Social NewsNews through the eyes of the public

What is Social News?Social as in community, not socialism

• The public (community, users) decides what news are important

• Three types of participationo Users create and submit contento Users submit content that someone else createdo Users rate existing content

User Contributed Content The public (users) create the content

Different Outlets for User Generated Content

• Personal Blogs• Blog Networks• Sites Accepting Content From the Public• Online Newspaper Blogs• Wiki News• Open Source News

Sites Accepting Content from the Public

• Characteristicso Users report on eventso The community participate by giving feedbacko Non editedo Non fact checked

• CNN's iReport.com• Newsvine.com

Content by citizen journalists

User Submitted Content Users find stories and submit links

User Submitted Content Sites

• Also known as Bookmarking siteso Digg.como Reddit.como Yahoo Buzz!

• Community Members Vote On Stories• Many, Many, Many Niche Communities

User Rated Content All Social News Sites Depend On This Feature

How News Popularity is Measured

• Voteso Star ratingo Thumbs up or downo Digg or Buzz!

• Commentso Blog commentso Link comments

• News get rated by user participationo Views, Votes, Comments

Other News SourcesPeople express themselves in many ways

• Podcastso Niche news, special interests

• Micro-blogging (micro messaging)o Twitter.como Obama most popular (+129,000 followers)o Real-time updates (virtually) anywhere

• Tumblelogso Tumblr.com

• Video Logs (vlogs)

We don’t have computers because we want to interact with machines; we have them because they allow us to communicate more effectively with other people.Douglas Rushkoff

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Resources

• http://socialnewsblog.blogspot.com• http://slideshare.net/socialnews• http://twitter.com/socialnewsblog