Sunday, 26 May 2013

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.








No comments:

Post a Comment