Difference between revisions of "Soctech Seminar - Spring 2008 - Outline"

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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

• 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

• http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/teaching/cmc/cmc.html
• http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/teaching/newmedia/newmedia.html
• http://com546.wordpress.com/readings/