Week 6: Networks - Online News
tuesday 6 feb
- As students arrive ... take this time to read classmate blogs
- Lecture / Reading Discussion / Discussion Leaders (ppt)
- Does capitalism stifle media outlets? Is commercialization of media outlets avoidable? Or inevitable?
- "A shallow citizenry can be turned into a dangerous mob more easily than an informed one." How has blogging contributed to "shallow citizenry"?
- Are we "going back in time" to a point when newpapers were for an elite class and everything else was for everybody else?
- Resources for podcasters: Writing For The Ear
- Examples - how to cite digital resources (such as Wikipedia dates!) (pdf - requires UW login)
How to cite: Parent Report, WikiPedia, News "Interactive" (Fox)
thursday 8 feb
- Discussion:
- Do you think podcast as a form of communication will be short lived or will this be a new auditory medium for a long time? Why?
- Would you download and listen to a full hour program on your iPod? Why or why not?
- How would the history of the United States be different if we didn't have the First Amendment?
- How might blogging lead to a group mentality based off of half truths?
- "Listeners are interested in interesting advertising," according to Kris Jacob of PodShow. "They don't want the same thing they're getting in the mainstream. They want to participate in that process." How does this relate to Cluetrain's 95 Theses (week 5)?
- Do you agree with Rosenberg's idea that newspapers are sticking around? How long until (or will) the print publication industry die out?
- Does the class think that one day podcasting will be completely overtaken with advertising like the impact ads had on TV, magazines, webpages, etc? OR will this form of new media remain clean of ads, as it seems consumers would like it? If so, who pays the producer?
- Is the elimination of the middle-man in all its respective media sources a good thing for the public, or do we need that professional filter and summarizer?
- Is production value as important a factor in judging online content as it is on TV and print? Why?
- Media & Blogs Exercise
- RSS Readers - Bloglines demo
- Example - NYT Project - 2006 , Top 100 US Newspapers (the handout in class)
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Group Assignment - distribute Top100 list (1 per group).
Each group completes one "newspaper" table (download the Word document) for each
media outlet on the handout as well as
these other media outlets:
1 - FOX - BBC 2 - MSNBC - NPR 3 - CNN - Sun (UK) 4 - ABC - Guardian (UK) 5 - CBS - Independent (UK)
- Assignment due Thursday at 11.30 via eSubmit (one word document with all student assigned tables). Extra credit points if the assignment is turned in by noon on Wednesday.
assignments for next week
- Reading Reflection due 9 pm Mon : [ 1 post]