The document discusses how the internet and social media have empowered individuals and changed communication globally. It has led to a shift from a few similar media controlled by experts to a multitude of different media where everyone can communicate. Social media makes the world more unpredictable and has given more power to disseminate information and change attitudes to individuals rather than experts alone. However, it also raises issues around freedom versus control of information online.

1. Internet power – and empowerment
David Isaksson
Spider bord member, journalist, writer

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3. FROM A FEW SIMILAR MEDIA
TO A MULTITUDE OF DIFFERENT MEDIA
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4. FROM ANALOG INFORMATION
TO DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
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5. FROM DISSEMINATING INFORMATION TO
CHANGING ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR
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6. FROM "EXPERTS COMMUNICATE"
TO "EVERYONE
COMMUNICATES"
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7. SOCIAL MEDIA MAKES THE WORLD
MORE UNPREDICTABLE
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8. Muslim rage?
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10. “TWITTER IS MY CITY”
“Twitter is my city, my favorite city. I can talk to
anybody I want to. And anybody who wants
to talk to me will get my response. They know
me better than their relatives or my relatives.
There's so much imagination there; a lot of
times it's just like poetry. You just read one
sentence, and you sense this kind of breeze
or a kind of look. It's amazing.”
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11. (Ai Weiwei)
Picture: Wikipedia
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12. IMPORTANT TRENDS
• Freedom vs control
• Decline of traditional media
• End of investigative journalism?
• Crowdsourcing
• Open data
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14. Can power be translated into
empowering those without a voice?
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16. “Information Wants To Be Free.
Information also wants to be
expensive. ...That tension will not go
away.”
Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Catalogue
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18. Open Data…
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19. … could really become an important tool, both for
social media activist and for the civil society.
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24. LET’S COLLABORATE!
• Let everybody participate, let everybody
contribute.
• Crowd-thinking, crowd sourcing.
• Citizen journalism.
• Everyone can be a spindoctor!
• Go viral.
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26. David Isaksson
david@globalreporting.net
Twitter: davidglobal
www.spidercenter.org
www.globalreporting.net
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