Journalism, Blogging and the Real Time Web

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    1. Journalism, Blogging and the Real-Time Web
      Kathy E. Gill
      12 October 2009
    2. 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.”
    3. Media Consumption Timeline
    4. 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
    5. 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
    6. 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.
    7. 1970
    8. 1989
    9. 2009
    10. What Changed?
    11. Increasingly Disintermediated
    12. TransmissionNetworks
    13. Transmission Speed
    14. Enter: The Real-Time Web
    15. Twitter & Iran
      Amplified voices of dissent
      Facilitated misinformation (intentional and unintentional)
      Incomplete story
      Emotional
      Triggered MSM response
    16. Experiments In Live Tweets
      Oregonian (note date launched)
      Multi-organization collaboration – Washington Floods, 2009
      A Contrarian View of Twitter and Iran, June 2009
    17. Rise Of The SmartPhone
    18. April 2009 “Mobile Technographics®”
      Mobile Data Usage Cuts Across Age Groups
    19. June 2009 “Working iPhone Owners Tap The Mobile Internet”
      More Working iPhone Owners Use Social Media
    20. April 2009 “Mobile Technographics®”
      Mobile Technographics: Understanding The Connected Consumer
    21. 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
    22. License
      Creative Commons, share-and-share alike, attribution, non-commercial
      Kathy E. Gill@kegillkegill@uw.eduhttp://faculty.washington.edu/kegillhttp://wiredpen.com/
    23. 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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