Social Media Improves our Understanding of Major World Events – Resource Links:
GENERAL
‘Boston and the new media: far from madding crowd’ Guardian 23 April 2013:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/23/boston-new-media-crowd-editorial
‘When Everyone’s a Journalist’ Carl Sessions Stepp American Journalism Review December 2005:
http://ajrarchive.org/Article.asp?id=3803
‘A Twitter Revolution for Journalists’ Joel Simon Huffington Post 14 February 2012:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joel-simon/a-twitter-revolution-for-_b_823113.html
‘What Facebook and Twitter Mean for News’ Amy Mitchell & Tom Rosenstiel of PEJ, and Leah
Christian of the Pew Research Center: http://stateofthemedia.org/2012/mobile-devices-and-newsconsumption-some-good-signs-for-journalism/what-facebook-and-twitter-mean-for-news/
‘Arab spring leads surge in events captured on cameraphones’ Guardian 23 December 2011:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/29/arab-spring-captured-on-cameraphones
Video from Storyful founder Mark Little’s bio page discussing social media and journalism:
https://storyful.com/stories/9394
FOR
‘Don’t blame the internet for false rumours about Boston - it’s the enemy of falsehoods’ Roy
Greenslade Evening Standard 24 April 2013: http://www.standard.co.uk/business/media/roygreenslade-dont-blame-the-internet-for-false-rumours-about-boston--its-the-enemy-of-falsehoods8585856.html
‘The Phone Is Mightier Than the Sword’ Sahar el-Nadi European 26 January 2013:
http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/sahar-el-nadi--2/959-old-media-and-the-arab-spring
‘Taking power through technology in the Arab Spring’ Ramesh Srinivasan Al Jazeera 26 October
2012: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/09/2012919115344299848.html
‘The rise of citizen photojournalism’ Dan Gillmoor Al Jazeera 15 March 2011:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/03/2011314134026456445.html
‘Blogger's Revolution - Taking Control with Digital Media’ Laurie Penny New Statesman 22 June
2010: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2010/06/media-bloggers-8221-paid-8220
Skoler, Michael. “Why the News Media Became Irrelevant--And How Social Media Can Help.”
Editorial. Nieman Reports. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Fall 2009. Web. 21 Oct.
2009: http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=101897
‘Citizen Journalism Paves the Way in Egypt’ Pulitzer Centre 16 November 2011:
http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/egypt-journalism-citizen-blogging-press-freedom-government
AGAINST
‘Social media as confusing as helpful in crisis situations’ Alex Dingman Topeka-Capital Journal 22
April 2013: http://cjonline.com/news/2013-04-22/social-media-confusing-helpful-crisis-situations
‘Twitter Devolutions’ Marc Lynch Foreign Policy 7 February 2013:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/02/07/twitter_devolutions_arab_spring_social_media?
page=0,0#sthash.45jNbp8C.dpbs
‘What are we losing in the Web’s images of suffering and schadenfreude?’ Philip Kennicott
Washington Post 27 December 2012: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/what-arewe-losing-in-the-webs-images-of-suffering-and-schadenfreude/2012/12/27/6e61aa20-4df2-11e2950a-7863a013264b_story.html
‘Why is Blogging Bad for Journalism?’ Whose News? 16 January 2010:
http://rzawodni.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/why-is-blogging-bad-for-journalism/
‘Newspapers vs. Bloggers: The New News Process’ Jeff Jarvis Seeking Alpha 8 June 2009:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/141872-newspapers-vs-bloggers-the-new-news-process
‘England riots: Dangers behind false rumours’ BBC News 20 September 2011:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14490693
‘Social Media’s Rush to Judgment in the Boston Bombings’ Steve Henn National Public Radio 23 April
2013: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/04/23/178556269/Social-Medias-Rush-ToJudgment-In-The-Boston-Bombings
‘Syria Gay Girl in Damascus blog a hoax by US man’ BBC News 13 June 2011:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13744980