A recent Slate article describes a University of Chicago study that concludes that “when it comes to online news, we aren’t nearly as isolated as we think.” Most of the sites we use to get our news get a pretty balanced mix of readers – they aren’t dominated by either liberals or conservatives. The most popular [...]
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This week the Library of Congress announced that it would begin to keep an archive of all Twitter posts dating back to the site’s inception in March of 2006. The collection numbers in the billions of tweets, with over 50 million new tweets each day. Fittingly, LOC first announced the new archive [...] I meant to post this series of war photographs by Ashley Gilbertson of the New York Times last month, when I first saw it. Ashley came to speak at a class I took last year (“Foreign Correspondence,” taught by the Washington Post’s war correspondent Jon Finer). He was working on this series at that time, and [...] In our last class, Vivian Schiller talked a bit about the NPR business model and how the revenue streams there allow for continued investigative journalism. However, in the corporate world where profit matters so much, it often affects the content being produced–in other words, the ever-present Editor versus Publisher conflict of decision-making based on content or [...] We’ve talked at length about how as the old media has transitioned to become the new media, news outlets have sought new mediums that help them stay relevant. This is particularly true of the New York Times, which has diversified its online content to include extensive multimedia coverage. NYTimes.com has grown to include blogs on everything [...] The Illinois Follow Up: My first post I made on this blog was in regards to the upcoming senate election in Illinois. I posted: “As of February 4, 2010, Kirk has 2,705 followers and Giannoulias trails with 1,509 followers on Twitter. Similarly, Kirk has 85 videos on YouTube and Giannoulias has 52 videos.” As of today, March 30, [...] We all heard Sam Graham-Felsen speak in class about new media and the Obama campaign, but I wish we had known about this new enterprise! Two days ago, on March 18th, his former partner at Facebook, Chris Hughes, announced the soft launch of Jumo.com, a Facebook of philanthropy, if you will, which the Huffington Post describes [...] The good folks at Planning Pool, an urban planning website run by U. British Columbia students, have enlisted Twitter as a means to air grievances about transit system. Did your MetroNorth train stop dead in its tracks because of mechanical malfunction? Did Yale Transit’s night shuttle take two hours to pick you up? Empower that negative energy [...] The Special Olympics is using new media not to share game highlights and scores or advertise the details for the next event, but to stop the use of the “R-word.” The Special Olympics Organization and NMS are pulling out all the stops in their campaign to eliminate the “R-word” and raise awareness because people do not [...] |
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