New Media
Maybe no one has told you yet; we are the news. That's a good thing, so long as we have freedom of speech. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Storify, blogs, and so forth are the new media, and the content is our responsibility. Consider what you're bringing to the conversation. It counts for more than we can see firsthand; in a world where there is ~4.7 degrees of separation between you and everyone else, what you have to say carries. Mark your words, and use your voice. Is that blurry picture of what you ate for breakfast what you really want to say? Dec 24
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Baltimore – Howard Besser, a New York University archivist, recently got into a shouting match at an Occupy protest, making a case for why the activists should preserve records of their activities. “Within the Occupy movement there’s a huge suspicion of traditional organizations, including libraries and universities,” Mr. Besser explained Monday at the spring meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information. The shouting match was an extreme moment, but Mr. Besser and other archivists on a panel here explained that they have had to take unusual steps to try to gather a snapshot for future scholars of the nationwide Occupy protests, which call attention to income inequality in the United States. Those steps—including distributing postcards promoting archiving at protests, developing automated systems to download photos posted online, and asking participants to vote on which images are most important for the historic record—could serve as a model for preserving future events.
For Archivists, ‘Occupy’ Movement Presents New Challenges - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
A few days ago, I posted a piece about the Pepper Spray incident at UC Davis. When people saw the original video clip, they overwhelmingly supported students and felt the police had acted harshly and without justification. When I posted a longer video clip, those who commented on my blog, on Twitter and Facebook were about evenly divided on whether police actions were justified or not. The point of my post seems to have gotten a little lost. I was calling for a need for balance in citizen-generated news content.
crystal cox, $25 million libel — Global Neighbourhoods
Citizen journalism in the simple sense is news collected and published online by people like you and me. We aren’t reporters by any stretch, but citizen journalism websites gives us an opportunity to speak as interested observers. It is freedom of speech without any censorship in its unadulterated sense. Citizen journalism as first witness accounts or even as second hand reporting has gained credibility thanks to many media channels. The common man as a commentator or a reporter also goes where walking-the-beat journos sometimes can’t.
7 Citizen Journalism Websites For Crowdsourced News
Consolidation of corporate power; unprecedented cuts to newsrooms; concentration of ownership; the rise of the public relations industry; the intensification of disinformation campaigns; reliance on right-wing think tanks. While you won't read about it in the papers, these ongoing trends are cause for increasing alarm among hundreds of thousands of Canadians. These trends have also led to the largest resurgence in independent media activity in decades. In Canada, as elsewhere, diverse efforts involving thousands of people have arisen. However, these efforts remain largely obscure to the vast majority of Canadians.
independentmedia.ca: a directory of non-corporate journalism
I have assembled a catalogue of 85 tools to help you run a more effective social media program for your campaign, organization, or business. Most of these are free. A lot are for Twitter.
A Catalogue of Social Media (and Related) Tools | Digital Politics | Big Think
Global directory of #occupy live video streams
Occupy Streams Watch Occupy Livestream, UStream, Justin.tv and Bambuser video feeds from all over the world — peace and power to the people!
Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker
At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away. The Woolworth’s lunch counter was a long L-shaped bar that could seat sixty-six people, with a standup snack bar at one end. The seats were for whites.Social Media and the UK Riots: “Twitter Mobs”, “Blackberry Mobs” and the Structural Violence of Neoliberalism “One formula [...] can be that of the mob: gullible, fickle, herdlike, low in taste and habit. [...] If [...] our purpsoe is manipulation – the persuasion of a large number of people to act, feel, think, known in certain ways – the convenient formula will be that of the masses”. — Raymond Williams “What is true of London, is true of Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, is true of all great towns.
Social Media and the UK Riots: “Twitter Mobs”, “Facebook Mobs”, “Blackberry Mobs” and the Structural Violence of Neoliberalism | Christian Fuchs
Digital activists have gone online and adopted the logic of the marketplace. Photograph: Stone/Getty A battle is raging for the soul of activism.
Clicktivism is ruining leftist activism | Micah White | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Francesca Polletta Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport wade into the debate over the role of the Internet in contemporary social movements with a provocative claim: the Internet is ushering in a new repertoire of protest. In this repertoire, mobilizations are sporadic rather than deep-rooted and enduring. Protests flare up, gather huge numbers to the cause, and then fade away—sometimes to reemerge, other times not. More people participate than in earlier repertoires, and they do so for diverse reasons: because they care passionately about the cause or because they’re mildly concerned; because they believe that protest will be effective or because they just want to express themselves. Targets are diverse and issues are too.
Maybe you’re better off not holding hands and singing We Shall Overcome | Mobilizing Ideas
Yes! We couldn’t be more excited! As MoveOn Executive Director Justin Ruben puts it: “This is a historic day.