This document discusses how traditional news media is integrating with ambient social media like Twitter. It outlines several obvious uses of Twitter for traditional journalism, such as beat reporting, early warnings, sharing real-time content, tracing sources, and promoting individual journalists. However, it also raises tough questions about who verifies information on social media and whether journalists are prepared to work in a more collaborative distributed way. It questions whether Twitter exacerbates the general crisis in the news business by making news ubiquitous, and argues authority may be the scarce commodity that can be valued rather than paywalls.
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OBVIOUS USES OF TWITTER FOR TRADITIONAL JOURNALISM:
1: BEAT REPORTING (USE CONTENT SEARCH, GEOLOCATED)
2: EARLY WARNING (COMMUNITIES DECIDING WHATS NEWS)
3: REALTIME CONTENT (PHOTOS/AUDIO/VIDEO, 1-LINE DESCRIPTION)
4: TRACEABLE SOURCES / INTERVIEWEES / LEADS (@PUNTER)
5: CAN YOU HELP? (#QUESTION AT AM, #ANSWERS AT PM)
6: PROMO TOOL FOR TITLES/INDIVIDUAL JOURNALISTS/PIECES
7: EXPERTISE ARCHIVE (FOLKSONOMY OF KNOWLEDGE, ON THE MOVE)
8. TOUGH QUESTIONS ABOUT TWITTER/ SOCIAL @THEPLAYETHIC
MEDIA AND NEWS
WHO VERIFIES THESE FLOWS OF INFORMATION? THE NEWS
ORGANISATION - OR THE TRUTH COMMUNITY? WHATS THE VALUE IN
CLAIMING AUTHORITY?
CAN WE BREAK OUT OF 140 AS A DESIGN/CONTENT LIMITATION FOR
REAL-TIME MEDIA? MESO-BLOGGING AS WELL AS MICRO-BLOGGING?
HOW COLLABORATIVE AND DISTRIBUTED ARE JOURNALISTS
PREPARED TO BE ABOUT THEIR WORK PROCESS? (SEE WSJs
LIMITATIONS ON SOCIAL NETWORK UPDATING)
9. TWITTER AND THE GENERAL CRISIS OF THE @THEPLAYETHIC
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NEWS BUSINESS?
IN ROCKNROLL 2.0 THEY SAY USE WHAT IS
UBIQUITOUS TO DRIVE PEOPLE TO WHAT IS SCARCE
TWITTER/SOCIAL MEDIA MAKES NEWS UBIQUITOUS. BUT
WHAT IS SCARCE IN JOURNALISM & CAN BE
VALUED/MONETISED? NOT PAYWALLSBUT AUTHORITY?
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PAT KANE PLAYETHICAL@GMAIL.COM
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