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Citizen journalism. S kills : none C oncepts : citizen journalist, use of Usenet, Wikipedia, blogs, Twitter and Facebook by citizen journalists, news archives, the interaction between citizen and mainstream journalism, Usenet.

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  1. Citizen journalism Skills: none Concepts: citizen journalist, use of Usenet, Wikipedia, blogs, Twitter and Facebook by citizen journalists, news archives, the interaction between citizen and mainstream journalism, Usenet This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

  2. Where does this topic fit? • Internet concepts • Applications • Technology • Implications • Internet skills • Application development • Content creation • User skills

  3. Citizen journalism → What point is this slide making?

  4. Pre Internet citizen journalism, March 1991

  5. Internet citizen journalism, August 1991 Protests in Moscow Kremvax They try to close all mass media, they stopped CNN an hour ago, and Soviet TV transmits opera and old movies. But, thank Heaven, they don't consider RELCOM mass media or they simply forgot about it.  Now we transmit information enough to put us in prison for the rest of our life. PolinaAntonova Video clip, 3m 13s, (highlight at 1m 40 s :-)

  6. Historical archive Historical archive of Soviet coup attempt traffic

  7. Wikipedia: the Mumbai terrorist attacks Kensplanet: “The 26 November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks were a series of attacks by terrorists in Mumbai, India. 25 are injured and 2 killed.”

  8. Wikipedia after 21 hours 44 minutes • 4,780 words • 942 edits • 149 anonymous • 93 unidentifiable

  9. Subsequent refinement

  10. Continued relevance 32081 views in the last 30 days

  11. Social networks: Arab Spring, 2011 • "Thank you Facebook"

  12. Bloggers as citizen journalists Arab Spring archive, 2011

  13. Citizen/conventional journalism @acarvin

  14. Journalists covering the Syrian civil war The book On the Media interview, 1m 27s

  15. Twitter for Good is a how-to book with tips and case studies for organizations and individuals that want to use Twitter for good. It's oriented toward social action, but many of the recommendations are also relevant to any organization that wants to use Twitter for public relations, marketing, and customer or community relationship management.

  16. Summary →

  17. Usenet (optional material)

  18. Self-study questions How does the current Wikipedia article on the Mumbai terrorist attacks compare with the article at the time this presentation was created? Has it continued to evolve? (You can find many statistics under the History tab on the Wikipedia page). We have looked at four examples of citizen journalism. Find another one.

  19. Resources • Video of the Rodney King beating (9m 40s):http://youtu.be/4OauOPTwbqk • For more on the Soviet coup attempt including articles, quotes from participants and a link to the historical archive of all network traffic: http://www.cs.oswego.edu/~dab/coup/ • News coverage of the Soviet coup attempt with an interview of me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VAHy76QO7o&feature=player_embedded • Global Voices extensive archives and The Guardian’s review of the Arab Spring http://bit.ly/xIShqt • Wikipedia page on the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2008_Mumbai_attacks • Washington Post article on Andy Carvin: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/npr-andy-carvin-tweeting-the-middle-east/2011/04/06/AFcSdhSD_story.html • PBS interview of Andy Carvin discussing his methodology (7m 28s):http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/02/nprs-andy-carvin-on-tracking-and-tweeting-revolutions.html • Tweeting graphic videos from Syria, OnTheMedia, February 10, 2012 http://www.onthemedia.org/tags/andy_carvin/ • Video interview of Andy Carvin (65m 5s) http://www.onthemedia.org/blogs/on-the-media/2013/jan/29/brooke-gladstone-live-andy-carvin/ • Andy Carvin’s book, Distant Witness: http://amzn.to/150FyQZ

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