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Kathy E. Gill 19 October 2010
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November 1990: one web host (CERN) 1994: the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives added web servers 1994: the San Jose Mercury News launched the first online newspaper 1998: ~300 million web pages 2000: Google had indexed 1B web pages July 2008: Google had indexed 1T web pages
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1999: Yahoo! buys GeoCities, host to 3.5 million individual Web sites (most abandoned!) 1999: the Poynter Institute starts the “MediaNews” blog 2002: Google buys Blogger; estimate of 500,000 blogs worldwide in total February 2002: Salon and Fox News add blogs 2003: Iraq war gives rise to war blogger 2009: 6 million blogs on Wordpress.com; >1B monthly pageviews; Yahoo! shutters GeoCities
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The Charlotte Observer used a blog format to report on Hurricane Bonnie in August 1998; “Dispatches from the Coast” is the first known use of blog to cover a breaking news story.
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What Changed?
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Increasingly Disintermediated
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Transmission Networks
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Transmission Speed
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Enter: The Real-Time Web
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Amplified voices of dissent Facilitated misinformation (intentional and unintentional) Incomplete story Emotional Triggered MSM response
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Oregonian (note date launched) Oregonian Multi-organization collaboration – Washington Floods, 2009 Multi-organization collaboration A Contrarian View of Twitter and Iran, June 2009 A Contrarian View of Twitter and Iran
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Mobile Data Usage Cuts Across Age Groups April 2009 “Mobile Technographics®”
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March 2008: 85% iPhone users accessed news & info v 13.1% all mobile users and 58% all smart phone users
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More Working iPhone Owners Use Social Media June 2009 “Working iPhone Owners Tap The Mobile Internet”
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Mobile Technographics: Understanding The Connected Consumer April 2009 “Mobile Technographics®”
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First personal mass medium First always-on mass medium First always-carried mass medium First mass medium where individuals can be identified First mass medium to facilitate the “creative impulse” Source: Mobile Design and Development (p39) and http://communities- dominate.blogs.com/brands/2007/02/mobile_the_7th_.htmlhttp://communities- dominate.blogs.com/brands/2007/02/mobile_the_7th_.html
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Blogging is part of the web’s evolutionary path The real time web (Twitter et al) is the next mediamorphosis Impact on civic life will depend on media literacy efforts
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Creative Commons, share-and-share alike, attribution, non-commercial Kathy E. Gill @kegill kegill@uw.edu http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill http://wiredpen.com/
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1. Kent State, photo John Paul Filo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootin gs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootin gs 2. Tank Man, http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behin d-the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/ http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behin d-the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/ 3. Death of Neda Agha-Solton, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Ag ha-Soltan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Ag ha-Soltan
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