The document analyzes different news articles covering the Boston Marathon bombings and notes their approaches. The Times article focuses only on facts without commentary. The Guardian live blog constantly updates with new information every few minutes and uses an emotional, sentimental tone in eyewitness quotes. Boston.com promotes donations and features posts about young victims with a realistic, sentimental tone.
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Part of our PowerPoint reform efforts, this slide show was developed as a counterpoint to Peter Norvig's slideshow on Gettysburg http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
Kinnernet USA 09 is an an un-conference organized by Yossi Vardi and Jeff Pulver. It Took place at the Bolger center, Potomac MD on 5/8/09-5/10/09
I presented this at the opening event to give the newbies some background on what the camp is about.
You can read more reflections of mine from this great conference here: http://www.meydad.com/2009/05/12/reflections-from-kinnernet-usa-2009/
Twitter, with other online media and communities, reveals the voices of real people, their thoughts and reactions to this event, telling the story in their own words.
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This presentation for presenters of the 2009 K-12 Online Conference addresses presentation guidelines, file submission procedures, conference live events, and more. Presenters should join our 2009 Presenters group in the K-12 Online Conference Ning to ask questions and engage in discussion with conference organizers.
http://k12online.ning.com/group/2009presenters
Kinnernet USA 09 is an an un-conference organized by Yossi Vardi and Jeff Pulver. It Took place at the Bolger center, Potomac MD on 5/8/09-5/10/09
I presented this at the opening event to give the newbies some background on what the camp is about.
You can read more reflections of mine from this great conference here: http://www.meydad.com/2009/05/12/reflections-from-kinnernet-usa-2009/
Twitter, with other online media and communities, reveals the voices of real people, their thoughts and reactions to this event, telling the story in their own words.
ThinkLead provides a range of Technology Consulting solutions to SME , Mid size and Large Enterprise customers across verticals . Specialised services include Cloud Computing Services , Infrastructure Management and Resource Planning
This presentation for presenters of the 2009 K-12 Online Conference addresses presentation guidelines, file submission procedures, conference live events, and more. Presenters should join our 2009 Presenters group in the K-12 Online Conference Ning to ask questions and engage in discussion with conference organizers.
http://k12online.ning.com/group/2009presenters
3. • Objective perspective
• Just mentions the facts
• No commenting
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article3740857.ece
4. 1. Sentimental tone
“Martin’s mother, Denise, and
six-year-old sister, Jane, are in
hospital with “grievous injuries”.”
2. Pictures of the boy and his family
3. Description in detail of the exact
way it happened
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article3740425.ece
5. 1. Intense mentioning
2. Representational tone
3. Sentimental way of
presenting – moving title
“We’ve had an attack,” says another dazed,
horrified voice on another piece of video
footage. ”Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.”
6. • Main article on the
front page
• Video of the exlosion
• Functions as a gate
for the live blog
8. • Constant enrichment of one article
• Addition of new information (every 2 minutes approximately)
• Extremely sentimental tone
“I yelled, that's my wife, can I please go with her? And I got in the ambulance. She was
cool as a cucumber. In my mind I'm trying to be calm for her but I'm freaking out.”
Testimony of Nicholas Yanni, a patient and eyewitness
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2013/apr/16/boston-marathon-
explosions-hunt-begins-for-perperators-live-updates
9. Posts about young victims – in a very realistic way –
sentimental tone