This document discusses the evolving role of traditional media in the age of social media. It notes that while some claim traditional media is dying, it is actually changing and adapting to new technologies. Traditional media still plays an important role in spreading content created by individuals on social media to wider audiences. However, journalists must be careful about fact checking and verifying information spread on social media before reporting on it to avoid spreading misinformation. The role of journalists is now to act as gatekeepers and verify information from social media before it reaches larger audiences.
Slides for "Fake News: Why It Matters and How to Fight It" an event hosted by Eugene Public Library, May 23 2017.
"UO Journalism professors Damian Radcliffe and Peter Laufer
explore the current debate about fake news. These information experts will offer historical insights, contemporary analysis, and practical tools to empower the public in telling fact from fiction." https://www.eugene-or.gov/Calendar.aspx?EID=12837
Slides from a meeting with Strat Comms professionals hosted by the University of Oregon in April 2017. Looks at how we got here, current challenges, and opportunities for the reaffirmation of journalism in the age of Trump.
Slides for "Fake News: Why It Matters and How to Fight It" an event hosted by Eugene Public Library, May 23 2017.
"UO Journalism professors Damian Radcliffe and Peter Laufer
explore the current debate about fake news. These information experts will offer historical insights, contemporary analysis, and practical tools to empower the public in telling fact from fiction." https://www.eugene-or.gov/Calendar.aspx?EID=12837
Slides from a meeting with Strat Comms professionals hosted by the University of Oregon in April 2017. Looks at how we got here, current challenges, and opportunities for the reaffirmation of journalism in the age of Trump.
Talk on fake news as digital culture given at the Institute for Policy Research symposium on Politics, Fake News and the Post-Truth Era, University of Bath, 14 September 2017.
More about the talk here: http://lilianabounegru.org/2017/09/23/fake-news-in-digital-culture-at-2017-institute-for-policy-research-symposium/
More about the event here: http://www.bath.ac.uk/events/politics-fake-news-and-the-post-truth-era/
What does it mean to live in a post-truth world? Is a post-truth world functional? This slide set discusses the centrality of truth to our institutions and its crucial significance for education
This presentation was prepared for Digital Journalism Days 2015 #djd15 which took place in Warsaw on May 21st 2015.
It aims to give a short overview of important podcasts which discuss media, journalism and blogging.
Let's Make The New York Times Great Again
Jyonah Jericho
The tragic trajectory of The New York Times inches full throttle towards the fate of the Pravda when the communist Soviet Union fell in 1991. Cracks in the iron curtain splashed a disinfecting dose of sunlight on mother Russia. The propaganda agenda of the Pravda entered the mainstream consciousness of this nation’s populace. The partial collapse of this bogus broadsheet’s readership ensued.
In recent years, the adjective ‘fake news’ has entered the English language lexicon. It is difficult to pin-point precisely when the global mass media transformed from its heyday function as a disseminator of current affairs and facts into a totalitarian machine staffed by partisan ‘presstitute’ puppets.
There is safety in numbers. The Times spearheads a brutal brigade of hound dog
harlots. Corruption of mainstream Western media is endemic. This wickedness pervades the oligopoly
mockingbird media throughout America’s television, radio, print and digital outlets.
Key Words : The New York Times , New York Times
Temple Law School/ICAS Joint Lecture:
#vivalarevolucíon: New Millennium Political Protests
Slides for John Russell
Speakers:
David H. Slater, Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Japanese Studies and Director of the Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University
John Russell, Professor of Anthropology, Gifu University
William Andrews, writer and translator.
Sarajean Rossitto, Nonprofit NGO Consultant
Moderator:
Tina Saunders, Director and Associate Professor of Instruction in Law, Temple University School of Law, Japan Campus
ICAS public lecture series videos are posted on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAA67B040B82B8AEF
Analysis of sources and effect of fake news on society Arpit Khurana
This report reviews the relevant literature to provide a definition of fake news, its potential impact and recent responses to this phenomenon. Finally, the report provides a summary of the research and important findings concerning fake news in the conclusion.
Talk on fake news as digital culture given at the Institute for Policy Research symposium on Politics, Fake News and the Post-Truth Era, University of Bath, 14 September 2017.
More about the talk here: http://lilianabounegru.org/2017/09/23/fake-news-in-digital-culture-at-2017-institute-for-policy-research-symposium/
More about the event here: http://www.bath.ac.uk/events/politics-fake-news-and-the-post-truth-era/
What does it mean to live in a post-truth world? Is a post-truth world functional? This slide set discusses the centrality of truth to our institutions and its crucial significance for education
This presentation was prepared for Digital Journalism Days 2015 #djd15 which took place in Warsaw on May 21st 2015.
It aims to give a short overview of important podcasts which discuss media, journalism and blogging.
Let's Make The New York Times Great Again
Jyonah Jericho
The tragic trajectory of The New York Times inches full throttle towards the fate of the Pravda when the communist Soviet Union fell in 1991. Cracks in the iron curtain splashed a disinfecting dose of sunlight on mother Russia. The propaganda agenda of the Pravda entered the mainstream consciousness of this nation’s populace. The partial collapse of this bogus broadsheet’s readership ensued.
In recent years, the adjective ‘fake news’ has entered the English language lexicon. It is difficult to pin-point precisely when the global mass media transformed from its heyday function as a disseminator of current affairs and facts into a totalitarian machine staffed by partisan ‘presstitute’ puppets.
There is safety in numbers. The Times spearheads a brutal brigade of hound dog
harlots. Corruption of mainstream Western media is endemic. This wickedness pervades the oligopoly
mockingbird media throughout America’s television, radio, print and digital outlets.
Key Words : The New York Times , New York Times
Temple Law School/ICAS Joint Lecture:
#vivalarevolucíon: New Millennium Political Protests
Slides for John Russell
Speakers:
David H. Slater, Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Japanese Studies and Director of the Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University
John Russell, Professor of Anthropology, Gifu University
William Andrews, writer and translator.
Sarajean Rossitto, Nonprofit NGO Consultant
Moderator:
Tina Saunders, Director and Associate Professor of Instruction in Law, Temple University School of Law, Japan Campus
ICAS public lecture series videos are posted on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAA67B040B82B8AEF
Analysis of sources and effect of fake news on society Arpit Khurana
This report reviews the relevant literature to provide a definition of fake news, its potential impact and recent responses to this phenomenon. Finally, the report provides a summary of the research and important findings concerning fake news in the conclusion.
As an instructional assistant at the S.I. Newhouse school of Public Communications, I oversaw a number of team teaching and research presentations. This is an example of one of those.
2. Slide Credit: Yahoo
Evolving Media
1960 2006
Mass Media, Matures Mass Media, Evolves
TV channels Magazine titles: TV channels 5.4 Billion pages Magazine
per home: 5.7 8,400 per home: indexed by Yahoo!: titles:
82.4 17,300
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Radio broadcast Radio
stations: stations: Stations:
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12. "Big media has always been the way
things blow up from the grassroots into
the culture,”
- BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith
13. "But we don't get to decide what goes viral.”
- Ben Smith
14. "Are we reporting in an echo chamber? To a
certain extent that is what we are doing –
but that doesn't mean it is without value.
That's not so different from traditional
journalism – „finding interesting information
and publishing about it.‟ ”
- Len De Groot, a lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at the
University of California-Berkeley.
16. How fast does a tweet travel?
Tripathi's claim about the New York Stock Exchange was shared nearly
650 times, during the height of the storm, largely because journalists
and others with powerful credibility carried it across their Twitter
accounts.
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19. “The reach of Tripathi's single tweet on the
NYSE was so powerful that the National
Weather Service repeated it, which then
allowed it to make its way to the Weather
Channel and CNN. Within an hour, the
national press was reporting this completely
made-up statement as fact.”
- Heidi Moore, The Guardian
21. “The truth is, Tripathi had a relatively small
niche on Twitter. His influence would have
been limited had not journalists on Twitter
been desperate for information to share,
regardless of provenance.”
- Heidi Moore, The Guardian
22. “The decision to publish Tripathi's
information was made by journalists, even
when his persona and the nature of the
information called for skepticism.”
-Heidi Moore, The Guardian
23. The Responsibility of the Press in Social
Tripathi, as an internet troll, was completely in character,
and he had no responsibility to the public. But journalists do
have that responsibility – and so, if Tripathi's silly tweets
made it into the national press, it is the national press that
is, at heart, to blame for not protecting journalistic
standards as well as they should. It is a matter of a few
minutes to call a spokesperson or check a live camera, and
that is what journalists get paid to do. Producers or editors
should not rush information to air or print until those calls
have been made, and answered.
-Heidi Moore, The Guardian
24. The New Role of Journalists in Social
“When Twitter pronouncements make it to TV,
the web or papers, it is journalists who are the
gatekeepers who allow that. Even in the internet
age, when information is easier to obtain,
individual judgment counts: judgment on who to
trust, the character of sources, knowing their
agendas and history.”
-Heidi Moore, The Guardian
26. 1. Job creation: social media reporters.
2. Job need: ombudsman.
3. Power to break a story like never before.
4. Power to push a story further.
5. Filing limitations have been decimated.
6. A byline has never been so powerful.