Gigacom gives its latest thinking on how social media has changed news-gathering. (The post is not local, but it pertains to Xpress' now 24-year-old experiment with citizen journalism, and raises issues pertaining to that experiment's ongoing evolution.). Here are a few excerpts from the article:
...everyone now has the opportunity to function as a journalist, even for a short time...
A new study of the way information flowed during the Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt earlier this year paints a fascinating picture of how what some call “news as a process” works, and the roles bloggers, mainstream media and other actors play during a breaking news event. More than anything, it’s a portrait of what the news looks like now.
The study, entitled “The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions,” was published in the International Journal of Communications ... (A PDF version of the study is available here.) ...
Social media is called social for a reason. It’s about human beings connecting with other human beings around an event, and the more that media outlets try to stifle the human aspect of these tools — through repressive social-media policies, for example — the less likely they will be to benefit from using them. ...
....it’s easy to get distracted by how chaotic the process seems, and how difficult it is to separate the signal from the noise. But more information is better — even if it requires new skills on the part of journalists when it comes to filtering that information ...
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Thanks to @Thunderpig on Twitter for the heads-up about this article.Read the full article
...everyone now has the opportunity to function as a journalist, even for a short time...
A new study of the way information flowed during the Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt earlier this year paints a fascinating picture of how what some call “news as a process” works, and the roles bloggers, mainstream media and other actors play during a breaking news event. More than anything, it’s a portrait of what the news looks like now.
The study, entitled “The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions,” was published in the International Journal of Communications ... (A PDF version of the study is available here.) ...
Social media is called social for a reason. It’s about human beings connecting with other human beings around an event, and the more that media outlets try to stifle the human aspect of these tools — through repressive social-media policies, for example — the less likely they will be to benefit from using them. ...
....it’s easy to get distracted by how chaotic the process seems, and how difficult it is to separate the signal from the noise. But more information is better — even if it requires new skills on the part of journalists when it comes to filtering that information ...
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Thanks to @Thunderpig on Twitter for the heads-up about this article.Read the full article
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