Transcript Journalism and Blogging

Kathy E. Gill
19 October 2010
Radio
Newspaper
Computer
TV
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November 1990: one web host (CERN)
1994: the U.S. Senate and House of
Representatives added web servers
1994: the San Jose Mercury News launched
the first online newspaper
1998: ~300 million web pages
2000: Google had indexed 1B web pages
July 2008: Google had indexed 1T web pages
1999: Yahoo! buys GeoCities, host to 3.5 million
individual Web sites (most abandoned!)
 1999: the Poynter Institute starts the
“MediaNews” blog
 2002: Google buys Blogger; estimate of 500,000
blogs worldwide in total
 February 2002: Salon and Fox News add blogs
 2003: Iraq war gives rise to war blogger
 2009: 6 million blogs on Wordpress.com; >1B
monthly pageviews; Yahoo! shutters GeoCities
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The Charlotte Observer used a blog format to
report on Hurricane Bonnie in August 1998;
“Dispatches from the Coast” is the first
known use of blog to cover a breaking news
story.
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Amplified voices of dissent
Facilitated misinformation (intentional and
unintentional)
Incomplete story
Emotional
Triggered MSM response
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Oregonian (note date launched)
Multi-organization collaboration –
Washington Floods, 2009
A Contrarian View of Twitter and Iran, June
2009
April 2009 “Mobile Technographics®”
Mobile Data Usage Cuts Across Age Groups
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March 2008: 85% iPhone users accessed
news & info v 13.1% all mobile users and
58% all smart phone users
June 2009 “Working iPhone Owners Tap The Mobile Internet”
More Working iPhone Owners Use Social Media
April 2009 “Mobile Technographics®”
Mobile Technographics: Understanding The Connected Consumer
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First personal mass medium
First always-on mass medium
First always-carried mass medium
First mass medium where individuals can
be identified
First mass medium to facilitate the
“creative impulse”
Source: Mobile Design and Development (p39) and http://communitiesdominate.blogs.com/brands/2007/02/mobile_the_7th_.html
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Blogging is part of the web’s evolutionary
path
The real time web (Twitter et al) is the next
mediamorphosis
Impact on civic life will depend on media
literacy efforts
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Creative Commons, share-and-share alike,
attribution, non-commercial
Kathy E. Gill
@kegill
[email protected]
http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill
http://wiredpen.com/
Kent State, photo John Paul Filo,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootin
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2. Tank Man,
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behin
d-the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/
3. Death of Neda Agha-Solton,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Ag
ha-Soltan
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