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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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** [http://ncsl.typepad.com/the_thicket/2007/10/more-on-blogger.html Media credentials for covering the Ohio State Legislature]
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** [http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2008/03/03/ohio-guidelines-for-poll-access-by-accredited-media-v-internet-writers/ Media access to polling places in Ohio]
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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:
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== Corporate Blogging ==
Roles of blogs:
 
Astroturfing
 
  
Corporate Blogging
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* Can your employer regulate your speech?  Your personal blog?
Can your employer regulate your speech?  Your personal blog?
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* Astroturfing
  
Objectivity?
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== Business Models ==
  
Increased coverage?  Implications...
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* How to make money from blogs
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* Death of old media
  
Death of old media
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== International Perspectives ==
  
Making money
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* International blogs
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* Global perspectives
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* "Global freedom of the press"?
  
International blogs
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== Trust ==
  
Global perspectives
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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?
  
"Global freedom of the press"
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== Resources ==
  
What is a blog?
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Books
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* http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book/index.csp - online e-book of <i>We the Media</i> 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/
  
Who owns content?
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Articles
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* http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/technology/06sweat.html - Can blogging kill you? NYT story about the intense work cycle of bloggers.
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* http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/31/080331fa_fact_alterman - New Yorker article about the life and death of the American newspaper
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* http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/31/060731fa_fact - New Yorker article about Wikipedia: "Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?"
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* http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080403-online-peer-review-supplements-doesnt-replace-real-thing.html - Ars Technica piece about online peer review
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* http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/us/politics/14web-seelye.html - What's a blogger? NY Times article about the blogger who wrote the piece on Obama's comments about small-town voters
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* http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp - Code of Ethics for the Society of Professional Journalists
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* Sports and Blogging
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** http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/online/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003724985 - Society of Professional Journalists watching out for bloggers banned from NBA locker-room
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** http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/business/media/21bloggers.html Good general NYT pieces about sports and bloggers
  
How to reference a blog?
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* http://www.princeton.edu/~csdp/events/pdfs/HindmanCM.pdf - Matthew Hindman - Political Accountability and the Web’s “Missing Middle”:
  
How to trust a blog?
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<blockquote>
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"Hindman’s research also establishes a stronger pedigree in terms of elite education and advanced post- graduate degrees for the top bloggers than for the country’s leading op-ed columnists. And the top news Web sites have 30 times the traffic of the top political and public affairs Web sites."
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</blockquote>
  
Peer review?
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From [http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.com/2008/footnotes/narrative_overview_intro.html footnotes] of [http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.com/2008/narrative_overview_intro.php?cat=0&media=1 State of the News Media 2008]
  
Editors?  Editorial board?
 
  
Where does trust come from?
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What makes you a journalist? On the subject of Josh Wolf:
  
* http://wethemedia.oreilly.com/
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* http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/09/BAGOFOI8QL1.DTL - Mediator fails to free imprisoned blogger
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* http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2007/03/09/josh-wolf-journalist-no_e_42991.html - Josh Wolf: Journalist? Not A Journalist? Does It Matter?
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* http://www.spj.org/joshwolf.asp - SPJ: Freeing Josh Wolf
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UW
 
* http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/teaching/cmc/cmc.html
 
* http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/teaching/cmc/cmc.html
 
* http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/teaching/newmedia/newmedia.html
 
* http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/teaching/newmedia/newmedia.html
 
* http://com546.wordpress.com/readings/
 
* http://com546.wordpress.com/readings/
 
* http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/technology/06sweat.html
 
* http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/31/080331fa_fact_alterman
 

Latest revision as of 14:55, 21 April 2008

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

What is journalism?

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

Books

Articles

"Hindman’s research also establishes a stronger pedigree in terms of elite education and advanced post- graduate degrees for the top bloggers than for the country’s leading op-ed columnists. And the top news Web sites have 30 times the traffic of the top political and public affairs Web sites."

From footnotes of State of the News Media 2008


What makes you a journalist? On the subject of Josh Wolf:

UW