New media: old wine in new bottles?
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New media allows for many-to-many communication rather than one-to-many broadcast media, transforming people from passive content consumers to active content producers. This has changed the way journalism is practiced, with information coming from citizen witnesses on the ground through social media platforms and smartphones. While this has democratized information and enabled reporting from closed countries, it also poses challenges like verifying accuracy and determining the veracity of stories amidst a torrent of information on digital platforms that are constantly evolving.
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New media: old wine in new bottles?
- 1. new media: old wine in new bottles? Sanjana Hattotuwa Editor, Groundviews (www.groundviews.org)
- 2. what is social media? • Social media uses Internet and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues (one to many) into social media dialogues (many to many). • It supports the democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers. (Wikipedia)
- 4. new media based journalism • Glocal information – what is local anymore? • Information agents are rapid moving, transnational and cellular • A person in Cape Town can report on activities in Colombo who sources his information from someone in Menik Farm who sends an SMS to a relative in Australia who posts it to the web • Models of news gathering and trust are changing
- 5. the revolution Journalist Consumer News as a package Consumer / Journalist Witness News as a conversation
- 6. what’s new • Ubiquity of two way communications • Addressable peoples, even those who IDPs or refugees • Journalism tied to ICTs • First stories come from citizens, who are the first witnesses to any event • Low resolution content broadcast on high definition media • Content from ordinary peoples juxtaposed with professional journalists
- 7. new media platforms and technologies • Blogs • Social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Myspace) • Google Maps • Mobiles: SMS, MMS, Mobile photography and video • VoIP: Skype • Underpinning the above is 3G HSPA wireless broadband and ADSL
- 8. no longer just the elite
- 9. the use of new media internationally
- 11. 10 questions: YouTube for accountability
- 12. crisis in darfur: using google earth
- 13. mainstream media: all use new media
- 14. bombings in london • 7 July 2005 • Within 24 hours, the BBC had received 1,000 stills and videos, 3,000 texts and 20,000 e-mails.
- 15. “saffron revolution” in myanmar, 2007 • 100,000 people joined a Facebook group supporting the monks • No international TV crews allowed in the country • Mobile phone cameras were the first footage of the monks protest • Blogs from Rangoon were the only sources of information • The junta shut down all Internet and mobile communications
- 16. burma vj: reporting from a closed country
- 17. the green revolution: post-election Iran, 2009
- 18. the green revolution: post-election Iran, 2009 • Social media played three very important roles in the Iran situation: 1.It helped Iranians communicate with each other. 2.It helped Iranians communicate with the outside world. 3.It helped the rest of the world communicate with both Iranians and others who sympathize with the protesters. • YouTube and Flickr brought multimedia out of the distressed country. Twitter and Facebook updates have spread videos virally. Blogs, Wikipedia, and citizen journalism have helped disseminate and filter this information. Most of all though, these tools have helped people take action.
- 19. haiti: earthquake, january 2009
- 20. haiti: earthquake, january 2009
- 21. The use of social media in Sri Lanka Presidential Campaign 2010
- 22. flickr for sarath fonseka
- 23. flickr for the president
- 24. facebook for the president
- 25. facebook for sarath fonseka
- 26. more compelling local examples
- 27. twitter: bearing witness to ground realities
- 30. groundviews.org: real time reporting http://www.groundviews.org/2009/02/21/air-raids-and-airports
- 31. groundviews.org: using twitter post-election http://www.groundviews.org/2010/02/01/updates-capturing-aftermath-of-presidential-elections
- 35. vikalpa.org: citizen journalism in Sinhala
- 38. case study: mumbai bomb blasts November 2008
- 39. Flickr: first images of the attacks http://www.flickr.com/photos/vinu/sets72157610144709049
- 40. Wikipedia: first narratives of the attacks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26_November_2008_Mumbai_attacks
- 41. Wikipedia: first narratives of the attacks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26_November_2008_Mumbai_attacks 400+ edits / updates 100+ authors Less than 24 hours after first attack
- 42. Getting updates: twittering the attacks http://spy.appspot.com
- 43. producing and reading content
- 44. gmail account: email, maps, news • Free, from www.gmail.com • Access to Google Maps (mapping) • Access to Google Reader (RSS / web updates) • Access to Google News (news updates)
- 45. gmail
- 46. google maps
- 47. google news
- 48. google reader: a web based RSS reader
- 51. Google: Updates from social media
- 52. ustream.tv: broadcasting via a PC
- 55. facebook: leveraging social networks
- 56. facebook: leveraging social networks
- 57. Wikipedia: leveraging it for journalism
- 58. bambuser.com: mobile phone broadcasting
- 59. drop.io: reports through audio
- 60. creating online content • Think beyond text. Online is not print. • Think beyond prose. Online can be satire. • Think of photos, audio, video. Rich media tells stories. • Think of SMS and crowd-sourcing • Don’t suggest you know everything. Use the community to add value to story • Link to other stories online
- 61. enduring challenges • Impartial, accurate coverage still vital, increasingly hard to ascertain • Torrent of information. Trickle of knowledge. • Veracity hard to determine • Pace of technology development hard to keep pace with • Need some basic understanding of English
- 65. Thank you