Session 3: Audience-journalist Collaboration
Comments(0) In this lecture, I tried to give examples of every major type of audience-journalism collaboration that we’ve seen so far. Or at least every major type I could think of.
All of this really stems from asking, what does it mean when anyone can publish? It gives us “citizen journalism,” “networked journalism,” and “user-generated content.” Case studies: user-generated content at the BBC, CNN, and Al Jazeera. Iran elections, Guatemala murders, and Guardian expense-report crowdsourcing. Ushahidi, DavisWiki, Wikileaks, MeetTheFacts, iReport. And probably more…
This lecture took place Tuesday, June 8, at the Journalism and Media Studies Center of the University of Hong Kong.
Readings:
- Drawing out the audience: Inside BBC’s User-Generated Content Hub, Jonathan Stray, Nieman Journalism Lab
- 5 Ways a Community Manager Can Help Your Media Outlet , Roland Legrand, PBS Mediashift
Things to think about:
- The people formerly known as the audience, Jay Rosen, NYU
- Networked Journalism, Jeff Jarvis
- Time for a press award for crowdsourced journalism?, Mercedes Bunz, The Guardian
- Boom! Tweets & Maps Swarm to Pinpoint a Mysterious Explosion, Marshall Kirkpatrick, ReadWriteWeb
Details on things we looked at in class:
- Welcome to Davis, Ca. Six lessons from the world’s best local wiki, Michael Anderson, Nieman Journalism Lab
- ‘Ushahidi’ Technology Saves Lives in Haiti and Chile, Jessica Ramirez, Newsweek
- Block by block part I: Bloggers no more, Michele McLellan, Reynolds Journalism Institute. A study of local news production in the US.
- Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment, Michael Anderson, Nieman Journalism Lab
- Crowdsourced document analysis and MP expenses, Simon Wilson, The Guardian. A discussion of lessons learned from the first MP expenses crowdsourcing system, and the design of the second one.
- Mystery of Tony Blair’s money solved, David Leigh and Ian Griffiths, the Guardian
Homework: Find or invent an example of collaboration between professional and amateur journalists, on a topic of your choice. (Not one we’ve mentioned in class.)