2. Journalism is, in the words of James W. Carey,âour day book, our collective diary, which records our common life. That which goes unrecorded goes unpreserved except in the vanishing moment of our individual lives.â
4. A Short Internet Timeline November 1990: one web host (CERN) 1994: the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives added web servers 1994: the San Jose Mercury News launched the first online newspaper 1998: ~300 million web pages 2000: Google had indexed 1B web pages July 2008: Google had indexed 1T web pages
5. Abbreviated Blogging Timeline 1999: Yahoo! buys GeoCities, host to 3.5 million individual Web sites (most abandoned!) 1999: the Poynter Institute starts the âMediaNewsâ blog 2002: Google buys Blogger; estimate of 500,000 blogs worldwide in total February 2002: Salon and Fox News add blogs 2003: Iraq war gives rise to war blogger 2009: 6 million blogs on Wordpress.com; >1B monthly pageviews; Yahoo! shutters GeoCities
6. Real-Time Reporting The Charlotte Observer used a blog format to report on Hurricane Bonnie in August 1998; âDispatches from the Coastâ is the first known use of blog to cover a breaking news story.
15. Twitter & Iran Amplified voices of dissent Facilitated misinformation (intentional and unintentional) Incomplete story Emotional Triggered MSM response
16. Experiments In Live Tweets Oregonian (note date launched) Multi-organization collaboration â Washington Floods, 2009 A Contrarian View of Twitter and Iran, June 2009
18. April 2009 âMobile TechnographicsÂźâ Mobile Data Usage Cuts Across Age Groups
19. iPhone Users Are Different March 2008: 85% iPhone users accessed news & info v 13.1% all mobile users and 58% all smart phone users
20. June 2009 âWorking iPhone Owners Tap The Mobile Internetâ More Working iPhone Owners Use Social Media
21. April 2009 âMobile TechnographicsÂźâ Mobile Technographics: Understanding The Connected Consumer
22. Positioning Mobile First personal mass medium First always-on mass medium First always-carried mass medium First mass medium where individuals can be identified First mass medium to facilitate the âcreative impulseâ Source: Mobile Design and Development (p39) and http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2007/02/mobile_the_7th_.html
23. Summary Blogging is part of the webâs evolutionary path The real time web (Twitter et al) is the next mediamorphosis Impact on civic life will depend on media literacy efforts
25. Credits Kent State, photo John Paul Filo,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings Tank Man, http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behind-the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/ Death of NedaAgha-Solton, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan