User Generated VS Journalism

User Generated VS Journalism BarCamp Yerevan 19 April, 2009 Shushan Harutyunyan /blansh/

“ History”  Welcome to your world… User Generated VS Journalism BarCamp Yerevan 19 April, 2009

What is user generated?
User generated content, also known as Consumer Generated Media, User created Content or Social media refers to various kinds of media content, publicly available, that are produced by end-users.
The term entered mainstream usage during 2005 having arisen in web publishing and new media content production circles. Its use for a wide range of applications including problem processing, news, gossip and research reflects the expansion of media production through new technologies that are accessible and affordable to the general public.
All digital media technologies are included, such as question-answer databases, digital video, blogging, podcasting, mobile phone photography and wikis. In addition to these technologies, user generated content may also employ a combination of open source, free software, and flexible licensing or related agreements to further reduce the barriers to collaboration, skill-building and discovery.
User Generated VS Journalism BarCamp Yerevan 19 April, 2009

What is user generated?
Blogging platforms (Livejournal, Wordpress, Vox, Blogger(service) TypePad)
Microblogs, reference, crowdsourcing(Digg, Twitter, Mixx, Reddit)
Social communities (Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Friendster)
Social network aggregation (FriendFeed, Youmeo, Mybloglog, Plaxo)
Multimedia sharing systems (Flickr, Zooomr, YouTube, Last.fm)
“ Wikis” (Wikipedia, PBwiki, Wetpain)

M i lions of active users create content every second
MySpace - 246,351,193
Facebook -124,000,000
Windows Live Spaces - 120,000,000
Friendster - 80,000,000
Hi5 - 80,000,000
LinkedIn - 30,000,000
Odnoklassniki.ru - 22,000,000
LiveJournal - 16,723,587
Twitter - 2,200,000

Change s 
Web 1.0: Democratized access to information
Web 2.0: Democratized participation

We Media
T he people formerly known as the audience," who“ were on the receiving end of a media system that ran one way, in a broadcasting pattern, with high entry fees and a few firms competing to speak very loudly while the rest of the population listened in isolation from one another— and who today are not in a situation like that at all .
The people formerly known as the audience are simply the public made realer, less fictional, more able, less predictable.
Social media are primarily Internet - and mobile-based tools for sharing and discussing information among human beings

We media-citizen journalism
Citizen journalism, also known as public or participatory journalism or democratic journalism or user generated journalism , is the act of non-professionals "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information .
Mark Glasser, a longtime freelance journalist who frequently writes on new media issues, gets to the heart of it: The idea behind citizen journalism is that people without professional journalism training can use the tools of modern technology and the global distribution of the Internet to create, augment or fact-check media on their own or in collaboration with others.

We media - citizen journalism User Generated VS Journalism BarCamp Yerevan 19 April, 2009 Too many “ways” for assigning a message to a wide mass ...

Social Media and User-Generated Content for Journalists
Why not to “be” as “others” do? Why not to use Web-2.0 to “be better” journalist?
User Generated VS Journalism BarCamp Yerevan 19 April, 2009 Just an example. Social Media (especially b logs) are strongly influencing search engine results and can drive traffic to important topics ...

User generated in your daily “journalistic work” User Generated VS Journalism BarCamp Yerevan 19 April, 2009
Listen to them and thair conversations
Focus on their problems

Give them a chance to publish ed in your source
The blogs on ...
All of YouTube ...
iReport ... /CNN iReport /
Comments on articles ...
D iscussion boards ...
R eviews on ... / E x. Amazon /
Groups in social communities ...

Give them a chance to publish ed in your source User Generated VS Journalism BarCamp Yerevan 19 April, 2009

Be creative “using” user generated 
/think how can you benefit.../

Manifest / W eb 2.0 journalism/
Im hard bloggin’ journalist
This means in particular
I believe in new media, I believe in people
I believe in open sourced journalism and completely transparent reporting
And i ’ m not only for democratized access to information
I ’ m for democratized participation ...
You?

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User Generated VS Journalism

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