Role of Online/Social Media in News
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UPDATE: Alisa has requested the Conversation be left open for 1 week. She will check back in over the week to continue the discussion with the community. Thank you all for your participation! As people have chatted with me about my TED ebook, Media Makeover: Improving The News One Click At a Time, many people of expressed their interest in having more transparency in the news. People are concerned about who is influencing the news (powerful people and organizations), are concerned that the news is just one big echo chamber and they are trusting media overall, less and less.
A conversation on TED.com: What is the importance of building transparency in news media, and what would like to see? Any risks?
Pupils in London and Liverpool air their views to Demos senior researcher Jamie Bartlett Osama Bin Laden is not dead; 9/11 was an inside job; and police were slow to tackle this summer's rioters as an excuse to lock up a whole raft of young black men. Conspiracy theories like these are nothing new; opposing views to the official line given by authorities are in fact crucial in exposing deceptions.
BBC News - Is the internet rewriting history?
Demonstrators burn an Israeli flag near the Israeli embassy in Cairo, Egypt Sunday, May 15. (AP) NPR’s Andy Carvin signed onto Twitter Sunday evening like he does most nights. As violence escalated at the Israeli embassy in Egypt, Carvin confirmed information, raised questions and re-tweeted users who were relaying information from the streets. File photo of Andy Carvin, of NPR. (Ricky Carioti - WASHINGTON POST)
NPR’s Andy Carvin tweets an Egyptian man’s secretly streamed video, capturing violence in real time - BlogPost - The Washington Post
In Baring Train Crash Facts, Blogs Erode China Censorship - NYTimes.com
They were a few short sentences, typed by a young girl with the online handle Smm Miao. But five days later, the torrent that followed them was still flooding this nation’s Internet, and lapping at the feet of government bureaucrats, censors and the state-controlled press. The train the girl saw, on a track outside Wenzhou in coastal Zhejiang Province, was rammed from behind minutes later, killing 40 people and injuring 191.
It's a great time to be working at Twitter. Remember CNN when the Gulf War started in 1990? Before then, it was watched mostly by obsessive news followers -- people in finance and government, political science professors, insomniacs. Then Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and suddenly CNN was everywhere. Even in bars. That's what's going to happen with Twitter after tonight's announcement that U.S.