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Graphic and photo journalismLeveraging new and social media
Sanjana Hattotuwa
TED Fellow 2010Editor, Groundviews (www.groundviews.org)
what is social media?
• Social media uses Internet and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues (one to many) into social media dialogues (many to many). It supports the democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers. (Wikipedia)
what is new media?
• New media is a term meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized, or networked information and communication technologies.
• New media is not television programs, feature films, magazines, books, or paper-based publications. (Wikipedia)
• But increasingly, old media is leveraging the web, Internet and mobiles in generating and disseminating news and information.
social media landscape over 2011
new media foundations
• Blogs
• Social networks (Twitter, Facebook)
• Mobiles: SMS, mobile photography and video
• And making this all possible is ADSL + 3G wireless broadband
what’s new
• Ubiquity of two way communications
• Addressable peoples, even those who IDPs or refugees
• Both news generation and dissemination leverages new media
• Disintermediated models vs. traditional media model
• Citizens as producers
• Low resolution content broadcast on high definition media
old media model
Event / Issue
Journalist
Consumer Mainstream
media
new media models
Event / Issue
Journalist
Consumer Citizen media
Mainstream media
Consumer
the revolution
Journalist Consumer
Journalist Consumer / Witness
News as a conversation
News as a package
key web platformstwitter, flickr, facebook
social networking: facebook600 million+ users
social networking: facebook600 million+ users
what is out there?
commemorating Lasanthahttp://unbowedandunafraid.com
online video: Vikalpa YouTube Channelwww.youtube.com/vikalpasl
boondi: alternative Sinhala critiqueswww.boondi.lk
kottu: blog aggregationwww.kottu.org
kottu: blog aggregationwww.kottu.org
sinhala bloggers union: Sinhala blog aggregationwww.sinhalabloggers.com
sinhala bloggers union: Sinhala blog aggregationwww.sinhalabloggers.com
photography in HD for the web: moving imageswww.movingimages.asia
photography blogs: ‘amateur’ vs. ‘professional’http://is-theblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-york-noir.html?spref=tw
social networking by politicians
social networking: facebook
social networking: facebook
social networking: facebook reach
Avg. FB account: 130 friends
Updates featured on ~929,500+ FB accounts. Instantly.
Groundviews FB page has 7,150+ fans
social networking: facebook reach with $0
how to select & make sense?
curated content
curated content = selecting the best produce
curating news
• Buying fruits of vegetables
• Check price
• Weigh it in one’s hands
• Look at it from all angles
• Look at it in context
• Look at a few, not just one
• Discard if old
• Be suspicious if it looks too good
• Ascertain location where it was produced
• Curating news
• Check authorship
• Check for veracity, quality
• Is it accurate, fair, topical?
• What is the bias? Is it progressive?
• Select a few from many sources
• Discard if out-dated information is presented
• Be cautious of unverified information and breaking news
• Is the producer local or foreign?
curated twitter content on sri lanka: newshttp://twitter.com/groundviews/sl-news
curated twitter content on sri lanka: blogshttp://twitter.com/groundviews/sl-bloggers
examples in visualisation
community sourced mapping
In Columbia, South Carolina, journalists of The State Media Company newsroom noticed something didn’t smell right in their town. It wasn’t corruption, but an actual stink that was permeating the air outside. Betsey Guzior, the features editor, decided to call on the community to help investigate the smell using an open Google Maps.
flooding in Colombohttp://groundviews.org/2010/05/15/colombo-goes-under-water-and-not-for-the-first-time
student unrest in sri lankahttp://groundviews.org/2010/11/04/a-turn-for-the-worse-undergraduate-protests-and-unrest-in-sri-lanka
political hypocrisyhttp://groundviews.org/2010/09/05/a-timeline-of-duplicity-promises-to-abolish-the-executive-presidency
word cloudshttp://groundviews.org/2011/05/11/from-draft-to-official-text-wikileaks-reveals-the-us-response-to-the-end-of-war-in-sri-lanka/
interactive graphicshttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/03/us/20110503-osama-response.html
interactive graphicshttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/faces-of-the-dead.html#/kahalewai_henry_k_jr
infographicshttp://www.smallmeans.com/new-york-times-infographics/
infographicshttp://www.noupe.com/inspiration/stunning-infographics-and-data-visualization.html
managing content: pulling in
essential email: gmail / google account
google search: updates from social media
google image search: visuals from the webhttp://images.google.com
google image subject searchhttp://images.google.com
google news: thousands of sources
google news image search: thousands of news related images
google alerts: thousands of sourceshttp://www.google.com/alerts
google reader: a web based RSS reader
tin eye: checking the web for imageshttp://www.tineye.com
Managing content: Pushing out
wordpress.com: blogging
wordpress.com: blogging via phonehttp://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-voice
wordpress.com: videohttp://videopress.com
ustream.tv: broadcasting via a PC
ustream: mobile phone broadcastinghttp://www.ustream.tv/mobile
wordle: word cloud creationhttp://www.wordle.net
enduring challenges
• Impartial, accurate coverage still vital, increasingly hard to ascertain
• Torrent of information, trickle of knowledge
• Veracity and verifiability
• Eye-witness accounts are partial, subjective
• New media / technology illiteracy even amongst journalists
• Apathy and animosity against citizen journalism
• Licensing and attribution of online content
key points: recap
• New technologies potentially give voice to all citizens
• Be sceptical of new information, but use new media to push and pull content
• Develop media literacy to embrace new technologies
Thank you
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