Social & new media tactics: Generating and curating provincial news
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Social & new media tactics: Generating and curating provincial news
Sanjana HattotuwaEditor, 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 in the later part of the 20th century. New media is not television programs, feature films, magazines, books, or paper-based publications. (Wikipedia)
new media and foundations
• Blogs
• Social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Myspace)
• Google Maps
• Mobiles: SMS, MMS, Mobile photography and video
• VoIP: Skype, Google Chat
• And making it all possible are ADSL, 3G HSPA wireless broadband
what’s new
• Ubiquity of two way communications
• Addressable peoples, even those who IDPs or refugees
• News generation and dissemination linked to new media
• Disintermediated models vs. traditional media model
• Citizens as producers
• Low resolution content broadcast on high definition media
what’s old and enduring challenges
• Impartial, accurate coverage still vital, increasingly hard to ascertain
• Torrent of information. Trickle of knowledge.
• Veracity / Verifiability?
• Post-disaster communications can be unreliable and difficult
• New media / technology illiteracy
What is out there?
online video: Vikalpa YouTube Channelwww.youtube.com/vikalpasl
kottu: blog aggregationwww.kottu.org
sinhala bloggers union: blog aggregationwww.sinhalabloggers.com
sinhala bloggers union: blog aggregationwww.sinhalabloggers.com
online video: Perambara YouTube Channelwww.youtube.com/internewslanka
online news from provinces: Vikalpa www.vikalpa.org
online news from provinces: Perambara www.perambara.org
twitter: new perspectives
flickr content on sri lanka: www.flickr.com
Producing content from the provinces
essential email account: Gmail
essential sinhala unicode toolshttp://ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/ltrl/services/feconverter
wordpress.com: blogging
ustream.tv: broadcasting via a PC
bambuser.com: mobile phone broadcasting
drop.io: reports through audio
Pulling it all in and keeping abreast
google maps in elections monitoring
google search: Updates from social media
google reader: a web based RSS reader
google docs: web based document management
google calendar: web based document management
know your twitter hastags (#slelections)
twitter: desktop aggregation via Seesmic Lookseesmic.com/look
spy: http://spy.appspot.com
news management toolkit
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