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
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Where does this topic fit?
• Internet concepts
– Applications
– Technology
– Implications
• Internet skills
– Application development
– Content creation
– User skills
Citizen journalism
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What point is this slide making?
Pre Internet citizen journalism, March 1991
Do you recognize this event?
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.
Polina Antonova
Video clip, 3m 13s, (highlight at 1m 40 s :-)
Historical archive
Historical archive of Soviet coup attempt traffic
Wikipedia: the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack
The initial page
Visit the Wikipedia page today
Wikipedia after 21 hours 44 minutes
4,780 words
942 edits
149 anonymous
93 unidentifiable
Subsequent refinement
Continued relevance
32081 views in the last 30 days
Social networks: Arab Spring, 2011
"Thank you Facebook"
Bloggers as citizen journalists
Arab Spring archive, 2011
Citizen/conventional journalism
@acarvin
Journalists covering the Syrian civil war
The book
On the Media interview, 1m 27s
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.
Summary
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Usenet (optional material)
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. Describe another
one.
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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-middleeast/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-andtweeting-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-themedia/2013/jan/29/brooke-gladstone-live-andy-carvin/
Andy Carvin’s book, Distant Witness: http://amzn.to/150FyQZ