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Consider this an outline / annotated bibliography / white board for posting resources and organizing ideas.
 
Consider this an outline / annotated bibliography / white board for posting resources and organizing ideas.
  
What is journalism?
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== What is journalism? ==
  Is it scope of access?
 
  Audience?
 
  
Who hands out press-credentials?
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* Journalistic standards?
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* Who hands out press-credentials?
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* Objectivity?
  
Legal vs social contracts
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== What is a blog? ==
  
Blogs: linking to competition, corrections
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* Possible unique elements of blogs:
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** Links to competition
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** Quicker / community process for corrections
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** Depth and breadth of coverage
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** Scope of access?
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** Audience?
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* Types of blogs
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* Roles of blogs
  
Journalistic standards
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== Publishers vs Authors ==
  
Publishers versus authors
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* Applicable rights and obligations
  Applicable rights and obligations
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* Safe Harbor clauses
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* Who owns content?
  
Aggregators
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== Legal questions ==
Safe Harbor clauses
 
  
Legal questions:
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* What laws exist?
  What laws exist? Who do they apply to?
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* Who do they apply to?
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* Legal vs social contracts
  
Types of blogs:
 
Roles of blogs:
 
Astroturfing
 
  
Corporate Blogging
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== Corporate Blogging ==
Can your employer regulate your speech?  Your personal blog?
 
  
Objectivity?
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* Can your employer regulate your speech? Your personal blog?
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* Astroturfing
  
Increased coverage?  Implications...
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== Business Models ==
  
Death of old media
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* How to make money from blogs
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* Death of old media
  
Making money
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== International Perspectives ==
  
International blogs
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* International blogs
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* Global perspectives
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* "Global freedom of the press"?
  
Global perspectives
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== Trust ==
  
"Global freedom of the press"
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* How can you trust a blog?
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* How to reference a blog?
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* What roles can the following play:
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** Peer review?
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** Editors?
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** Editorial board?
  
What is a blog?
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== Resources ==
 
 
Who owns content?
 
 
 
How to reference a blog?
 
 
 
How to trust a blog?
 
 
 
Peer review?
 
 
 
Editors?  Editorial board?
 
 
 
Where does trust come from?
 
  
 
* http://wethemedia.oreilly.com/
 
* http://wethemedia.oreilly.com/

Revision as of 06:40, 8 April 2008

Consider this an outline / annotated bibliography / white board for posting resources and organizing ideas.

What is journalism?

  • Journalistic standards?
  • Who hands out press-credentials?
  • Objectivity?

What is a blog?

  • Possible unique elements of blogs:
    • Links to competition
    • Quicker / community process for corrections
    • Depth and breadth of coverage
    • Scope of access?
    • Audience?
  • Types of blogs
  • Roles of blogs

Publishers vs Authors

  • Applicable rights and obligations
  • Safe Harbor clauses
  • Who owns content?

Legal questions

  • What laws exist?
  • Who do they apply to?
  • Legal vs social contracts


Corporate Blogging

  • Can your employer regulate your speech? Your personal blog?
  • Astroturfing

Business Models

  • How to make money from blogs
  • Death of old media

International Perspectives

  • International blogs
  • Global perspectives
  • "Global freedom of the press"?

Trust

  • How can you trust a blog?
  • How to reference a blog?
  • What roles can the following play:
    • Peer review?
    • Editors?
    • Editorial board?

Resources