Soctech Seminar - Spring 2008 - Outline
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Consider this an outline / annotated bibliography / white board for posting resources and organizing ideas.
Contents
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
- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book/index.csp - online e-book of We the Media by Dan Gillmor. About the closest thing you could find to a textbook for this seminar. See the accompanying website at http://wethemedia.oreilly.com/
- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/technology/06sweat.html - Can blogging kill you? NYT story about the intense work cycle of bloggers.
- http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/31/080331fa_fact_alterman - New Yorker article about the life and death of the American newspaper