Preparation
Read:
Melissa Wall, (2005). Blogs of war: weblogs as news. Journalism 6 (2), 153-72. (Electronic databases)
Gordon, J. (2007). The mobile phone and the public sphere: mobile phone usage in three critical situations. Convergence 13(3), 307-319. (electronic databases)
Watch:
TED talk – Jimmy Wales on the creation of Wikipedia
Learning Portfolio entry:
1. Summarise the main points in the readings noting your agreement and disagreement with the ideas and opinions of the author/speaker.
2. Make note of the blogs you visit and the features of this blogs that attract you
Discussion
Topic Themes / keywords:
participatory culture, ethics, credibility
learning goals:
Thinking about how notions of credibility, editorship, control and open source operate in the new media scape.
Group work:
Discussion Questions:
Assignment Preparation
NB. Ass 1B Final Portfolio and reflection due this Friday
Read:
Melissa Wall, (2005). Blogs of war: weblogs as news. Journalism 6 (2), 153-72. (Electronic databases)
Wall analyses the cultural conditions that gave rise to blogging, situates it with regard to “ old media” and then analyses the ways in which blogs reconfigure journalistic discourse, specifically in relation to blog coverage of the Iraq war.
Gordon, J. (2007). The mobile phone and the public sphere: mobile phone usage in three critical situations. Convergence 13(3), 307-319. (electronic databases)
Watch:
TED talk – Jimmy Wales on the creation of Wikipedia
Learning Portfolio entry:
1. Summarise the main points in the readings noting your agreement and disagreement with the ideas and opinions of the author/speaker.
2. Make note of the blogs you visit and the features of this blogs that attract you
Discussion
Topic Themes / keywords:
participatory culture, ethics, credibility
learning goals:
Thinking about how notions of credibility, editorship, control and open source operate in the new media scape.
Group work:
- Share examples of your favoured sites for news / information.
- Discuss how credible you find it – do you cross check with other sources? Why?
- Look at de-identified articles on same topic from different sources and decide which are professionally edited, which are more credible etc
Discussion Questions:
- What do new forms of information / journalism such as Indymedia, citizen journalism / blogging mean for traditional news media?
- Is this the death of the editor?
- If so how important is this for the credibility of the new/ information we source?
- What do we mean by collective intelligence?
- What are the risks to the blogger?
Assignment Preparation
- review your use of the use of the library and databases - start collecting additional sources for ass 3
- Writing / assignment exercise - Assessment of ‘mock’ essay
NB. Ass 1B Final Portfolio and reflection due this Friday
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