Soctech Seminar - Spring 2008 - Outline
Consider this an outline / annotated bibliography / white board for posting resources and organizing ideas.
What is journalism?
Is it scope of access? Audience?
Who hands out press-credentials?
Legal vs social contracts
Blogs: linking to competition, corrections
Journalistic standards
Publishers versus authors
Applicable rights and obligations
Aggregators Safe Harbor clauses
Legal questions:
What laws exist? Who do they apply to?
Types of blogs: Roles of blogs: Astroturfing
Corporate Blogging Can your employer regulate your speech? Your personal blog?
Objectivity?
Increased coverage? Implications...
Death of old media
Making money
International blogs
Global perspectives
"Global freedom of the press"
What is a blog?
Who owns content?
How to reference a blog?
How to trust a blog?
Peer review?
Editors? Editorial board?
Where does trust come from?
