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. Citizen journalism
Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Internet skills – Application development – Content creation – User skills
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Pre Internet citizen journalism, March 1991 Do you recognize this event?
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 Kremvax Protests in Moscow Video clip, 3m 13s, (highlight at 1m 40 s :-) Internet citizen journalism, August 1991
Historical archive Historical archive of Soviet coup attempt traffic
Wikipedia: the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack
Visit the Wikipedia page today The initial page
Wikipedia after 21 hours 44 minutes 4,780 words 942 edits 149 anonymous 93 unidentifiable
Subsequent refinement
Continued relevance views in the last 30 days
"Thank you Facebook" Social networks: Arab Spring, 2011
Arab Spring archive, 2011 Bloggers as citizen journalists
Citizen/conventional
Journalists covering the Syrian civil war On the Media interview, 1m 27s The book
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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 (9m 40s): For more on the Soviet coup attempt including articles, quotes from participants and a link to the historical archive of all network traffic: News coverage of the Soviet coup attempt with an interview of me: Global Voices extensive archives and The Guardian’s review of the Arab Spring Wikipedia page on the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks: Washington Post article on Andy Carvin: east/2011/04/06/AFcSdhSD_story.html east/2011/04/06/AFcSdhSD_story.html PBS interview of Andy Carvin discussing his methodology (7m 28s): tweeting-revolutions.html tweeting-revolutions.html Tweeting graphic videos from Syria, OnTheMedia, February 10, Video interview of Andy Carvin (65m 5s) media/2013/jan/29/brooke-gladstone-live-andy-carvin/ media/2013/jan/29/brooke-gladstone-live-andy-carvin/ Andy Carvin’s book, Distant Witness: