journalism 2.0: the future of news
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Journalism 2.0The future of news
Rebecca MacKinnon
http://Rconversation.blogs.comwww.GlobalVoicesOnline.org
“Read-only” vs. “Read-write”
Citizen Journalism/Citizen’s Media
Dan Gillmor - former San Jose Mercury News
“The former audience”
LECTURE
Journalism 1.0 Conversation
Journalism 2.0
1990’s: Web 1.0
My blog as simple example
Of Web 2.0
Writing...
Linking Out
Links create a web of conversation
screenshot: technorati
appear: google & its links
screenshot: technorati
appear: google & its links
Syndicate
Content is freed of container
New York Times website
Feeds
from NYT
NYT feed in Google Reader
Tagging & Social Bookmarking
Everybody’s “journalism” tag
2006 Chinese Blogger Conference, Hangzhou
Chinese bloggers share coverage of
their activities on photosites like Flickr.com through
the “cnbloggercon” tag
“Baghdad blogger” Salam Pax
“I try to dispel the image that Muslims and Arabs suffer from - mostly by our own doing I have to say - in the rest of the world. I am no missionary and don’t want to be. I run several internet websites that are geared to do just that, create a better understanding that we’re not all nuts hell-bent on world destruction.”
ZOLA & THE NAILHOUSE
• Internet-> traditional media, then mutual reinforcement
• When media coverage was shut down, there was so much on the internet the ban was ineffectual
The New Media Ecosystem
Source: Morgan Stanley October 2004 report: “Update from the Digital World” by Mary Meeker et. al.
Credibility 2.0
Then... Now...
Audience size (market success)
Professional credentials
Peer respect
(community
reputation)
Transparency &
honesty
Then...
High cost of production
Scarcity of space,airtime, etc.
Now...
Low cost of production
Scarcity of attention
Info Supply & Demand 2.0
A portrait of global media attention:(Data from Google News, July 2006)Countries in red have more storiesCountries in blue have fewer(Courtesy Ethan Zuckerman at: http://h2odev.law.harvard.edu/ezuckerman/)
127 million people2nd largest world economy12582 CNN.com stories
130 million people54th largest world economy937 CNN stories
(Data courtesy Ethan Zuckerman http://ethanzuckerman.com/)
Global Voices Online
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“Citizen Journalism”
New Citizen media projects
Business Model 2.0
AudienceViewersReadersCustomers
Community
Newsvine: bought by MSNBC
Gather.com
Washington Post goes 2.0
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Public Radio 2.0 Experiment
Bloggers + Journalists
Obstacles to a truly Global Conversation:
•ATTENTION: The caring problem. What people need to know vs. what they enjoy knowing and talking about.
•LANGUAGE: The internet is becoming more multi-lingual… translation requires effort.
•ACCESS: The people whose voices we most need to hear are the ones who are least able to speak out online. (Internet 40x more expensive for Africans than Americans!)
•CENSORSHIP: Roughly 40 national governments now censor their Internet. (For more info see OpenNet.net)
What does this meanfor journalism
students?My email: [email protected]
Blog: http://rconversation.blogs.comGlobal Voices: http://www.globalvoicesonline.org
JMSC: http://jmsc.hku.hkNew Media Workshop:
http://jmsc.hku.hk/blogs/newmedia“Hong Kong Stories” http://jmsc.hku.hk/hkstories
Credits: Many thanks to Ethan Zuckerman, Isaac Mao, and others for ideas and materials . This work is licensed under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/