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November 15, 2005
Informal Presentation- Ch. 3
Chapter 3 begins by talking about how the rules have changed for both journalists and newsmakers, due to everyone having the ability to create the news.
"Information is an ocean, and newsmaker can no longer control the tide as easily as they once did."
This quote is an introduction to the three new rules for public life:
1. outsiders of all kinds can probe more deeply into newsmakers' businesses and affairs.
2. insiders are part of the conversation.
3. what gushes forth can take on a life of its own, even if it's not true.
Moblogging: mobile weblog or information posted to the Internet via the use of a cellular phone or PDA.
* First post= 1995 by Steve Mann
* Mann wore a wearable computer
* term was coined by Adam Greenfield in 2002
Source: Wikipedia
Freedom of Information Act: (52)
"[Russ] Kirk put Big Media to shame in April 2004 by using the Freedom of Information Act to get the military's photos of America's Iraq war dead-"
* Kirk did this by requesting these pictures...something that no other journalist/newsmaker thought of.
Russ Kirk and Freedom of Information Act
* When I went to this site, by Steve Baldwin, I discovered that people needed to support Kirk (on his site, linked above) in this request because being that he was a "small site owner" the fines that he was going to have to pay would be enough to make him disappear.
"Hacking in an open-source manner": (53)
* Gillmor also explains in this chapter that "hacking" is occurring by the average person, in order to make their technological products better or all together new. This is being done by "word of mouth."
* This type of "hacking" is making it easier for the average person to research how something is made, thus making a similar product of their own.
* The newest piece of technology is the handheld computer with a wireless Internet connection and a bar-code scanner
* This device allows people to connect to the Internet in a store and find out everything about the product that they have just scanned.
Conclusion:
Throughout the chapter Gillmor discusses how journalists/newsmakers must be transparent because the public is demanding it and when they (the average person) cannot see this transparency, they are going out and reporting the news on their own, whether it is true or not.
* By giving the average citizen the ability to report the news, newsmakers/journalists are becoming vulnerable because now the people who they usually speak about are now speaking about them in the same way. (62)
Posted by AshleeLupchinsky at November 15, 2005 11:52 AM
Comments
Great presentation, Ashlee! The way you organized key points such as "moblogging" reemphasized the chapter's theme of how the word gets spread. The links you provided were equally helpful.
Posted by: NancyGregg at November 16, 2005 01:36 PM
Thank you Nancy. I was very impressed with the information that I found on moblogging. I had never even heard of it before, but when I went on Google to research it, I came up with a number of different sites that had references to it. I'm glad that my links were of some use for you.
Posted by: Ashlee at November 16, 2005 06:53 PM