Citizen journalism Skills none Concepts citizen journalist use

Citizen journalism Skills: none Concepts: citizen journalist, use of Usenet, Wikipedia, blogs, Twitter and Facebook by citizen journalists, news archives, the interaction between citizen and mainstream journalism, Usenet This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. 0 License.

Where does this topic fit? • Internet concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications • Internet skills – Application development – Content creation – User skills

Citizen journalism → What point is this slide making?

Pre Internet citizen journalism, March 1991 Video Do you recognize this event?

Soviet coup attempt Early, naïve optimism about the political impact of the Internet Source Tiananmen square At first we were naively optimistic about the democratizing effect of the Internet. This optimism was fueled by early examples in the Soviet coup attempt and the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in China. Source

Tiananmen Square – the first network citizen journalism? The situation here seems getting better and better. All army members are blocked outside Beijing city. There are still thousands of students in Tan’anman square. They said “we will not end until our aims are reached”. So right now, the life in Beijing is very peaceful, there are no any reason for the army to entry the city. The soldiers themselves don’t want to get in to face to the students and the people there. May 23, 1989 Source

Internet citizen journalism, August 1991 Protests in Moscow Kremvax They try to close all mass media, they stopped CNN an hour ago, and Soviet TV transmits opera and old movies. But, thank Heaven, they don't consider RELCOM mass media or they simply forgot about it. Now we transmit information enough to put us in prison for the rest of our life. Polina Antonova Video clip, 3 m 13 s, (highlight at 1 m 40 s : -)

Historical archive of Soviet coup attempt traffic

Wikipedia: the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack

The initial page Visit the Wikipedia page today

Wikipedia after 21 hours 44 minutes 4, 780 words 942 edits 149 anonymous 93 unidentifiable

Subsequent refinement (Through 12/31/2016) Page size (bytes) 132, 795 Total revisions 6, 021 Number of editors 2, 083 Number of page watchers 358 Number of references 255 External links 6

Continued revision

Continued relevance -- Page views 12/2016 68, 087 page vies (average of 2, 196 per day)

Social networks: Arab Spring, 2011 "Thank you Facebook"

Bloggers as citizen journalists Arab Spring archive, 2011

What has been the role of citizen journalists and the Internet in the Black Lives Matter protests?

Citizen journalists feed news coverage Hudson River plane crash More eyewitness photos

Citizen journalists feed news coverage @acarvin

Journalists covering the Syrian civil war The book On the Media interview, 1 m 27 s

The future ? ? ? Facebook Live – a billion people able to stream live video

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Usenet (optional material)

Self-study questions How does the current Wikipedia article on the Mumbai terrorist attacks compare with the article at the time this presentation was created? Has it continued to evolve? (You can find many statistics under the History tab on the Wikipedia page). We have looked at four examples of citizen journalism. Describe another one.

Resources • • • Video of the Rodney King beating (9 m 40 s): http: //youtu. be/4 Oau. OPTwbqk For more on the Soviet coup attempt including articles, quotes from participants and a link to the historical archive of all network traffic: http: //www. cs. oswego. edu/~dab/coup/ News coverage of the Soviet coup attempt with an interview of me: http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=8 VAHy 76 QO 7 o&feature=player_embedded Global Voices extensive archives and The Guardian’s review of the Arab Spring http: //bit. ly/x. IShqt Wikipedia page on the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks: http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/November_2008_Mumbai_attacks Washington Post article on Andy Carvin: http: //www. washingtonpost. com/lifestyle/npr-andy-carvin-tweeting-the-middleeast/2011/04/06/AFc. Sdh. SD_story. html PBS interview of Andy Carvin discussing his methodology (7 m 28 s): http: //www. pbs. org/newshour/rundown/2011/02/nprs-andy-carvin-on-tracking-andtweeting-revolutions. html Tweeting graphic videos from Syria, On. The. Media, February 10, 2012 http: //www. onthemedia. org/tags/andy_carvin/ Video interview of Andy Carvin (65 m 5 s) http: //www. onthemedia. org/blogs/on-themedia/2013/jan/29/brooke-gladstone-live-andy-carvin/ Andy Carvin’s book, Distant Witness: http: //amzn. to/150 Fy. QZ