Journalism 2.0The future of news

Rebecca MacKinnon

http://Rconversation.blogs.comwww.GlobalVoicesOnline.org

“Read-only” vs. “Read-write”

Citizen Journalism/Citizen’s Media

Dan Gillmor - former San Jose Mercury News

“The former audience”

LECTURE

Journalism 1.0 Conversation

Journalism 2.0

1990’s: Web 1.0

My blog as simple example

Of Web 2.0

Writing...

Linking Out

Links create a web of conversation

screenshot: technorati

appear: google & its links

screenshot: technorati

appear: google & its links

Syndicate

Content is freed of container

New York Times website

Feeds

from NYT

NYT feed in Google Reader

Tagging & Social Bookmarking

Everybody’s “journalism” tag

2006 Chinese Blogger Conference, Hangzhou

Chinese bloggers share coverage of

their activities on photosites like Flickr.com through

the “cnbloggercon” tag

“Baghdad blogger” Salam Pax

“I try to dispel the image that Muslims and Arabs suffer from - mostly by our own doing I have to say - in the rest of the world. I am no missionary and don’t want to be. I run several internet websites that are geared to do just that, create a better understanding that we’re not all nuts hell-bent on world destruction.”

ZOLA & THE NAILHOUSE

• Internet-> traditional media, then mutual reinforcement

• When media coverage was shut down, there was so much on the internet the ban was ineffectual

The New Media Ecosystem

Source: Morgan Stanley October 2004 report: “Update from the Digital World” by Mary Meeker et. al.

Credibility 2.0

Then... Now...

Audience size (market success)

Professional credentials

Peer respect

(community

reputation)

Transparency &

honesty

Then...

High cost of production

Scarcity of space,airtime, etc.

Now...

Low cost of production

Scarcity of attention

Info Supply & Demand 2.0

A portrait of global media attention:(Data from Google News, July 2006)Countries in red have more storiesCountries in blue have fewer(Courtesy Ethan Zuckerman at: http://h2odev.law.harvard.edu/ezuckerman/)

127 million people2nd largest world economy12582 CNN.com stories

130 million people54th largest world economy937 CNN stories

(Data courtesy Ethan Zuckerman http://ethanzuckerman.com/)

Global Voices Online

Text

“Citizen Journalism”

New Citizen media projects

Business Model 2.0

AudienceViewersReadersCustomers

Community

Newsvine: bought by MSNBC

Gather.com

Washington Post goes 2.0

Text

Public Radio 2.0 Experiment

Bloggers + Journalists

Obstacles to a truly Global Conversation:

•ATTENTION: The caring problem. What people need to know vs. what they enjoy knowing and talking about.

•LANGUAGE: The internet is becoming more multi-lingual… translation requires effort.

•ACCESS: The people whose voices we most need to hear are the ones who are least able to speak out online. (Internet 40x more expensive for Africans than Americans!)

•CENSORSHIP: Roughly 40 national governments now censor their Internet. (For more info see OpenNet.net)

What does this meanfor journalism

students?My email: rmack@hku.hk

Blog: http://rconversation.blogs.comGlobal Voices: http://www.globalvoicesonline.org

JMSC: http://jmsc.hku.hkNew Media Workshop:

http://jmsc.hku.hk/blogs/newmedia“Hong Kong Stories” http://jmsc.hku.hk/hkstories

Credits: Many thanks to Ethan Zuckerman, Isaac Mao, and others for ideas and materials . This work is licensed under the Creative

Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/