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Key trends in of Journalism in the Digital World.
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1) 24/7 News Cycle - online news is not tied to a specific time slot. Updated constantly.
2) Nontraditional News Sources - Getting info from blogs or discussion groups or straight from websites instead of traditional CNN type news sources 3) Online Users Media Habits - Shorter attention spand and search for exactly what they want to see. 4)Personalization - Internet allows us to personalize what we see. Weather forcast, sports teams etc. 5) Contextualization of News - Journalist provide hyperlink and other context to back up news story. 6) Convergent Journalism - Video, audio, and graphics enhance text and make them more pleasurable to the viewer than a newspaper. |
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Key Ethical Dilemmas in Journalism : Privacy Rights Versus Publics right to know, Going Undercover, Victimizing the victims.
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Privacy Rights Versus Publics right to know - No law saying public has to know more just a understood principle for journalist to inform public.
2) Going Undercover - Is it ethical to go undercover and use video and announcing idenities to get a good story. 3) Vicitimizing the Victims - Making big stories and providing pictures of criminals therefore ruining their image. |
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Media Bias : Gatekeeping Bias
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Writers and editors choose news to be presented to public. When you choose this you deselect other stories.
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Media Bias : Coverage Bias
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Physical amount of coverage on a new subject.
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Media Bias : Statement Bias
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Members of media inject their own opinion into the coverage.
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Specific form of news bias in Journalistic wirting : Bias by choice of words
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The use of positive or negative words with a particular connotation can strongly influence the reader
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Specific form of news bias in Journalistic wirting : Bias by Omission
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ommiting an opposing view on a topic ex. Republican ingnoring democratic veiw on abortion.
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Specific form of news bias in Journalistic wirting : Bias by sources
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Include more sources for one viewpoint than the other.
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Specific form of news bias in Journalistic wirting : Bias by objectivity
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Only selelcting view points that support their opinion.
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Basic functionality of Digg
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People read online new articles and if they like them they "Digg it and the most Dugg stories appear on the front page.
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How is Digg different then other Web 2.0 sites like Facebook,Twitter?
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Friends - instead of adding real life friends you are suggested ones through people who enjoy the same type of media you do.
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What is a potential pitfall of Digg
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Since people are paid for top stories it can lead to corruption on many different levels.
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What was the Ron Paul and Obama case on Digg
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Ron Paul dominated the web poll by using his supporters to up his stories so that more people would read and vote with him. In real life though Obama crushed Ron Paul in the offline politics.
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