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Crime and judicial reporting Leveraging new and social media Sanjana Hattotuwa TEDGlobal Fellow 2010 Editor, Groundviews (www.groundviews.org)
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Crime and judicial reportingLeveraging new and social media
Sanjana Hattotuwa
TEDGlobal Fellow 2010Editor, Groundviews (www.groundviews.org)
what is social media?
• Social media uses Internet and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues (one to many) into social media dialogues (many to many). It supports the democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers. (Wikipedia)
what is new media?
• New media is a term meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized, or networked information and communication technologies.
• New media is not television programs, feature films, magazines, books, or paper-based publications. (Wikipedia)
• But increasingly, old media is leveraging the web, Internet and mobiles in generating and disseminating news and information.
new media and foundations
• Blogs
• Social networks (Twitter, Facebook)
• Google Maps
• Mobiles: SMS, mobile photography and video
• VoIP: Skype, Google Chat
• And making this all possible is ADSL + 3G wireless broadband
what’s new
• Ubiquity of two way communications
• Addressable peoples, even those who IDPs or refugees
• Both news generation and dissemination leverages new media
• Disintermediated models vs. traditional media model
• Citizens as producers
• Low resolution content broadcast on high definition media
old media model
Event / Issue
Journalist
Consumer Mainstream
media
new media models
Event / Issue
Journalist
Consumer Citizen media
Mainstream media
Consumer
the revolution
Journalist Consumer
Journalist Consumer / Witness
News as a conversation
News as a package
What is out there?
readership and reach: web media
From 19 – 27 May 2010, Groundviews ran a special edition on the end of war in Sri Lanka. Over this week alone, the site received over forty thousand readers and exclusively featured over eighty-thousand words of original content, one video premiere, over a dozen photos, generating over one hundred and fifty thousand words of commentary. Tens of thousands more have read and commented on this content since.
readership and reach: 18th amendment
• Groundviews was read well over 22,000 times from 1 – 9 September, when content and debates around the 18th Amendment to the constitution reached their peak. Over 170 comments were featured in the site during this week alone, totalling around 65,000 words. In addition to the content on the site, our Twitter feed posted well over one hundred and fifty updates during the course of the week.
• Content on Groundviews was republished or referred to by the Sunday Leader, the New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique dozens of other local and international Twitter accounts of leading journalists and others, Livemint.com published by the Wall Street Journal in India and a range of other blogs and websites.
online video: Vikalpa YouTube Channelwww.youtube.com/vikalpasl
alternative politics in Sinhala: Vikalpa www.vikalpa.org
kottu: blog aggregationwww.kottu.org
sinhala bloggers union: Sinhala blog aggregationwww.sinhalabloggers.com
sinhala bloggers union: Sinhala blog aggregationwww.sinhalabloggers.com
social networking: facebook reach with $0
social networking: facebook reach with $0
Avg. FB account: 130 friends
Updates featured on 208,000+ FB accounts. Instantly.
Groundviews FB page has 1,600+ fans
social networking: facebook
podcasts: apple iTunes
Managing content: Pushing out
essential email: gmail / google account
wordpress.com: blogging
wordpress.com: blogging via phonehttp://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-voice
ustream.tv: broadcasting via a PC
bambuser.com: mobile phone broadcasting
ustream: mobile phone broadcastinghttp://www.ustream.tv/mobile
flickr: posting images via mobileshttp://www.flickr.com/tools/mobile
drop.io: reports through audio
transferring large fileshttps://www.wetransfer.com
Managing content: Pulling in
google search: updates from social media
google news: thousands of sources
google alerts: thousands of sourceshttp://www.google.com/alerts
google reader: a web based RSS reader
enduring challenges
• Impartial, accurate coverage still vital, increasingly hard to ascertain
• Torrent of information, trickle of knowledge
• Veracity and verifiability
• Eye-witness accounts are partial, subjective
• New media / technology illiteracy even amongst journalists
• Apathy and animosity against citizen journalism
• Licensing and attribution of online content
key points: recap
• New technologies potentially give voice to all citizens
• Be sceptical of new information, but use new media to push and pull content
• Develop media literacy to embrace new technologies
Thank you
