Journalism, Blogging and the Real Time Web

Journalism, Blogging and the Real-Time Web
Kathy E. Gill
12 October 2009

Journalism is, in the words of James W. Carey: “our day book, our collective diary, which records our common life. That which goes unrecorded goes unpreserved except in the vanishing moment of our individual lives.”

Media Consumption Timeline

A Short Internet Timeline
November 1990: one web host (CERN)
1994: the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives added web servers
1994: the San Jose Mercury News launched the first online newspaper
1998: ~300 million web pages
2000: Google had indexed 1B web pages
July 2008: Google had indexed 1T web pages

Abbreviated Blogging Timeline
1999: Yahoo! buys GeoCities, host to 3.5 million individual Web sites (most abandoned!)
1999: the Poynter Institute starts the “MediaNews” blog
2002: Google buys Blogger; estimate of 500,000 blogs worldwide in total
February 2002: Salon and Fox News add blogs
2003: Iraq war gives rise to war blogger
2009: 6 million blogs on Wordpress.com; >1B monthly pageviews; Yahoo! shutters GeoCities

Real-Time Reporting
The Charlotte Observer used a blog format to report on Hurricane Bonnie in August 1998; “Dispatches from the Coast” is the first known use of blog to cover a breaking news story.

What Changed?

Increasingly Disintermediated

TransmissionNetworks

Transmission Speed

Enter: The Real-Time Web

Twitter & Iran
Amplified voices of dissent
Facilitated misinformation (intentional and unintentional)
Incomplete story
Emotional
Triggered MSM response

Experiments In Live Tweets
Oregonian (note date launched)
Multi-organization collaboration – Washington Floods, 2009
A Contrarian View of Twitter and Iran, June 2009

Rise Of The SmartPhone

April 2009 “Mobile Technographics®”
Mobile Data Usage Cuts Across Age Groups

June 2009 “Working iPhone Owners Tap The Mobile Internet”
More Working iPhone Owners Use Social Media

April 2009 “Mobile Technographics®”
Mobile Technographics: Understanding The Connected Consumer

Summary
Blogging is part of the web’s evolutionary path
The real time web (Twitter et al) is the next mediamorphosis
Impact on civic life will depend on media literacy efforts

License
Creative Commons, share-and-share alike, attribution, non-commercial
Kathy E. Gill@kegillkegill@uw.eduhttp://faculty.washington.edu/kegillhttp://wiredpen.com/

Credits
Kent State, photo John Paul Filo,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
Tank Man, http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behind-the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/
Death of NedaAgha-Solton, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan

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