Mark Trahant course on Twitter & Democracy.

1. Twitter Democracy
A changing news media in 140 characters

2. Where do you fly?
• Introductions -- beyond 140 characters.
• Experienced Twitters?
• If not, jump into today.
• Followers are found by following others.
After class, build a network. Follow and be
followed. Check profiles, who’s following
that person? Click on their followers.

3. Who he?
• A non-traditional, traditional journalist.
• My career path:
• Sho-Ban News (Buffalo Lodge)
• Government (tempted again)
• Navajo Times & Navajo Times Today

4. • Arizona Republic, Salt Lake Tribune,
Moscow Pullman-Daily News, Seattle
Times
• Seattle P-I and some new media
experiments
• Virtual Editorial Boards
• Podcasting
• Newsrimes

5. The hook:

6. Social media wildfire
• People called up: “Did you see what Bush
said?”
• Yes, actually. I asked the question.
• YouTube, Colbert, Daily Show and even now
it remains a Google favorite

7. Twitter clips
• http://twitter.com/NewsRimes4lines

8. Tell me a story.
• Four powerful words that begin soon after
birth.
• Role of journalists as storytelling
• How does “disruptive” technology change
that?

9. The crisis in news.

10. Disruption of news
• Seattle P-I, Rocky Mountain News
• Detroit Newspapers
• NY Times

11. Era of Wikinomics

12. • 1st Web: Essentially publishing
• Web 2.0, collaboration. Technology shift from
html to xml.
• Demographics role.
• Gold Corp challenge.

13. Twitter (and other
social media)
Mass collaboration as
news generators,
receivers

14. Tweet do list.
• Follow me: @twitprof for class assignments,
ideas, posts, attendance and a few
experiments.
• Post as often as you want, but for class write
at least two posts a day. One should be a
comment on a news thread.
• Make sure you have a bio of some kind on
your page.

15. Assignments:
Newscheck (every day)
Twitter Revolution
Part 1 and 2
www.marktrahant.com

16. 2. Getting past ‘zap’
We’ll explore the disruption of storytelling by
technology in a historical context

17. • Petroglyphs to Internet

18. Do you wear a watch?
• Social media and a changing culture.
• How technology changes storytelling.