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The Impact of New Media on Journalism and Democracy

The Impact of New Media on Journalism and Democracy. University of Michigan Communication Studies 439 Sections 3 and 4. Morley Safer: "I Would Trust Citizen Journalism As Much As I Would Trust Citizen Surgery". Some assumptions. Better informed citizens make for stronger democracies;

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The Impact of New Media on Journalism and Democracy

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  1. The Impact of New Media on Journalism and Democracy University of Michigan Communication Studies 439 Sections 3 and 4

  2. Morley Safer: "I Would Trust Citizen Journalism As Much As I Would Trust Citizen Surgery"

  3. Some assumptions • Better informed citizens make for stronger democracies; • Strong journalism helps people better understand the world in which they live; • Digital media is here to stay. • Newspapers are/were often great, but never perfect. • People of all ages want to understand what is going on in the world.

  4. Course objectives • Examine the strengths and weaknesses of new media compared to old; • Seek ways in which new media can successfully keep the public informed of critical issues; • Better understand how citizens are using digital/new media; • Prototype our own news sites as a means of exploring how digital media may provide a place for strong journalism.

  5. Why am I here?

  6. Why are you here? Exhibition of Jean-Michel Folon.Forte Belvedere, Firenze.  From Flickr, Marco Bellucci Minute paper: what interests you about this course? Share with group.

  7. Class Worksheet • Where do you get your news? • What are the strengths and weaknesses of: • Newspapers • Radio • Television • Websites/online news sites?

  8. Design Thinking

  9. Syllabus Review All information for this course can be accessed through Sitemaker: WWW.SITEMAKER.UMICH.EDU/DIGITALDEMOCRACY

  10. Lions vs HyenasOld Media/New Media and the changing media landscape

  11. Bruce Bimber, Information and American Democracy Believed the Founding Fathers created the world’s first “information-based society.” Information: Knowledge communicated concerning some particular fact, subject, or event. (OED)

  12. So What is Journalism? • American Heritage Dictionary: • The collecting, writing, editing, and presenting of news or news articles in newspapers and magazines and in radio and television broadcasts. • Material written for publication in a newspaper or magazine or for broadcast. • The style of writing characteristic of material in newspapers and magazines, consisting of direct presentation of facts or occurrences with little attempt at analysis or interpretation. • Newspapers and magazines. • An academic course training students in journalism. • Written material of current interest or wide popular appeal.

  13. So What is Journalism? • My working definition: Helping people make sense of the world/the communities in which we all live. • Your definition?

  14. “Vague But Exciting” 1989: Tim Berners-Lee invents the hyper text transfer protocol--World Wide Web What does this mean for the spread of information? For how people interact? Berners-Lee: The Web as a non-proprietary platform.

  15. What Happened to Carriage Makers?

  16. Top Websites • 1 Google.com • 2Yahoo.com • 3Youtube.com • 4Live.com • 5Facebook.com • 6Msn.com • 7 Wikipedia.org • 8Blogger.com • 9Myspace.com • 10Yahoo.co.jp

  17. Trending

  18. Trending 2

  19. Who is in charge here? • Dan Gillmor calls the “unraveling” of the “priesthood” of journalists a good thing. • Do you agree?

  20. Questions to consider • How much does structure matter? Org charts? • Is the power shifting? • Is that a good thing? • What is lost for the citizen as we shift to new media? • When the audience gains power, is it better off? More or less informed?

  21. Get a Cluetrain • The Cluetrain Manifesto • The Internet is enabling conversations among human beings that were simply not possible in the era of mass media (#6). • The community of discourse is the market (#39). • Org charts worked in an older economy where plans could be fully understood from atop steep management pyramids and detailed work orders could be handed down from on high (#49). • & Today, the org chart is hyperlinked, not hierarchical. Respect for hands-on knowledge wins over respect for abstract authority (#50). • We are waking up and linking to each other. We are watching. But we are not waiting (#95).

  22. Dan Gillmor’s hope “Instead of a news anarchy or lockdown, I seek a balance that preserves the best of today’s system and simultaneously encourages tomorrow’s emergent, self-assembling journalism.” Possible? Are we on our way?

  23. What is John Kerry Afraid Of? Senate Commerce Subcommittee hearing on “The Future of Journalism,” May 6, 2009

  24. Ad Revenue Source: Ryan Chittum, Columbia Journalism Review

  25. Rapid Decline in Circulation Source: Project for Excellence in Journalism/Poynter Institute

  26. Readership by Age Group Source: Scarborough Research

  27. Bob Greene Reminisces Bob Greene speaks with NPR’s Scott Simon about his memoir, Late Edition: A Love Story

  28. AP Managing Editors, Principles of Newspapers • RESPONSIBILITY • The good newspaper is fair, accurate, honest, responsible, independent and decent. Truth is its guiding principle.

  29. AP Managing Editors, Principles of Newspapers • ACCURACY • The newspaper should guard against inaccuracies, carelessness, bias or distortion through emphasis, omission or technological manipulation. • It should acknowledge substantive errors and correct them promptly and prominently.

  30. AP Managing Editors, Principles of Newspapers • INTEGRITY • The newspaper should strive for impartial treatment of issues and dispassionate handling of controversial subjects. It should provide a forum for the exchange of comment and criticism, especially when such comment is opposed to its editorial positions. Editorials and expressions of personal opinion by reporters and editors should be clearly labeled. Advertising should be differentiated from news. • The newspaper should report the news without regard for its own interests. • It should report matters regarding itself or its personnel with the same vigor and candor as it would other institutions or individuals. • The newspaper should deal honestly with readers and newsmakers. It should keep its promises. • The newspaper should not plagiarize words or images.

  31. AP Managing Editors, Principles of Newspapers • INDEPENDENCE • The newspaper and its staff should be free of obligations to news sources and newsmakers. • Newspapers should accept nothing of value from news sources or others outside the profession. • Journalists are encouraged to be involved in their communities, to the extent that such activities do not create conflicts of interest. • Involvement in politics, demonstrations and social causes that would cause a conflict of interest, or the appearance of such conflict, should be avoided. • Work by staff members for the people or institutions they cover also should be avoided.

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