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Alfred Hermida
UBC Graduate School of Journalism
CAJ Innovate | 30:01:10
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Trafigura Twitterstorm
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Trafigura Twitterstorm
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Trafigura Twitterstorm
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Trafigura Twitterstorm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2010/jan/25/alan-rusbridger-hugh-cudlipp
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Trafigura Twitterstorm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2010/jan/25/alan-rusbridger-hugh-cudlipp
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One of many
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Web 2.0 = Social media
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Web 2.0 = Social media
Participatory culture “contrasts with older notions of passive media spectatorship. Rather than talking about media producers and consumers occupying separate roles, we might now see them as participants who interact with each other according to a new set of rules that none of us fully understands.”
Jenkins (2006), Convergence Culture
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What makes it social media
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What makes it social media
Content
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What makes it social media
Content
Convergence
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What makes it social media
Content
Convergence
Collaboration
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What makes it social media
Content
Convergence
Collaboration
Community
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What makes it social media
Content
Convergence
Collaboration
Community
Conversation
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Joining the conversation
A good newspaper, I supposed, is a nation talking to itself
Arthur Miller, London Observer, November 26, 1961
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Shift in journalism
Deuze (2003), The web and its journalisms. New Media and Society, (5/2003)
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Shift in journalism
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Three principles
Photo: Matt Hamm: http://flickr.com/photos/matthamm/
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Three principles
Photo: Matt Hamm: http://flickr.com/photos/matthamm/
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Three principles
Be human
Photo: Matt Hamm: http://flickr.com/photos/matthamm/
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Three principles
Be humanBe honest
Photo: Matt Hamm: http://flickr.com/photos/matthamm/
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Three principles
Be humanBe honestBe involved
Photo: Matt Hamm: http://flickr.com/photos/matthamm/
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Rory’s experience
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Rory’s experience
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“I still think that experimenting with everything from social networks to YouTube to blogs is a useful way for broadcasters to get into conversation with the audience. But better keep the dog out of it.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/11/close_to_you.html
Rory’s experience
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Twitter time
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Twitter time
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UK National newspapers - 131 Twitter accounts - 1.47 million followers
Twitter correspondent - Ruth Barnett, Sky News
MuckRuck.com - Aggregator of journalists’ tweets
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“A toy for bored celebrities and high-school girls” Maureen Dowd, 2009
“It’s like searching for medicaladvice in an online world ofquacks and cures” Ellen Goodman, 2009
“Twitter? I won’t touch it.It’s all garbage.”Journalist quoted in New York Times
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Multi-faceted and fragmented
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The whole picture
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Twitter in journalism
Content distribution
Beat reporting
Crowdsourcing
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Content distribution
Drive traffic
Keep it on topic
Content, content, content
Don’t automate, be a filter
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Beat reporting
Early warning
Identify trends
Finding sources
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Beat reporting
Early warning
Identify trends
Finding sources
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Beat reporting
Early warning
Identify trends
Finding sources
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Beat reporting
Early warning
Identify trends
Finding sources
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Crowdsourcing
Works best if you build a large audience/following
Think about the audience you are asking
Questions open to opinion, ideas tend to work best
Connect with community
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Crowdsourcing
Works best if you build a large audience/following
Think about the audience you are asking
Questions open to opinion, ideas tend to work best
Connect with community
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Three principles
Photo: Matt Hamm: http://flickr.com/photos/matthamm/
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Three principles
Be humanBe honestBe involved
Photo: Matt Hamm: http://flickr.com/photos/matthamm/
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Further reading:
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism social media course
http://bit.ly/socmediaskills