Mindmeister

The Mindmeister program that was introduced has really helped me organize my thoughts. I often get misdirected onto tangents and forget the real reason I was doing a project. By using a Mindmeister map to get ideas down and then sorted into a logical order, it made the preparing of a project go so much faster.

I accidentally taught my  daughter how to read when she was four years old. I have been wanting to explain this concept to others. By starting with the Mindmaster map, I was able to get the important factors down. This lead to a very quick and easy presentation that I will be uploading next week.

I have made the Learn to Read Mindmeister map available at:



http://www.mindmeister.com/294365293

I highly recommend this program to any student, starting as soon as grade four.

Thursday

Notes from the class discussion:

Review of Critical Thinking
protected by law the same as print journalist

must make an effort to do fact checking

New form Journalism
publish the lede first and then build it as information becomes available

Right side Basic News Writing
ABCs
W5
INCUR PP

Objectivity
Lede
Writing in a Journalistic style rather than a narrative style.

can be taken to the New forms of Journalism

Hacker Journalism
computer activity that may not require a programmer skill set
manage a large amount of data to extract information from it

Contributors to Conservative party compared to appointees to the EI boards
all freely available data that just needed to be analyzed
11 appointees were conservative, one was Liberal

interviewing data, interrogating data,
rather than interviewing witnesses

Daily Reflection on eJournalism

May 13-16, 2013
I had planned to spend the weekend getting caught up on what had been happening in the eJournalism course. I got caught up on my sleep instead.

Tuesday - Count Down to the End of this Class

As the last day approaches only six sleeps away, there may be a few nights without sleep.



Rent seeking behaviour
people own certain values and rent them out.
they believe they have a right to rent them out.

This was the day the power went out at BU. It is enlightening to realize how dependent we are on electricity. Then it was pointed out that many in the world experience power outages many times a day.

Wednesday

A quick summary of what happened in class on Wednesday,  22 May 2013.

UStream was attempted with Jean.

It is not great for interaction like Skype, but more for broadcasting to many people. Anyone with the link can join into the broadcast. They have to sign in to write in the comment box.

Journalism is saying something that someone does not want you to say. Everything else is just public relations.

Citizen Journalism and Global Journalism had a good example. Harper landed in Peru after snubbing the Canadian media. The first question a Peruvian reporter asked was about Nigel's cheque to the Senator.

Within twenty minutes, I had UStream uploaded onto my laptop and  iPhone, signed into the account, verified with emailed link. It took a minute but I was able to find the link to the buejournalism.

Logical fallacy - AC/DC conflict featured on Murdoch Mysteries. I may kill an elephant so we should not use it.

Holding people to account is difficult when the people in power own the media.

Shirky - Here Comes Everybody. The positive side of the internet is that it has given everyone the opportunity to be a journalist. The negative side of the interenet is that it has given everyone the opportunity to be a journalist.

Cognitive surplus - taken from television viewing time. When asked where people get the time to create everything on the internet, the biggest drop is the time spent with not interacting with the television. The population has moved from being passive receptors of broadcast news to active participants of the news stream.

Herman, E. S., and Chomsky, N. (2002). Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1st ed.). Pantheon.  "Thought control in a democratic society." 

Discussed Ryan Holiday's book, "Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_Me,_I%27m_Lying

Moved to the left side of Mind Meister and the New form Journalism branch.

Because it is so new, there are  no textbooks. It is difficult to write a textbook when the field is still evolving. The best skill to for the new journalist to develop is their critical thinking, just like the old form journalist. The style is the same, format similar, and the still needs news value. The delivery system is the big difference.

The discussion of journalism became so interesting that I focused on the discussion rather than taking detailed notes. Some of the topics that were discussed include:

Gonzo Journalism 1972 election
on contract with Rolling Stone Magazine, serialized
reporting with a fax machine, large, bread box size,
looking for telephone jack to plug it in and send the story.

The least factual, most accurate ...

radiacally new format of journalism
 
Hunter S. Thompson

Guerrilla Journalism
define guerrilla

occupy wall street
idle no more
tweaking the nose of power

Participatory Journalism

people like to share
Look what I did.

and can do it easily.
My eighty year old mother can Skype.
changed the way journalism is done.

twitter for speed, print for detail, online print sites for details

Wikipedia editor

amazing, entense amount of activity on Wikipedia]

Blogs have exploded.

Drudge report

Full fledged participatory
wiki journalism, Wikipedia
Boing Boing - participate as a journalist or as a commentor


Collaborative and contributory sites
Reddit
Slashdot

Thin Media
list server
Google groups
     Yahoo groups



a lot of ridiculous ones but still more productive than watching television commercials

Personal Broadcasting sites
UStream
Blogtalk Radio
Newsletters

Paper.It
Scoop .it
Spundge
one click and put it in your newspaper

super villan censored

Poynter
a good journalism school


scoop it example

giving credit

Ambient Journalism
twitter

Hacker Journalism
getting information that others do not want you to have
legality is questionable
holding authority (major corporations) to account

adbusters
trying to immunize us fromall the advertising and commercials.

Pharma
Makeup
Monsanto

Culture jamming
corporate culture
adbusters.org

amnesty international now a corporation
supported by US government so can not report about Gitmo

Punk Rock sold out to commercial success and lost their face

How to become a hacker
crackers
script keys
ethos and codes

anonymous

black hat and white hat hackers

code academy

w3school
Digital Humanities

when is a journalist protected?
Is a web blogger protected the same way as a journalist?

Yes, Court judgement.
http://www.caj.ca/?p=358

http://www.cba.org/BC/public_media/rights/240.aspx
Defamation


Whose beard are you pulling

http://scc.lexum.org/decisia-scc-csc/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/7837/index.do


http://www.rtndacanada.com/ETHICS/codeofethics.asp
code of ethics for eJournalism

14 points

Advertorial
Is it really an objective article or is the purpose really to sell an item?


There is so much I could go back to and look at deeper. Maybe after the final project is posted, I will have the time for further research on these interesting topics.

My Final Project

I have created a PickaKucha presentation about this eJournalism course.

It is on my wiki pages:


http://maryjones1909.wikispaces.com/

Brandon Sun Publisher Sits at My Luncheon Table

This event has so much to do with eJournalism that I have to blog about it even if I preceed it with a "Name Dropping" warning.

The publisher of the Brandon Sun, Eric Lawson, was attending the Brandon University Foundation Annual Luncheon. Because of my late husband's association with this institution, I am sent an invitation as well. I am not too familiar with the members of this elite group of citizens so chose a chair at the edge and chatted with one of the clerical workers that I had dealt with. A nice lady approached the table and confirmed that the two seats on my left were still vacant. Out of the thirty to forty tables, Eric Lawson ended up at my table.

So the boring pre-meal socializing suddenly became interesting as we compared a few of the changes happening to Journalism from his point of view and my experiences in the course. He had come from New Brunswick and a job with the Irving newspaper group (part of Irving Shipbuilding and Irving Oil).

I was able to hold my tongue and not explain how upset I was about the loss of my paperboy who also played with my kittens and made sure I was up and dressed by 8:00 AM every morning so he could greet and cuddle the balls of fur.

His wife was also very interested when I explained the diversity of the students and how everyone is bringing a unique point of view to share with the rest of the class.

So, the publisher of the Brandon Sun has been made aware of the eJournalism course now offered at Brandon Unversity. Karma must have guided us towards the same table. How else do you explain our encounter?