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Graphic and photo journalism Leveraging new and social media Sanjana Hattotuwa TED Fellow 2010 Editor, Groundviews (www.groundviews.org)

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Page 1: New media for graphics designers and photographers

Graphic and photo journalismLeveraging new and social media

Sanjana Hattotuwa

TED Fellow 2010Editor, Groundviews (www.groundviews.org)

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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)

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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.

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social media landscape over 2011

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new media foundations

• Blogs

• Social networks (Twitter, Facebook)

• Mobiles: SMS, mobile photography and video

• And making this all possible is ADSL + 3G wireless broadband

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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

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old media model

Event / Issue

Journalist

Consumer Mainstream

media

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new media models

Event / Issue

Journalist

Consumer Citizen media

Mainstream media

Consumer

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the revolution

Journalist Consumer

Journalist Consumer / Witness

News as a conversation

News as a package

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key web platformstwitter, flickr, facebook

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twitter: topical, pithy perspectiveswww.twitter.com

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twitter: topical, pithy perspectiveswww.twitter.com

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twitter: topical, pithy perspectiveswww.twitter.com

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social networking: facebook600 million+ users

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social networking: facebook600 million+ users

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online photo sharing: flickrwww.flickr.com

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what is out there?

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bearing witness: Groundviews www.groundviews.org

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commemorating Lasanthahttp://unbowedandunafraid.com

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online video: Vikalpa YouTube Channelwww.youtube.com/vikalpasl

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news from provinces: Perambara www.perambara.org

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boondi: alternative Sinhala critiqueswww.boondi.lk

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kottu: blog aggregationwww.kottu.org

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kottu: blog aggregationwww.kottu.org

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sinhala bloggers union: Sinhala blog aggregationwww.sinhalabloggers.com

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sinhala bloggers union: Sinhala blog aggregationwww.sinhalabloggers.com

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photography in HD for the web: moving imageswww.movingimages.asia

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photography blogs: ‘amateur’ vs. ‘professional’http://is-theblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-york-noir.html?spref=tw

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social networking by politicians

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social networking: facebook

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social networking: facebook

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social networking: facebook reach

Avg. FB account: 130 friends

Updates featured on ~929,500+ FB accounts. Instantly.

Groundviews FB page has 7,150+ fans

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social networking: facebook reach with $0

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how to select & make sense?

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curated content

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curated content = selecting the best produce

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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?

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curated twitter content on sri lanka: newshttp://twitter.com/groundviews/sl-news

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curated twitter content on sri lanka: blogshttp://twitter.com/groundviews/sl-bloggers

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examples in visualisation

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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.

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flooding in Colombohttp://groundviews.org/2010/05/15/colombo-goes-under-water-and-not-for-the-first-time

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managing content: pulling in

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essential email: gmail / google account

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google search: updates from social media

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google image search: visuals from the webhttp://images.google.com

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google image subject searchhttp://images.google.com

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google news: thousands of sources

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google news image search: thousands of news related images

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google alerts: thousands of sourceshttp://www.google.com/alerts

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google reader: a web based RSS reader

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tin eye: checking the web for imageshttp://www.tineye.com

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Managing content: Pushing out

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wordpress.com: blogging

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wordpress.com: blogginghttp://si.wordpress.com

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wordpress.com: blogginghttp://ta.wordpress.com

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wordpress.com: blogging via phonehttp://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-voice

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ustream.tv: broadcasting via a PC

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ustream: mobile phone broadcastinghttp://www.ustream.tv/mobile

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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

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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

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Thank you