Have you ever heard the phrase, two heads are better than one? Briggs moved on in “Journalism Next” to crowdsourcing. What is crowdsourcing? “It is a relatively new term, coined by Jeff Howe in a 2006 article for Wired News. Think of crowdsourcing like outsourcing, the term it spun off from. Crowdsourcing harnesses the sustained […]
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Briggs Chapter 3
February 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Chapter 3 · Comm361, newspapers, Student Blog Posts
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Briggs Chapter 2
February 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Chapter 2 · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Advanced Blogging The rules are different with blogs. Blogging reporters play off other information they find online, even linking stories and blogs that might have been thought of as competition just a few years ago. Three characteristics define a blog: Frequently updated (recently updated stuff on top) Entries are called, “posts” and each have a […]
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Briggs Chapter 1
February 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Chapter 1 · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
We’re All Web Workers Now Photo credit: smileham/flickr …Says Mark Briggs. This thirty some page chapter dove straight in describing the basics of how the internet works and the technical contruction of web pages . Briggs had a graph like picture to help teach about Bits and Bytes. A comparable image I found was on a […]
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My Media Pyramid
February 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on My Media Pyramid · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
What is a media pyramid? Basically, it’s an illustration of where you get your news from. For me, it’s basically comprised of: Family Friends Significant Other Facebook/Twitter Comedy Central Time Magazine Fox News To each his or her own, I say. But whether you get your news from Twitter or The Washington Post, always make […]
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Hello world!
February 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Hello world! · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Welcome to onMason. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
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Briggs Ch. 3
February 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 3 · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
As anyone can have their own blog, it’s only fitting that news itself has become a much more collaborative process given all the new technology that bridges the gap between citizens and the media elite. Even sites as prominent as CNN now rely heavily on readers submitting news stories and videos. This global sharing process, […]
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Lecture by Claudia Holland on copyright and fair use
February 5th, 2011 · Comments Off on Lecture by Claudia Holland on copyright and fair use · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
George Mason University’s copyright officer, Claudia Holland visited with Klein’s Online Journalism class to talk about copyright and fair use on Thursday, February 3, 2011. The lecture was Power Point based and started out with explaining that copyrighted traits are expressions and originality; protected works are literary, architectural, sounds recordings, motion pictures, and other picture, […]
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Media Consumption
February 5th, 2011 · Comments Off on Media Consumption · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
One of our first homework assignments for Online Journalism was to read Eric Deggans’ article, What is Your Media Pyramid? Essentially your media pyramid should end up looking like the food group pyramid. The bottom level of mine started out with the huge giants of media like powerhouses aol.com, msn.com, huffingtonpost.com and washingtonpost.com as my […]
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Briggs Summaries
February 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Summaries · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Introduction Although print journalism is hardly the dominant force it once was, journalism is arguably thriving more strongly than ever. The Internet and cable networks have provided a goldmine of opportunity for budding journalists, but with it are new and ever-changing demands from audiences. A news site cannot simply get by on posting traditional news; […]
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Media Pyramid
February 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on Media Pyramid · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
Assignment No. 1
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