Here is the workspace where you can organize your plan for this activity
Posted at Jan 25/2006 11:48AM:
Howard Rheingold: Please use these comments and the workspace above to plan a project to do in class that involves:
- Breaking up into teams of 3-4 students.
- Finding something out on the web during class.
- Organizing the findings on the wiki during class and presenting them.
- An appropriate connection to that week's readings.
Posted at Jan 26/2006 04:18PM:
Debby Chang: Suggestion for Tuesday's class on the speed of news production and the use of networks:
1. groups pick a specific news topic (current event like a recent bombing, the Bush/NSA debate, Google being sued, etc)
2. look at 2-3 different news providers online and analyze how they approach the content
3. compare and contrast: Are more community-based news sites providing more content/commentary/povs? Are they reporting anything faster than mainstream gatekeeper sites?
Posted at Jan 26/2006 08:47PM:
Howard Rheingold: I like that idea! Any other ideas?
Posted at Jan 30/2006 04:56PM:
Howard Rheingold: Community-based news sites:
Posted at Jan 31/2006 03:25PM:
Emily Harris: How is Guardian Unlimited a "community based" news site? The bloggers are all Guardian employees. Maybe I'm not clear on what community based means.
Posted at Jan 31/2006 04:51PM:
Emily Harris:
Here are the questions that led to the incorrect idea that most young people got most of their election news from Jon Stewart's The Daily Show last election cycle.
http://people-press.org/reports/print.php3?PageID=776
The questions make take a pro to help understand - the Pew's summary of the results are linked from the top of the questions page.
Posted at Feb 01/2006 10:46AM:
Howard Rheingold: Thanks, Emily. I grabbed a bunch of links. You caught the anomaly. That's the advantage of wiki-based work. Prior to our doing this exercise, it would be helpful to add links to community-based sites. Who has other links?
Emily Harris: Hey, that's part of what journalists are supposed to do! The trend seems real, even though the details of that poll don't show the exciting idea that Jon Stewart is young people's main source of news yet.
Emily Harris:
QUESTIONS for JD Lasica
*How much $ do you make off your sponsored links from webpage, blogs, etc.
*What do you think of "crowd" fact checking?
*Along those lines: Much is made about the idea that news consumers do/will improve the news product by commenting, adding their own information, etc. We've seen news stories found to be untrue when checked out by "the bloggers." Do you think there is any risk that this group of people - who have time and interest to comment, research, etc. - will affect/drive coverage disporportionately? ie: they will seem or be represented as representing almost the "vox populi" although it's unclear how much of a diverse group they really are (on any given subject, as the community would presumably change somewhat depending on what's being discussed/researched.
Questions for Craig Newmark
There's been a lot of talk about your involvement in some new approaches to aggregating news. But what about the content you're aggregating? Take international news for example. It's expensive and so it's been consistently cut in order to save money. Isn't there a danger that you'll turn round one day and find the only sources of world news are a couple of wire services and not-for-profits?
I blogged this, but I thought I'd mention it here, too:
The Computer History Museum is having an event on Valentine's Day that would be of interest to the class. (Alas, I cannot go, but perhaps some of you can!) Check it out at: http://www.computerhistory.org/events/index.php?id=1136391864
Posted at Feb 09/2006 01:49PM:
yingshi: is there a way to read the most recent post up on the top of this wiki webpage, rather than scroll down to the bottom?
Posted at Feb 09/2006 02:50PM:
Eric Ford: Potential question for an upcoming paper or whatnot:
Pick a potential idea, concept, or design that would aid in bridging the "digital divide" between bloggers and traditional press. What could be done specifically (in your opinion) that could bridge the gap between these media? In addition to describing your ideal, what could be some difficulties in executing it? Finally, what would be the primary benefits and disadvantages for launching this idea?
Posted at Feb 09/2006 04:32PM:
Francesca Wodtke: QUESTION: yingshi: is there a way to read the most recent post up on the top of this wiki webpage, rather than scroll down to the bottom? ANSWER: I see that there's a check box next to the text box where you post your comments. The check box is labelled "Top" -- I am going to try checking it. If it does what I think it does, this post should appear at the "Top" of the page. Let's see...Hmmm, the box won't check. Perhaps Mr. Rheingold has the answer?
Posted at Feb 10/2006 05:53PM:
Francesca Wodtke: Hear ye; hear ye! There is no entry on Wikipedia for "long tail media." Despite our extensive class discussions of the subject, I nevertheless remain slightly flummoxed by what "long tail media" actually is. If someone wants to add "long tail media" to Wikipedia.org, I'd promise to read their entry.
Posted at Feb 11/2006 09:29AM:
Howard Rheingold: Great find about long tail, Francesca. I will ask the metamedia lab, who provided the wki, about putting recent posts at the top of the page. And that's a pretty decent suggestion, Eric. I shall add it to the list of questions!
Posted at Feb 16/2006 03:39PM:
Debby Chang: Consensus on issues (on-and-off-line) may be too lofty a goal for people to strive for, but there is unquestionable value in the encouragement of deliberative discussion. Question for class today: How does one foster the conditions for informative, educated and useful deliberation in the scattered, many-to-many online world?
Posted at Feb 16/2006 03:52PM:
Debby Chang: From the Pew Internet & American Life Project (based on 2005 numbers), 72% of Americans use the internet. Of those users, everyday:
72% get news
27% read a blog
22% chat in a chatroom or online discussion
19% create content for the internet
9% create a blog
Posted at Feb 16/2006 03:55PM:
Emily Harris: Does that say anything about where they have access or broadband? Or breakdown of usage by income - and more interestingly any change in that over time?
Posted at Feb 16/2006 04:02PM:
Emily Harris: in answer to my own question - here's one reference - on a tangent but interesting:
http://www.editlib.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Reader.ViewAbstract&paper_id=5876
Posted at Feb 16/2006 04:03PM:
Emily Harris: One more:
http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/February06/Findings/findings_ra2.htm
Posted at Feb 16/2006 04:09PM:
Maria Martin: The way I read the poll, it was done of only interternet USERS, not people in general...am i wrong?
Posted at Feb 16/2006 04:14PM:
Emily Harris: Lots of hats. . . but indeed, not cowboy - at least not on page 1:
http://images.google.com/images?q=howard+rheingold&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
Posted at Feb 16/2006 04:17PM:
Emily Harris: maybe this is the one that confused the australian:
http://www.cscout.com/blog/data/howardrheingold.jpg
apologies if this is breaking the rules on triteness.
Posted at Feb 16/2006 04:19PM:
Maria Martin: Here is a link to a GAO study on internet usage:
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01345.pdf
Posted at Feb 17/2006 04:14PM:
Howard Rheingold:Should we create a discussion page like this for each class session?
Posted at Feb 20/2006 09:01PM:
Emily Harris: re: above question - it is useful, particularly as a place to post answers to questions that come up in discussion searchable on the web. Hard to do this and pay close attention to discussion of course. At least for me!
Posted at Feb 24/2006 12:27AM:
Janet Rae-Dupree: Yes, I'd like to see a discussion page for each class session. I'm also concerned that it might interrupt the flow of ideas, but perhaps we could experiment and find a balance?
Posted at Feb 25/2006 12:52PM:
Howard Rheingold: We could comment like this on this page next class, and project it on the screen. Someone could volunteer to refresh the page on the screen from time to time.
Posted at Feb 26/2006 11:00AM:
Andy Seronick: Hello, I am a journalism student at Emerson College in Boston, Ma. I have been following the class lectures and have been keeping up with what is going on. I have been using this class for research that i am doing in a class here at emerson on Wartime Journalism. I am writing an essay on how journalists and citizens use the internet during wartime. Mainly i am interested in warblogs (and political blogs) vs. mainstream news media in the wake of the war on terror. If anyone has any thoughts i would love to hear what you guys think-- but only if you have a moment. I know you stanford types are always busy :P
(please not i apologize if this post was mad ein the wrong bulletin board, but it seemed to be updated the most recently, so that's my justification for posting here.)
Posted at Mar 01/2006 08:27AM:
Howard Rheingold: This is an acceptable place to post, Andy, but I'm not sure whether any of our students have been following warblogging.
Posted at Mar 01/2006 02:05PM:
Hubert Huang: I found this article which discusses, in addition to several other things, the agenda setting abilities of web "journalists". It makes for an interesting and thought provoking read.
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/papers/harper.html
Posted at Mar 06/2006 05:35PM:
Howard Rheingold: Good find, Hubert. I know that I've seen that before and wonder whether I've added it to thhis wiki somewhere but forgot where I put it. Can you identify where in the syllabus that article would be most valuable? If so, simply add it to the proper place on the Schedule/Syllabus under "Web Resources"
Maria Martin : Thinking (soberly) about what Lessing had to say regarding network neutrality, the FCC, and the apathetic public. But what, I wonder, about the lively world of digital journalism, citizen journalists, indymedia folks, smartmobs, and bloggsters? Isn't there a way to mobilize this energy to build cyberawareness about the virtual kidnapping/corporate takeover of the internet now in the works?
Posted at Mar 10/2006 04:19PM:
Howard Rheingold: A few of us have been blogging like crazy about this.
