Presentation delivered to Internews Afghanistan, in Kabul on 2nd April 2015, looking at social media trends and techniques applicable in the specific geo-political context of the country.
6. what’s new?
• Ubiquity of two way communications
• Addressable peoples, even those who IDPs or refugees
• Disintermediated models vs. traditional media model
• People as producers
• Low resolution, hyperlocal helps focus and granularity
• Aggregation of low resolution helps macro analysis and
strategy
7. what’s new?
• Democratisation of the technologies of bearing witness
• Social media as the new commons
• Acts of journalism
8. Old Media Consumer
Social Media
Consumer /
Witness /
Producer
Information as a conversation
Knowledge through curation
Information as a package
Passive
Active / Reactive