Politics & Social Media

* Kathy Gill (University of Washington)

* Sumit Basu (Microsoft Research) * David Postman (Seattle Times)

* Derek Young (Exit133)

Digital Technologies …

Create perfect copies Collapse space Collapse time

Trent LottDan RatherRev. Wright

BLOGS: DEMOCRATIZING THE NEWS?

Sumit Basu, Microsoft Research

News Was Once for the Lucky Few…

Newsprint for All (or Most)

Taking It Online: (All) News for All!

Blogs: News *from* All

Providing commentary on news events, stories, people, issues, etc.

Aggregating articles on a story

Surfacing “hidden” articles or events

A playlist for news A conversation about

news Doesn’t this make

everything better?

How Does This Change News? More participants in the news

Greater participation by producers and readers

A greater diversity of opinion Checks and balances on news bias

An overwhelming amount of news Hundreds of news sources Thousands of political blogs What are you going to read?

The risk of getting even more polarized

So How Do We Put it all Together?

Links

EPIC2015: www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/epic or www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqif6ZSlL4M

Exit133.com iReport.com memeorandum.com/river and

memeorandum.com Newsvine.com Postman on Politics:

blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/davidpostman UK PM Is On Twitter:

twitter.com/steverubel/statuses/778169456