why news will never be the same

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Digital Media: Why the News will Never be the Same

Ian Fenwick & Dean Outerson

For Rotary Club of Bangkok South

February 11, 2011


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Digital Media: Why the Nudes will Never be the Same

Ian Fenwick & Dean Outerson

An evolution for better or worse


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William Gibson

The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed

“As the famous Canadian science fiction writer, who

coined the name ‘cyberspace’ said…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aljazeeraenglish/5407534421/sizes/o/in/photostream/ http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/this_week_in_photos_phones_facebook_and_revolution.php

January 31 2011 Al Jazeerah English

Recent events reinforce the main points of this talk. Who can doubt the role of digital, and of the

individual, in influencing those in power

“I want my internet back” Feb 1 2011 Monasosh

http://http://www.flickr.com/photos/89031137@N00/5410460720/sizes/o/in/photostream//

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gr33ndata/5410331165/sizes/o/in/photostream/

Facebook against Mubarak Cairo Feb 1 2011 gr33ndata

#iranelection people printed @Flickr photos #jan25 show photos on iPad #egypt

San Francisco Jan 29 2011 Steve Rhodeshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ari/5398543493/sizes/o/in/photostream/

Reverberating around the world. This a tweet sent in San Francisco


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Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

News is New

Distributed, Permanent, Concentrated

Liquified News


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Part 2

Part 3

Part 1 News is New

The news has always been changing, and always changed society


Pheidippides1st Persian WarStarted 492 BC, ended 490

One of the first news media


Whose run from Marathon to Athens to announce victory (or we think from Marathon to Athens)…is

still remembered today


http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-3664252364

Litter louts

In Marathon races all over the world


You have to say he had balls

http:// http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/ancient_greeks/greeks_at_war/teachers_resources.shtml

Victory!

He arrived in Athens he announced “Victory”…but of course he said it in Greek

http://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewiki/83/Soldat_Marathon_Cortot_Louvre_LP243.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/ancient_greeks/greeks_at_war/teachers_resources.shtml




Nike!

NIKE!





Nike!

And collapsed dead…with a swoosh!



Of course maps in those days were far from detailed


Athens

Marathon

Google Maps would have made it so much easier for Pheidippides


Athens

Marathon

Of course Google maps doesn’t

have “running” directions, only

walking…but watch out for the

missing sidewalk, and tuck some

coins in the loincloth for the tolls


Athens

Marathon

SpartaSome say that he actually went from

Athens to Sparta, in which case Google Maps recommends the ferry…and marathons would be

boat races


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If he’d had the full digital technology, reporting the news would save a lot of effort

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– http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?search=ap&npgno=3838&eDate=&lDate=

Nathan Mayer Rothschild1777-1836

Fast forwarding 2200 years or so we get

another major innovation in news


Mr Nathan Mayer Rothschild was a major “investor” in the Battle of Waterloo

Copyright © by ian fenwick. All rights reservedhttp://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/01/23/viktor-bout-the-icon-for-international-black-markets/

Nathan Mayer RothschildA modern day counterpart, allegedly, might be

this gent


As the Cambodians & Thais know, the French were never good at drawing maps


Run?Swim?Sail?Fly…

Nathan Mayer Rothschild

Mr Nathan knew that he needed to news of the Battle of Waterloo’s final score before his

competitors…how to do it


Run?Swim?Sail?Fly…Must invent helicopter

Nathan Mayer Rothschild

As an astute business man he knew that inventing the helicopter might take a while…


What about using something that could already fly…


He bought, and trained, six homing pigeons. His associates released this right after the final

score (England won). His offices across Europe got news of the result before his competitors


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palais_Rothschild_Nathaniel-Pl%C3%B6%C3%9Flg_8.JPG

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TriForkTower02.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rothschild_Boulevard_bank-benleumi_tower2.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palais_Rothschild-Renngasse_3.JPG

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rothschild-metternichgasse.jpg

He also knew the value of leaks and rumours. He at once started to sell…others thought that must mean the French had won…and also

started selling. When the markets were in free fall…he quietly started buying.

Laying the foundations, it is said, of the Rothschild fortune of today



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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TriForkTower02.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rothschild_Boulevard_bank-benleumi_tower2.jpg


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rothschild-metternichgasse.jpg




His counterpart is not, as yet, apparently so

successful


Perhaps using a bird to bring the news was the inspiration for Twitter?


Run?Swim?Sail?Fly?TAP?Nathan

Mayer Rothschild

Paul Julius Reuters

The next step for news was beyond running, sailing, flying…it was TAPPING

The telegraph spread news over wire: in a (sort of) binary code of dots & dashes…

News technology again changed the world

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/The_Times_%281865%29_Assassination_of_President_Lincoln.jpg

SCOOP!

1865Reuters had the news boat met in Ireland; telegraphed the news the last leg; beat the boat

by 7 hours


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Part 2

Part 3

Part 1 News is New

So the news has always been changing…


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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, Marshall McLuhan, McGraw-Hill, 1964,

the medium is the message

The Medium is the Massage, Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore Bantam Books, 1967,

“Famous Canadian Marshall McLuhan pointed out that the

medium changed society more than any message.

He even called the message (the news) the piece of meat the burglar holds to distract the

dog…in this case distracting the mind. While the medium

changed society


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“Another of his books supposedly misprinted

message as massage…he liked the title and kept with it


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A whole generation of consumers has grown up ‘digitally’, never embracing print as a medium… “ OliverWyman.com


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Who do you take to bed?

http://www.retrevo.com/content/blog/2010/03/social-media-new-addiction%3F

Do you check/update Facebook or Twitter after you go to bed?


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http://mashable.com/2011/01/04/internet-surpasses-television-as-main-news-source-for-young-adults-study/

Internet Passes TV as Main News Source for US Young Adults

2010:

65% of under 30’s

internet is major source for news

“

And is already

the news source

for many


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Do you check/update Facebook or Twitter first thing in the morning?

http://www.retrevo.com/content/blog/2010/03/social-media-new-addiction%3F


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Part 1

Part 3

Part 2

News is New

Distributed, PermanentCompact,

Digital is different


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Wired 14.07, July 2006, “His Space,” Spencer Reiss http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/murdoch.html

To find something comparable,

you have to go back 500 years to the

printing press,

“ the birth of mass media -- which incidentally

is what really destroyed the old world of kings & aristocracies

Distributed It’s DISTRIBUTED,as media mogul Rupert Murdoch

pointed out


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Wired 14.07, July 2006, “His Space,” Spencer Reiss http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/murdoch.html

Technology is shifting power

away from the editors, the

publishers, the establishment, the

media elite.

“Now it’s the people who are taking control.

Distributed

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahmadhammoudphotography/5410375058/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Protest 5. Tahiri Square Feb 1 2011 Ahmad Hammoud

Distributed

http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkroomproductions/5410984464/

http://thedailywh.at/

Broadcasting to the world. Anti Mubarak demonstration

Tahiri Square Feb 1 2011 Darkroom Productions

Distributed

Distributed

Intelligence Committee Chair, Dianne Feinstein

disappointed with the intelligence community“

was someone looking at what was going on the Internet?“

http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkroomproductions/5410984464/


http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/dianne-feinstein http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/2668878/posts?page=4

http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/dianne-feinstein




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“ We are the

mediumIn fact as we spend more time on social media, and

gather more news that we, it is WE who becoming the medium.

Like the villagers spreading newsone to another…now WE spread news in the world. We’ll see Citizen

Journalists in a moment


http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Communicate_if_Your_Government_Shuts_Off_Your_Internet


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Part 3

Part 2

News is New

Distributed, Compact,

Digital is compact

http://www.geekiegadgets.com/tag/memory/

3,000 pages of historical analysis &

4,000 pages of original government

documents in 47 volumes…

The Pentagon Papers covered about 7,000 pages.

Leaking those was a logistic challenge

http://www.geekiegadgets.com/tag/memory/

Compact

about 1.6 million pages(about 200 x Pentagon Papers)<4 mm thick

This thumb drive holds about 200 times the

Pentagon Papers


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http://www2.orlandoweekly.com/blog/culturetogo.asp?month=3&year=2009

http://www.amitbhawani.com/blog/dell-vostro-1710-laptop-review/

So secrets aren’t in safes any more,

protected by locks.They’re in computers

protected by passwords

http://www2.orlandoweekly.com/blog/culturetogo.asp?month=3&year=2009


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http://www.duosecurity.com/docs/top250gawker.txt

Some of the Gawker Group of websites were recently hacked and

some passwords taken


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http://www.duosecurity.com/docs/top250gawker.txt

Most popular Passwords?

#1 123456#2 Password#3 12345678#4 qwerty#5 abc123#6 12345

The most popular passwords are not too hard to guess.

Are you protecting your data? Or will

it be in tomorrow’s news?


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Part 1

Part 3

Part 2

News is New

Distributed, PermanentCompact,

Digital is forever


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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Soviet_censorship_with_Stalin.jpg

And then there was one

Permanent

As the Soviets knew, traditional media could be doctored. The

originals were hard to find


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T-CreVC_6Y

…you can’t take something off the internet

that’s like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool…

It’s in there, it’s in there

Joe Rogan, Newsradio

“Permanent


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http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=373854973434

http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/sarah-palin-shows-how-social-media-8217s-long-memory-can-trip-you/7771

http://twitter.com/sarahpalinusa/status/29677744457

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/01/09/palin-spox-targets-on-sarahpac-map-were-actually.aspx

“ we never, ever, ever intended it to

It was simply crosshairs

Aide Rebecca Mansour Slate, Jan 9 2011

be gunsights.

like you see on maps

Permanent

Sarah found that digital is forever. First she could take the map that

offended some off her website, but didn’t seem to be able to get it off

her Facebook





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“ we never, ever, ever intended it to

10:43 pm, Nov 4 2010

It was simply crosshairs

Aide Rebecca Mansour Slate, Jan 9 2011

be gunsights.

like you see on maps

Permanent

Then when she denied the crosshairs…someone turned up

her Tweet admitting them





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http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/45255/palin-to-hannity-yes-they-were-crosshairs-and-i-meant-blood-libel/

10:43 pm, Nov 4 2010

Palin did, however,

admit that, yes, her map included “crosshairs”

Permanent

She had to recant. Digital 1: Sarah 0






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Part 2

Part 1

Part 3

News is New

Distributed, Compact, Permanent

Liquified NewsThis distributed, compact, permanent news we call LIQUIFIED NEWS. News is no longer big pieces on

TV and in newspapers. It’s everywhere. It flows everywhere. It leaks…


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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601061225,00.html

Citizen Journalists

December 25, 2006

Over 4 years now since Time made YOU Person

of the Year


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http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/outofline/mydailywork/http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/outofline/mydailywork/

Citizen Journalists

December 25, 2006

We’re all

correspondents

now…or capable

of being so


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Ben Wedeman of CNN

http://mashable.com/2011/01/31/journalists-social-media-egypt/

Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times

Journalist Citizens

If regular news gets shut down, journalists too get the news out via social

networks


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Journalist & Citizens

Citizens and journalists work together to curate a tumblr blog in response to Egypt’s crack downs


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Al-Jazeera, its Cairo

bureau closed

Its press credentials revoked relies on tweets &

YouTube to get out the news

Citizen JournalistsAl-Jazeer, perhaps the biggest

brand gainer from recent events, gets the news out via social

networks


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Liquid news WILL leak


digiAindraLeaks

See how the new news, wikileaks, builds its credibility on the back of the traditional media brands. If the unknown Wikileaks had appeared

alone, it would be easily deniable…


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“in a world where leaking is easy

secretive or unjust systems are

Nonlinearly hit relative to open just systems

WikiLeaks


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http://gawker.com/#!5716034/wikileaks-big-leak-is-leaked

http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/10/former-wikileaks-employee-to-publish-tell-all-book/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Domscheit-Berg

http://www.amazon.com/Inside-WikiLeaks-Assange-Dangerous-Website/dp/030795191X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297075105&sr=8-1

Leaks in WikiLeaks

Already the leaks are leaking…liquid news is

hard to contain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Domscheit-Berg


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http://gawker.com/#!5716034/wikileaks-big-leak-is-leaked

http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/10/former-wikileaks-employee-to-publish-tell-all-book/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Domscheit-Berg

http://www.amazon.com/Inside-WikiLeaks-Assange-Dangerous-Website/dp/030795191X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297075105&sr=8-1

Leaks in WikiLeaks

Inside WikiLeaks: My Time

with Julian Assange at the

World's Most Dangerous Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Domscheit-Berg


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http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/01/this-week-in-review-wikileaks-new-rivals-ongos-aggregation-play-and-demand-media-makes-a-splash/

http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/al-jazeera-launches-new-unit-to-support-future-leaks/s2/a542455/

Wicked Leaks Now everyone is said to be getting their leaks in place…soon you will be able to choose just who

you leak to

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/01/this-week-in-review-wikileaks-new-rivals-ongos-aggregation-play-and-demand-media-makes-a-splash/


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We Have met big

brother and he is us

Citizen SurveillanceThe gap between Citizen Journalist and Citizen Surveillance is very small. For the first time in

history surveillance becomes so cheap & easy, that all can be surveilled

http://www.dailynews.co.th/content/images/1012/28/5.jpg

http://asiancorrespondent.com/45833/the-van-accident-and-underage-driver-what-does-it-tell-us-about-thai-society/

This pic of a girl below legal driving age (in Thailand), who may or may not have caused a fatal crash swept

digital media

Citizen Surveillance

Reportedly she had to change hospital three times after someone

tried to break into her room.

http://www.dailynews.co.th/content/images/1012/28/5.jpghttp://asiancorrespondent.com/45833/the-van-accident-and-underage-driver-what-does-it-tell-us-about-thai-society/


Retweeted

600 times




Retweeted

600 times




Retweeted

600 times

@PUREloveNUT the most

mentions (double the nearest

rival)#WeHateMissA,

the most popular topic among

Thai twitter users that day


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http://www.facebook.com/pages/manci-wa-khn-thiy-kein-lan-khn-mi-phxci-phaer-waxrchr-thephhasdin-n-xyuthya/142609679128323


This Facebook page calls her “the killer of nine

deaths”. Nine FB pages have been created to

condemn her.


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http://www.nationmultimedia.com/specials/nationphoto/show.php?id=30&pid=10102

The Nation’s cartoonist’s view of things


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http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/new-york-congressman-resigns-over-shirtless-photo/?emc=na

(Ex-)Representative Chris Lee of New York

Married, 46

Lobbyist Chris Lee Divorced, 39As sent to Craig’s List “women

seeking man” advertiser



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Part 3

News is New

Distributed, Permanent, Concentrated

Liquified News


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We always over estimate the change that will occur in the

next two years & underestimate the change

that will occur in the next ten.

Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction

http://www.jeffbullas.com/2009/11/04/45-social-media-trends-and-predictions/

“

Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation


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Social media doesn’t create revolutions: any more than it creates or destroys brands

Social media doesn’t create pain: it’s just where you feel pain

Social media lets people share their pains

Social media lets people realize they are not alone in what they think…

Very unsettling for tyrants & dictatorsFrom the discussion on http://blogs.hbr.org/samuel/2011/01/when-to-stop-and-when-to-keep-1.html

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