Teaching Citizen Journalism Tools and Techniques to Student-Journalists

Teaching Citizen Journalism Tools and Techniques to Student-Journalists Kenny Smith www.kennysmith.org www.twitter.com/kennysmith

Social media
Facebook
Twitter
Few, if any of the other platforms

Twitter stats
This week at Chirp:
Twitter has 105,779,710 registered users
300,000 new users sign up per day
Twitter receives 180 million unique visitors per month
75% of Twitter traffic comes from third-party applications
60% of all tweets come from third-party apps
There are 600 million search queries on Twitter per day
There are over 100,000 Twitter applications
37% of active Twitter users use their phone to tweet
LOC archives
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/just_the_facts_statistics_from_twitter_chirp.php

Facebook student stats 36% reported logging on to Facebook every day 21% reported logging on to Facebook several times per day ( Jones, Johnson-Yale, Millermaier, Seoane Perez, 2009)

Feast of feeds
Yahoo Pipes – an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. pipes.yahoo.com
Wikis – simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together. www.wikispaces.com, et al
Twitterfall – view Twitter trends and patterns. Twitterfall.com
Delicious – social bookmarks. del.icio.us

Local product
On the ground coverage
Service to community

Jeff Jarvis
Formerly of advance.net
CUNY journalism professor
Adviser to many start-ups
www.buzzmachine.com
Author, What Would Google Do?
“ Do what you do best, link to the rest.”

Samford Bubble

Samford Crimson, SNN, al.com

Community Contributions and the Culture of Feedback
Audience voice.
What does the community know?
What troubles them?
What question do they wish I’d really asked the county commissioner?
Conversation.

Departmental Culture
Converging a department’s media offerings.
Exodus.
Day One.

Game Changers
Cell phone
iPad
apps
Droid
Flips
Evolving online technologies

Tools vs. Arts
Winners vs. Losers in teaching to tools and software.
The love of learning.
The forward thinking of college students.
Understanding the need of the tool.

The Foundation Stone
“Vigorous writing is concise.”
“Omit needless words.”
Elements of Style

The overview given
Storytelling

Storytelling
HOWS
WHYS

Teaching Citizen Journalism Tools and Techniques to Student-Journalists Kenny Smith www.kennysmith.org www.twitter.com/kennysmith

Teaching Citizen Journalism Tools and Techniques to Student-Journalists

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