Presentation about Global Voices

2. BLOGGING: More than teenage talk.

3. “Baghdad blogger” Salam Pax

5. “ I try to dispel the image that Muslims and Arabs suffer from - mostly by our own doing I have to say - in the rest of the world. I am no missionary and don’t want to be. I run several internet websites that are geared to do just that, create a better understanding that we’re not all nuts hell-bent on world destruction.” Text

8. 70+ million blogs tracked (probably under-counted) Non-English blogs growing fast! Source: Technorati “State of the Blogosphere” at: http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html

10. Blog of Chinese TV Anchor, Rui Chenggang

11. Blog by Sister of Jailed Chinese Filmmaker

12. Chinese-to-English “Bridge Blog” (photo courtesy BBC)

13. Teen fashion & music blogging today…

14. “Random acts of journalism” tomorrow.

15. The New Media Ecosystem Source: Morgan Stanley October 2004 report: “Update from the Digital World” by Mary Meeker et. al. Rebecca MacKinnon May 9, 2007 www.RConversation.com

16. Blog readership higher in Asia than UK and Europe Source: Edelman, “A Corporate Guide to the Global Blogosphere” At: http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/edelman/whitepaper010907/index.php

17. Role of blogs: Differs country by country Source: Edelman, “A Corporate Guide to the Global Blogosphere” At: http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/edelman/whitepaper010907/index.php

19. Portrait of Global Media Attention (Data from Google News, July 2006) Countries in red have more stories Countries in blue have fewer (Courtesy Ethan Zuckerman at: http://h2odev.law.harvard.edu/ezuckerman/ )

20. Rich Nation, Poor Nation… 127 million people 2nd largest world economy 12582 CNN.com stories 130 million people 54th largest world economy 937 CNN stories (Data courtesy Ethan Zuckerman http://ethanzuckerman.com /)

32. Thank you!! Rebecca MacKinnon Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Ctr., University of Hong Kong ( RConversation.com, jmsc.hku.hk ) Co-founder: GlobalVoicesOnline.org