week 8 : 21 november
online media
Highlights From Student Posts[back to week 8 ]
- Barrie
- No post
- Belle
- We talked about the question-Quis custodiet ipsos custodes- last week, which means who shall watch the watchers themselves. I think newsblogs indeed break the technical restrict and make news industry a common behavior in people’s daily lives. Thus, the “mass” media is truly belongs to the mass.
- Chloe
- Another thing I'm interested in is the reasons that blogs become a significant journalism tool. I think there are some factors:
1. Easy to use : setting up a blog needs a few minutes without special skills or knowledge. In, addition, publishing a blog is extremely easy. You just click the link to the” publish” button, enter a title, type some words. It's easy and good for everyone to report news.
2. Cost less: you should not pay for setting up a blog. Some companies provide blog's space for everyone to use.
3. Multi-way communication : in the blogosphere, we can discuss some issue with different people. Also, you can link other attractive blogs from a original blog.
4. Blog contents can be retrieved from word documents, pictures, and even videos. Audiences can understand an event more by watching real a documentary film.
- Another thing I'm interested in is the reasons that blogs become a significant journalism tool. I think there are some factors:
- Courtney
- no post
- Elina
- In the blog world, personal views can be posted with more extensive real images and context reaching audiences from local to national to even international. What is the cost to do this? Absolutely free. Dissemination of information this way, will send stronger messages that saves money, and influence beyond political, cultural, and social boundaries. [See blog post for cartoon]
- Jeanne
- No post.
- Kai-Chen
- After reading “We the Media”, I think the concept what Dan Gillmor implies is that mass media, which was initially controlled by media organization is gradually transformed to “public media” or “republic media”, which is led by audience.
- Kevin
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Gillmoor's observations in Chapter 3, "The Gates Come Down," . . . the fact that all eyes are upon us, are useful in several respects. He brings home the interactive nature of this medium as open season on anyone, anytime. ... If some businesses are now starting to get that participatory, interactive relationships with the youth demographic are good for them, then the web's benefits are being institutionalized or co-opted as we used to say back in the day - my day, that is. ...
His example of McSpotlight which pushed McDonald's to pursue legal action and seek damages from an entity that had virtually no money because it told an alternative 'truth' about the corporation's dealings, shows how quickly a business can lose in the traditional PR game when being pursued by the pesky few. . . If you ever want to find out how bruising McDonald's can be, just see how quickly their attorneys will turn on you for even the most innocuous use of the letters "Mc" in front of something - Starbucks is another one that is extremely protective of its brand. Of course, there's a place for that, but in some cases it's the sublime feeding on the ridiculous!
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Gillmoor's observations in Chapter 3, "The Gates Come Down," . . . the fact that all eyes are upon us, are useful in several respects. He brings home the interactive nature of this medium as open season on anyone, anytime. ... If some businesses are now starting to get that participatory, interactive relationships with the youth demographic are good for them, then the web's benefits are being institutionalized or co-opted as we used to say back in the day - my day, that is. ...
- Kristina
- Professional journalists, and in effect their employers, rely on their credibility to do good work. Because the nature of their work requires them to be fair and even-handed, it is not surprising that some newspapers are hesitant to allow journalists to maintain blogs. If a political reporter writes her opinions on a candidate in a blog it would obviously be inappropriate for her to cover that candidate. However, if a political reporter keeps a blog with the latest developments in a candidate's campaign (assuming she isn't only writing about one candidate) such as campaign contributions of fundraising stops, these are details that might not necessarily make it into the paper, but which some people might be interested in knowing about.
- Luke
- no post
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Magnus
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- Mini
- The change in the media landscape has tremendously changed the politics and governance in the world. The revolution in the media has made the news and information to be accessed faster and easier then ever. The publication platform of the news is going to be across the countries; in the other words, to be global. As a result, the decisions made by government need to consider globalize responses but not only the responses in the nation. Furthermore, the innovation and popularity of Blogs made the government organizations hard to influence the voice from public. consequently, government organization needs to be more self disciplined and to be able to accept advises from public.
- Nancy
- Group 5
- Nika
- Group 5
- Randa
- Group 5
- Rex
- [T]he allure of Gillmor's treatise was that it gave a lot of people in the industry hope -- hope that if we can prove our flexibility, if we can get our hands around social media and collaborative news-making and audience participation, then maybe, just maybe, we (journalists) will all still have a job in five years...
The chapter that our group is assigned is titled "The Former Audience Joins the Party." Its function is to invigorate the activist wing of the journalism field, calling to the stand DIY organizations to take back the media: "The grassroots are transcending the pallid consumerism that has characterized news coverage and consumption in the past half-century or more."
However, there's a small point in the text that I'd like to focus on, which I've been thinking about for a couple years. The germ of the idea started with reading about Back To Iraq in this book. Quickly told, Back To Iraq was a blog by a former AP reporter, Chris Allbritton, who had been in Iraq during the first Gulf War. He wanted to return to the region, but do so outside of the confines of an embedded reporter for a mainstream news organization. So he started a blog that asked users for financial contributions to fund his return to Iraq. After Wired News picked up his story, Allbritton made enough money from user donations to go to Iraq and report on it independently.... Now, this might not seem peculiar at first, but when you start to think about it, you have to wonder: is this a form of vigilante reporting ?
- [T]he allure of Gillmor's treatise was that it gave a lot of people in the industry hope -- hope that if we can prove our flexibility, if we can get our hands around social media and collaborative news-making and audience participation, then maybe, just maybe, we (journalists) will all still have a job in five years...
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Stephanie
- Having learned about Wikis through this class I discovered the collaborative contributions which make up Wikipedia “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit,” in conversation with some friends, not all had realized that. One person’s response was, “That’s horrible! I’ve been using this for school and any random Joe can write something?!” Not until describing how it could mean people are likely to edit out misinformation, did my friend see some restored benefit in Wikipedia. Gilmore quotes a Wikipedia founder defending its trustworthy, neutral tone “The only way you can write something that survives is that someone who’s your diametrical opposite can agree with it (149).” This is definitely an example of a format where the audience is more engaged; they make the news and check it too.
- Steve
- Gillmor... was a mass reality check of the evolution over time of the effects of freedom of press... I like what Alvin Toffler said, Information technology would lead -- among many other things -- to mass customization, disintermediation, and media convergence.
- Tony (Fu-Yuan)
- When I was doing my past paper and googled two days ago, I tried to find out some history of the animation. Then, I find out the first animation is Humorous Phase of Funny Face , and the introduction is "He refined the film again and again. Finally he had done a film that was closely to the animaion now." (translated from Chinese)When I used keyword "Humorous Phase of Funny Face," there are many links showed by google, but the introduction was all the same: He refined the film again and again blah blah, no except. Finally, I found that the name was wrong. The first animation is Humorous Phase s of Funny Face s , and I found many useful information with this keyword. As for the original one, lots of people copied the wrong information to everywhere; that's incredible.
- Vaun
- Group 5