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39 Cards in this Set
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Media Landscape
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-The devices that enable and extend our abilities to
communicate The communication activities and practices we engage to develop and use these devices The social arrangements or organizations that form around the devices and practices |
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new media
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Media that is manipulatable, networkable, dense, compressible, interactive and impartial
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What’s new about new media?
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New textual experiences
New representations New relationships between users and technologies New experiences of identity and community New patterns of organization and production |
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New media landscape
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a platform through the internet which allows unprecedented access to an abundance of information
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Mediamorphosis
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how media changes
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Characteristics of online journalism
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Immediacy
Limitless and unrestricted Storage and retrieval Multimedia Non-linear Audience control Audience participation Networked |
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Immediacy (Characteristic of online journalism)
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Constant news cycle
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Limitless and unrestricted (Characteristic of online journalism)
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Infinite space for
information Need to shape content to fit digital medium Archival feature |
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Storage and retrieval (Characteristic of online journalism)
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Infinite archive
Create links to additional information Possible information overload Role of the journalist to find the most relevant and accurate information |
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Multimedia (Characteristic of online journalism)
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combination of video, audio, images, text
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Non-linear (Characteristic of online journalism)
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New ways of organizing information
The story does not have a linear beginning or end |
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Audience control and participation (Characteristic of online journalism)
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A new relationship between journalists and
audiences is forming The public can respond, create, interpret and disseminate news and information |
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Networked (Characteristic of online journalism)
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News sites no longer the
only destination Moving between websites and webpages |
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Participatory journalism
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The act of a citizen, or group of citizens, playing an
active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information. |
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Tools for participation (give examples)
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Polls
Message boards “Have your say” Comments Q & As Blogs Reader blogs “your media” “your stories” |
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News production process
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Access and observation
Selection and filtering Processing and editing Distribution Interpretation |
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Information overload
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Increasing rate of information production
Information is easily duplicated and transmitted Information can reach us through more channels Information accumulates and there is an abundance of historical material Inaccuracies and contradictions |
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Gatekeepers
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Editors and reporters who make thousands of
decisions every day in effort to determine what is newsworthy and in the public interest. External factors can include personal bias or disconnect and marketplace pressures. |
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Web 2.0
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Social Networking Sites
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Privacy (definition)
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the ability to do things in our lives without public scrutiny
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Journalists when considering privacy
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Balancing the right to know with the right to be left
alone What was the original intent of the material that was posted? |
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What does journalism do?
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The primary purpose of journalism is to provide
people with the information they need to be free and self-governing. |
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Journalism as an ideology
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Public service
Objectivity Autonomy Immediacy Ethics |
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Public service (Journalism as an ideology)
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journalists serve the public and seek
to provide people with the information they need to be free and self-governing. |
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Objectivity (Journalism as an ideology)
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journalists are impartial, neutral
objective, fair and credible |
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Autonomy (Journalism as an ideology)
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journalists must be free and independent
in their work |
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Immediacy (Journalism as an ideology)
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journalists have a sense of actuality and
speed |
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Ethics (Journalism as an ideology)
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journalists have a sense of validity and
legitimacy |
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Journalists and blogging
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Do journalists blog as reporters or as an individual?
Does blogging compromise neutrality? Does blogging suffer from a lack of editorial scrutiny? Blogging allows for context, analysis, interpretation, personal confession and a behind-the-scenes look at events Does this ad value? |
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Convergence
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separate technologies such as voice, data and video that now share resources and interact with each other
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Gatekeeping
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the process through which ideas and information are filtered for publication. The internal decision making process of relaying or withholding information from the media to the masses.
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Participatory Media
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Participatory media is social media whose value and power derives from the active participation of many people
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Citizen journalism
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the concept of members of the public "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information
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Blog
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a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video
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Gutenberg's press
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a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring an image
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Fourth Estate
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a term referring to the press
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Watchdog journalism
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forms of activist journalism aimed at holding accountable public personalities and institutions whose functions impact social and political life
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Public sphere
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an area in social life where people can get together and freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action.
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Prosumer
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producing consumer
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