spider presentation by david isaksson

Internet power – and empowerment

David IsakssonSpider bord member, journalist, writer

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FROM A FEW SIMILAR MEDIA TO A MULTITUDE OF DIFFERENT MEDIA

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FROM ANALOG INFORMATION TO DIGITAL COMMUNICATION

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FROM DISSEMINATING INFORMATION TO CHANGING ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR

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FROM "EXPERTS COMMUNICATE" TO "EVERYONE COMMUNICATES"

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SOCIAL MEDIA MAKES THE WORLD MORE UNPREDICTABLE

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Muslim rage?

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“TWITTER IS MY CITY”“Twitter is my city, my favorite city. I can talk to

anybody I want to. And anybody who wants to talk to me will get my response. They know me better than their relatives or my relatives. There's so much imagination there; a lot of times it's just like poetry. You just read one sentence, and you sense this kind of breeze or a kind of look. It's amazing.”

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(Ai Weiwei)

Picture: Wikipedia

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IMPORTANT TRENDS• Freedom vs control

• Decline of traditional media

• End of investigative journalism?

• Crowdsourcing

• Open data

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Can power be translated into empowering those without a voice?

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“Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. ...That tension will not go away.”

Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Catalogue

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Open Data…

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… could really become an important tool, both for social media activist and for the civil society.

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LET’S COLLABORATE!• Let everybody participate, let everybody

contribute.

• Crowd-thinking, crowd sourcing.

• Citizen journalism.

• Everyone can be a spindoctor!

• Go viral.

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David Isakssondavid@globalreporting.netTwitter: davidglobal www.spidercenter.orgwww.globalreporting.net