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Twittering the newsThe Emergence of
Ambient Journalism
Alfred HermidaUBC Graduate School of Journalism
Twitter timeThe Daily ShowMarch 2, 2009
131 Twitter accounts
1.47 million followers
UK National newspapers
Ruth Barnett, Sky News
Twitter correspondent
Aggregator of journalists’ tweets
MuckRack.com
Maureen Dowd, 2009
“A toy for bored celebrities and high-school girls.”
Ellen Goodman, 2009
“It’s like searching for medical advice in an online world of quacks and cures.”
Quoted in Brian Stelter, 2009
“Twitter? I won’t touch it. It’s all garbage.”
Multi-faceted, fragmented news experience
Georges SeuratLa Parade (1889) (detail)
Awareness systems
Computer-mediated communication systems “intended to help people construct and maintain awareness of each others’ activities, context or status, even when the participants are not co-located.” Markopoulos et al. 2009
Awareness systems
“As this technology becomes more affordable, with greater quality and diversity, awareness systems offer tremendous potential for innovation, with a wide range of forms and contexts for transforming the space around us.”
Markopoulos et al. 2009
Awareness systems
Awareness defined as “the ongoing interpretation of representations i.e. of human activity and of artifacts.”
Chalmers, 2009
Ambient journalism
Micro-bursts of data
Twitscoop.com
NowPublic.com Scan
Retw
eet: @
Daily
Us
Ambient conversation
The “stream of messages provided by Twitter allows individuals to be peripherally aware of discussions without being contributors.”
boyd et al, 2009
The future of Twitter
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