
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case study: japan earthquakeMarch 2011
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getting updates: google crisis responsehttp://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html
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producing and reading content
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gmail account: email, maps, news
• Free
• Access to Google Maps (mapping)
• Access to Google Reader (RSS / web updates)
• Access to Google News (news updates)
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google maps
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google newshttp://news.google.com
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wordpress.com: blogging
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twitter.com micro-blogginghttp://media.twitter.com
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ustream.tv: broadcasting via a PC
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ustream: mobile phone broadcastinghttp://www.ustream.tv/mobile
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bearing witness
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flickr online photos
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creating online content
• Think beyond text. Online is not print.
• Think beyond prose. Online can be satire, verse, haiku!
• 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
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enduring challenges
• Impartial, accurate coverage still vital, increasingly hard to ascertain
• Torrent of information, trickle of knowledge
• Veracity and verifiability
• Eye-witness accounts are partial, subjective
• New media / technology illiteracy even amongst journalists
• Apathy and animosity against citizen journalism
• Licensing and attribution of online content
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groundviews: first civility code2006
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still not convinced?