Short lecture slides for EMC3070 about social media and journalism

1. JOURNALI
SOCIAL MEDIA AND

2. SOCIAL MEDIA AND JOURNALISM
WHAT’S TO COME?
▸ The Future of Journalism
▸ Journalism today
▸ Citizen Journalism
▸ Crowdsourcing
▸ Tweeting/Blogging
▸ Trusted Gatekeepers and
Internet Celebrity
▸ Failures and Lessons

3. SOCIAL MEDIA AND JOURNALISM
JOURNALISM
TODAY
▸ Journalism is a distinct type of content. Craft
and Davis (2013, p. 11) identified five
democratic needs:
▸ Journalism informs, analyzes, interprets
and explains.
▸ Journalism investigates.
▸ Journalism creates public conversation.
▸ Journalism helps generate social
empathy.
▸ Journalism encourages accountability.

4. Participatory
Distributed
Breaking

6. “THE NEWS TOLD US WHAT WAS
HAPPENING. BUT IT DIDN’T TELL US
WHAT TO THINK.”
Tom Rosenstiel
SOCIAL MEDIA AND JOURNALISM
Discuss:

7. “NEW TECHNOLOGY HAS
FUNDAMENTALLY DISSOLVED THE
OLD SYSTEM FOR FINANCING
NEWS.”
Tom Rosenstiel
SOCIAL MEDIA AND JOURNALISM
Discuss:

8. “WITHIN THE INDUSTRY, THE MOST
SIGNIFICANT CHANGE HAS BEEN
THAT IT’S NOT ENOUGH TO SIMPLY
FILE YOUR STORY AND GO HOME
ANYMORE. WE MUST BE PROACTIVE
AND BUILD NETWORKS. SOME
BEMOAN THAT AND ARE RELUCTANT
TO EMBRACE THE CHANGE.
PERSONALLY, I THINK THE SHIFT
HAS BEEN EXCITING. IT’S ALWAYS
BETTER TO BE ABLE TO STEER
YOUR OWN SHIP, SO TO SPEAK.”
Amy Guth
SOCIAL MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

9. SOCIAL MEDIA AND JOURNALISM
HOW DO YOU GET YOUR NEWS?
▸Write a blog post outlining how you get news daily.
▸What are your sources?
▸When do you pull it? How often?
▸On which devices do you read/listen/watch news?