how we media makes histor y dale peskin [email protected] #dalepeskin
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[1995]NDN-Rand scenarios for y2010• Society fragments• Internet creates universal community• Communications tech shapes global culture• Media sources and products proliferate• Everyone is a reporter• Mass media declines
[2003] We Media reportEveryday citizens set the agenda for news and information.
The technology of common senseTourist photos and videos
Mobile phones and cameras
Sri Lanka tsunami26 December 2004
The personal reporting deviceMobile phone photography
London tube bombings 7 July 2005
The personal reporting deviceMobile phone photography
London tube bombings 7 July 2005Virginia Tech shooting 16 April 2007
“My friends could be dead”Personal video, Twitter
Documenting the moment and beyondPersonal video, social media (Weibo)
Chengdu, China earthquake 12 May 2008
Humantarian relief ($10m)Internet donations & Text Haiti 90999
Haiti earthquake 12 January 2010
Organizing and communicating the revolutionOrganizing and communicating the revolutionMobile phones, You Tube and social mediaMobile phones, You Tube and social media
Arab Spring:Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Bahrain8 December 2010
The Tweets heard round the worldIT consultant Sohaid Athar near bin Laden compound
Pakistan 2 May 2011 (World Press Freedom Day)
Invisible Children awareness campaignYou Tube: 94 million viewsVimeo: 16.6 million views
Africa & U.S. 5 March 2012
The Social Media WarTwitter
Gaza9 March 2012
AFFILIATEDJOURNALISTS
SOURCES
NETIZENS
Followers
Advocates
Bloggers, retweeters
Curated mediaaudience
Partisans
#gaza networked journalism
The personal technocracy
tekhne (skill) kratos
(power)
MAKING EVERY VOICE COUNTMAKING EVERY VOICE COUNTnot just what tech does, but what not just what tech does, but what people dopeople do
CONSILIENCECONSILIENCEthe unity of the unity of knowledgeknowledge
