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Journalism, Blogging and the Real-Time Web

Kathy E. Gill 19 October 2010. Journalism, Blogging and the Real-Time Web.

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Journalism, Blogging and the Real-Time Web

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  1. Kathy E. Gill 19 October 2010 Journalism, Blogging and the Real-Time Web

  2. Journalism is, in the words of James W. Carey,“our day book, our collective diary, which records our common life. That which goes unrecorded goes unpreserved except in the vanishing moment of our individual lives.”

  3. Media Consumption Timeline

  4. A Short Internet Timeline • 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

  5. Abbreviated Blogging Timeline • 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

  6. Real-Time Reporting • 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.

  7. 1970

  8. 1989

  9. 2009

  10. What Changed?

  11. Increasingly Disintermediated

  12. TransmissionNetworks

  13. Transmission Speed

  14. Enter: The Real-Time Web

  15. Twitter & Iran • Amplified voices of dissent • Facilitated misinformation (intentional and unintentional) • Incomplete story • Emotional • Triggered MSM response

  16. Experiments In Live Tweets • Oregonian (note date launched) • Multi-organization collaboration – Washington Floods, 2009 • A Contrarian View of Twitter and Iran, June 2009

  17. Rise Of The SmartPhone

  18. April 2009 “Mobile Technographics®” Mobile Data Usage Cuts Across Age Groups

  19. iPhone Users Are Different • March 2008: 85% iPhone users accessed news & info v 13.1% all mobile users and 58% all smart phone users

  20. June 2009 “Working iPhone Owners Tap The Mobile Internet” More Working iPhone Owners Use Social Media

  21. April 2009 “Mobile Technographics®” Mobile Technographics: Understanding The Connected Consumer

  22. Positioning Mobile • 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://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2007/02/mobile_the_7th_.html

  23. Summary • 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

  24. License • Creative Commons, share-and-share alike, attribution, non-commercial • Kathy E. Gill@kegillkegill@uw.eduhttp://faculty.washington.edu/kegillhttp://wiredpen.com/

  25. Credits • Kent State, photo John Paul Filo,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings • Tank Man, http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behind-the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/ • Death of NedaAgha-Solton, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan

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