La parenthèse Gutenberg. La lecture de la semaine n’est pas toute jeune, il s’agit de la retranscription d’un entretien donné en avril dernier au Nieman Journalism Lab (voir également sur le Forum du MIT) par un professeur danois du nom de Thomas Pettitt. Le Nieman Journalism Lab est un projet de l’université de Harvard, aux Etats-Unis, qui vise à interroger la possibilité de faire un journalisme de qualité à l’ère numérique. Ce professeur Thomas Pettitt applique aux questions journalistiques une théorie qu’on appelle la “parenthèse Gutenberg” et qui postule que nous aurions vécu avec l’imprimerie une parenthèse, et que la révolution à laquelle on assiste en ce moment est une révolution au sens littéral du terme, dans la mesure où elle nous ramène à un état antérieur, celui d’avant l’imprimerie, d’avant le prima du livre comme support de la vérité.
Voici comment l’explique Thomas Pettitt : “Il y a des changements qui se produisent et qui sont liés les uns aux autres. Et c’est ce qui se passe aujourd’hui. Bienvenue sur Pearltrees - Journalisme et réseaux sociaux: 11 tendances pour 2011 » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism. Rétrospective non exhaustive des idées qui ont été discutées ces derniers temps sur les blogs et dans les conférences sur le blog de Citizenside.
Bon, c’est vrai, le titre est facile, mais vous connaissez un titre davantage Google-Facebook-Twitter-friendly pour cette fin d’année ? Ni prédictions, ni révélations ici, mais une synthèse non exhaustive des idées lues, vues, entendues en cette fin d’année sur les blogs et dans les conférences (notamment Rencontres RSLN, LeWeb, news:rewired), par Citizenside On aurait pu titrer en parlant de “mots-clés”, mais c’est so 2008. 1/ SEO journalism, ou le journalisme d’autocomplétion Écrire et titrer pour Google ? Des spécialistes interviennent dans les rédactions pour aider les journalistes à mieux référencer leurs articles, comme Masha Rigin de TheDailyBeast.com, invitée par l’École de Journalisme de Sciences Po (merci à Alice Antheaume pour son récit de la journée).
Les journalistes peaufinent le titre que vous avez envie de lire. Dingue. Le modèle ? 10 Predictions for the News Media in 2011. In many ways, 2010 was finally the year of mobile for news media, and especially so if you consider the iPad a mobile device. Many news organizations like The Washington Post and CNN included heavy social media integrations into their apps, opening the devices beyond news consumption. In 2011, the focus on mobile will continue to grow with the launch of mobile- and iPad-only news products, but the greater focus for news media in 2011 will be on re-imagining its approach to the open social web.
The focus will shift from searchable news to social and share-able news, as social media referrals close the gap on search traffic for more news organizations. In the coming year, news media's focus will be affected by the personalization of news consumption and social media's influence on journalism. 1. Leaks and Journalism: A New Kind of Media Entity In 2010, we saw the rise of WikiLeaks through its many controversial leaks. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Syndication models will be disrupted in 2011. 8. 9.
Ecriture web. The 100 Percent Solution: For Innovation in News. Ivory tower dispatch: It’s all about the process. A stroke of luck at ivory tower land this week as Graham Holliday (with Dave Heywood from the BBC college of journalism) came up to talk to the students about how he fits digital in to what he does. If you don’y know Graham (@noodlepie) then I can recommend checking out his work.
He’s based in Kigali, Rwanda where he works as a foreign correspondent/photographer/trainer and publishes the KigaliWire What make Graham such a great example is the way he integrates digital in to what he does. It isn’t because he is a geek or because he has a ‘business model’ for kigaliwire. It’s because it just makes it easier to do his job and it helps build his brand. You can get an insight in to that from the Kigali Back wire It couldn’t come at a better time for me as most of my contact with students this week has been about process.
Anything but process journalism When brains go rougue. I left them with some more keywords to think about: BeatbloggingProcess JournalismCommunity Journalism I picked Old and new.
Online journalism and the promises of new technology PART 6: Conclusion. I totally forgot to wrap up this series – but here it is; the conclusion. Sorry about the delay. And by the way; the whole series is now published (in a slightly different version) as an article in the journal Journalism Studies (restricted access). Here are the previous posts: The revolution that never happened (part 1)The three main assets of new technology to online journalism — interactivity, hypertext and multimedia (part 2)Online journalism as hypertext (part 3) Online journalism and interactivity (part 4)Online journalism and multimedia (part 5) The previous posts of this series have left an impression that online journalism is left behind by the technological developments in new media. Journalists and editors seem, at least to some extent, eager to embrace change brought forward by new technology, while users don’t seem to care.
Some researchers suggest that ethnography and a closer look at the practices and routines of online news production is the answer. Like this: Online journalism and the promises of new technology PART 5: Multimedia. In this fifth and second to last part of this series I’ll review the research on how and to what degree multimedia is utilized in online journalism.
Previous parts of this series have focused on ( part 1 ); how to define the three main assets of new technology to online journalism — interactivity, hypertext and multimedia ( part 2 ); the research on the use of hypertext in online journalism ( part 3 ); and the research on online journalism and interactivity ( part4 ). As with hypertext and interactivity, most studies of multimedia in online journalism rely on content analysis of websites. Tanjev Schultz (1999) found that only 16 percent of online newspapers in the US had multimedia applications in the late 1990s. Two more qualitative oriented content analysis studies revealed similar lack of multimedia (In the US, Canada and the Netherlands: Nicholas W. There are not many studies that investigate the users’ attitudes towards multimedia news online. Online journalism and the promises of new technology PART 4: Interactivity.
Part 1: The revolution that never happened Part 2: The assets Part 3: Hypertext In the fourth part of this series I will take a closer look at the research on interactivity in online journalism and to what degree this asset of new technology has been and is utilized. As with hypertext, the research on interactivity in online journalism is dominated by content analysis, even though a greater body of this research also relies on surveys and interviews with journalists. Kenny et al. (2000) concluded that only 10 percent of the online newspapers in their study offered “many opportunities for interpersonal communication” and noted that little had changed since the introduction of Videotex 25 years earlier: “Videotex wanted to electronically push news into people’s homes, and so do today’s online papers”. Comparisons between these studies are, however, difficult to make, due to differences in both methodological approaches and theoretical understandings of what interactivity is.
Online journalism and the promises of new technology PART 3: Hypertext. This post is cross-published from my new journalism/new media-blog. Previous posts in this series: In the third part of this series I will take a closer look at the research on hypertext in online journalism and to what degree this asset of new technology has been and is utilized in online journalism. The general assumption of researchers interested in hypertextual online journalism is that if hypertext is used innovatively it would provide a range of advantages over print journalism: No limitations of spaceThe possibility to offer a variety of perspectivesNo finite deadlineDirect access to sourcesPersonalized paths of news perception and readingContextualization of breaking newsSimultaneous targeting of different groups of readers – those only interest in the headlines and those interested in the deeper layers of information and sources This list is generated from several sources, out of which the most important are: Content analysis studies Surveys User studies Like this: Like Loading...
Online journalism and the promises of new technology PART 2: The assets. This post is cross-published from my new journalism/new media-blog. In the first post in this series I argued that technology may not play such an important role to the development of journalism in new media as people seem to believe. In this post I will look at the three assets of new technology that are generally portrayed as the most significant for journalism in new media: multimedia, interactivity and hypertext (see for instance this article by Mark Deuze for arguments on why these three assets have been considered the most important for online journalism). The general assumption of the “techno-researchers” has been that an innovative approach to online journalism implies utilizing these three assets of new technology.
There are, of course, lots of other technological assets and/or concept related to technology that keeps popping up in the discourse on online journalism: In a 1996 article (pdf available here), Peter Dalhgren spoke of archival and figurational. Hypertext Interactivity. Online journalism and the promises of new technology PART 1: The revolution that never happened. Who would have thought, back in the 1990s, that by 2010, online newspapers would still be mainly about publishing written text to a mass audience? Not many. The general assumption shared by academics, practitioners and media executives alike was that journalism would be revolutionized by new technology. Online journalism would be all about multimedia, hypertext and interactivity. Some even believed that the Internet would cause the the end of journalism (pdf).
And the discourse surrounding both the practice of and research on online journalism is still quite preoccupied with how new technology will fundamentally change journalism. So why, then, is online journalism still mostly all about producing written text to a mass audience? In a series of posts I will take a closer look at online journalism and the promises of new technology. Take television: who would have thought in the 1950s and 1960s that radio would still be a powerful technological platform several decades later?
“The mass market was a hack”: Data and the future of journalism. The following is an unedited version of an article written for the International Press Institute report ‘Brave News Worlds (PDF)‘ For the past two centuries journalists have dealt in the currency of information: we transmuted base metals into narrative gold. But information is changing. At first, the base metals were eye witness accounts, and interviews. Later we learned to melt down official reports, research papers, and balance sheets. But now journalists are having to get to grips with a new type of information: data. Data: what, how and why Data is a broad term so I should define it here: I am not talking here about statistics or numbers in general, because those are nothing new to journalists.
This is a crucial distinction: it is one thing for a journalist to look at a balance sheet on paper; it is quite another to be able to dig through those figures on a spreadsheet, or to write a programming script to analyse that data, and match it to other sources of information. Like this: Markleehunter.free.fr/documents/IJ_business.pdf. Honnêtement, l’objectivité n’existe pas. (Que faire ?) » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism.