Presentation at MEDIANE conference on Media in Europe for Diversity Inclusiveness in Florence, October 2013 - see part 1 here: http://www.slideshare.net/onlinejournalist/diversity-mediane
15. 2005: “African Americans are
producing more content
proportionally than white groups”
2005: Wojdynski and Smith: The participatory Web: Demographic predictors of online content creation at the Convergence and Society:The
Participatory Web conference at the University of South Carolina, http://pjnet.org/post/1897/
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16. 2009: “Internet users are as likely as
anyone else to visit with their
neighbors in person. Cell phone users,
those who use the internet frequently at
work, and bloggers are more likely to
belong to a local voluntary association”
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/18--Social-Isolation-and-New-Technology.aspx?r=1
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17. 2011: “Minority Internet users are more
than twice as likely as white Internet
users to utilize Twitter, and young
Internet users are also significantly more
likely than older Americans to adopt the
still relatively-new social network. For
many [it is used] for keeping up with
news and giving them a voice on
national or local issues they may not
have previously perceived they
possessed.”
Carrie Brown & Elizabeth Hendrickson, University of Memphis * University of Tennessee 2011, https://online.journalism.utexas.edu/2011/
papers/Brown2011.pdf
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18. “Broadband take-up among most
EMGs is higher than in the GB
population as a whole. The Indian
group has the highest levels of
broadband penetration, at 82%,
compared to 71% of the GB population.”
- Ofcom
“The internet is accessed less relative to
the rest of the population.”
- BFI
Ofcom Market Report 2013 http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/cmr/cmr13/2013_UK_CMR.pdf
BFI 2013 http://www.academia.edu/1482465/Media_Culture_The_social_organisation_of_media_practices_in_contemporary_Britain
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19. “Britain’s ethnic minorities are more likely
to be early adopters of, and spend
proportionally more on, new technology.”
IPA, 2013 http://www.ipa.co.uk/news/ipa-publishes-report-on-britains-ethnic-minorities#.UmffUpTk4Rw
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20. “Some of those most alienated from
mainstream news offerings, such as
young Asians, are also exceptionally
enthusiastic users of the internet. Among
young Asians, 8% regard the internet as
their main source of news.” (Ofcom,
2002)
Ofcom, http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/bsc/pdfs/research/news.pdf
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24. What are people likely to say?
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To find someone’s phone number?
To find people who are twins?
To find someone with diabetes?
To find someone out of work?
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25. What are people likely to say?
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“My new mobile number is”
“My twin sister”
“My insulin levels/injection”
“My JSA”
“Another job interview”
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26. Where? (Offline/Online)
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Limit results to one site using site:
Limit to types of pages using inurl:
Limit to exact phrases using quotes
Exclude words/places using minus sign
Limit document types using filetype:
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41. Nodocentrism
"A network is quite incapable of
recognizing things that are not nodes.
If something is available in the
network, it is perceived as part of
reality, but if it is not available it might
as well not exist."
Ulises Mejias: ‘The Limits of Social Networks for organising the social’
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42. Using online to find offline
• Google Street View
• Mentions of places
• White pages: phone numbers of local
businesses, residents
• People search - Pipl, registers
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48. What are your sources
searching for?
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49. What are your sources
searching for?
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50. SEO check
- Tags for names of people, companies,
places, concepts/terms/issues
- Does the headline include key name(s)?
- Ditto URL?
- Category?
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