According to a research poll in the Daily Telegraph, children living in the United Kingdom receive their first cell phone at the age of eight. Similarly, two-thirds of all Americans own a cell phone. Shocking? Amusing? Boring? Well, either way, we can all agree that mobile journalism is changing the news world. It brings the […]
Entries from February 18th, 2011
Chapter 5: Mobile journalism
February 18th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 5: Mobile journalism · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
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Quora: What is it?
February 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on Quora: What is it? · Comm361, social media, Student Blog Posts
In a world of twitter, twellow, bebo, cloob and fotki, there possibly couldn’t be any use for Quora. Turns out I am wrong. Quora.com, a website founded by two former Facebook moguls, has been buzzing in the world of media gurus lately due to its community-driven Q & A repository. Deemed a “social network for […]
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Twitter raises awareness for the homeless
February 16th, 2011 · Comments Off on Twitter raises awareness for the homeless · Comm361, social media, Student Blog Posts
I never thought of myself as much of a blog or Twitter person. Yes, I have a personal blog where I vent and write about issues that are important to me. And yes, I have a Twitter account where I would tweet maybe once every two months. However, when I started this class, doing these […]
Ch. 4 ‘Microblogging: write small, think big’
February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Ch. 4 ‘Microblogging: write small, think big’ · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Microblogging. Most of us know what it is, we just don’t know it. Microblogging “allows users to publish brief text messages, usually no more than 140 characters, with links to other Web sites, photos or videos. Messages can be submitted in a variety of ways, including text messaging, instant messaging, e-mail, digital audio or simply […]
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Ch.3 ‘Crowd-powered collaboration’
February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Ch.3 ‘Crowd-powered collaboration’ · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
“The hunter-gatherer model of journalism is no long sufficient. Citizens can do their own hunting and gathering on the Internet. What they need is somebody to add value to that information by processing it–digesting it, organizing it, making it usable.” — Phil Meyer, author of “Precision Journalism” Briggs starts out the third chapter of “Journalism […]
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Chapter four: Microblogging
February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter four: Microblogging · briggs, Comm361, social media, Student Blog Posts
Twitter. It’s the one thing that comes to mind when you hear the word microblogging. In what way can we possibly cover news in less than 140 characters? What is microblogging? It’s the idea that lets individuals write and share small content of news online via short sentences, images or video links. It is an […]
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‘Journalism Next’ by Mark Briggs: Chapter 4 summary
February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on ‘Journalism Next’ by Mark Briggs: Chapter 4 summary · Comm361, Facebook, Student Blog Posts
Summary: Microblogging — The instant messaging journal Microblogging Start a Twitter, Facebook and/or LinkedIn account. Importance: Trains users to look for interesting things around them Gets breaking news out in an instant Allows the audience and journalists access to the most up-to-date news coverage Why microblogging should remain personal, not automatic Quality over quantity; tweets […]
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‘Journalism Next’ by Mark Briggs: Chapter 3 summary
February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on ‘Journalism Next’ by Mark Briggs: Chapter 3 summary · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Summary: Crowdsourcing, open-source and pro-am journalism becoming the focus of news operations in the United States. Crowdsourcing: A larger group of committed individuals can outperform a small group of experienced professionals. Example: Encyclopedia Britannica cannot keep up with Wikipedia in terms of updated articles. Not a science; still experimental Used for the gathering of information […]
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Social media producer for TBD.com; Mandy Jenkins
February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Social media producer for TBD.com; Mandy Jenkins · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Social media producer for TBD.com; Mandy Jenkins… Coming soon..
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Briggs Ch. 4
February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 4 · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
In this Briggs chapter about microblogging, the first site that came to mind was Discographies, a clever Twitter feed that reviews a musician’s body of work in 140 characters. It’s a concept so simple, so appealing and frankly, so maddening that years of hard work and transformation can be boiled down to a few sentences. […]
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