Clinton/Lewinsky Clinton/Lewinsky ScandalScandal
• Important for two reasons:
• Broke and concluded on Internet
• Affected traditional journalism behavior
• Committee of
Concerned
Journalists
study:
““Mixed Media CulturMixed Media Culturee””
• Sources gaining power over journalists
• Decline of gatekeeping function
• The news of the day as it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. - Walter Lippmann, Liberty and the News, 1920
• Reporting culture is being overrun by argument culture
• http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2009/01/12/pn.teacher.accused.rape.cnn
New Producers
Rise of blogs, YouTube, Discussion forums, Social Networking
New forms of creation
New forms of dissemination
Amateurs in the media sphere
new relationships
OhMyNews.com
2000 site launch
"Every Citizen is a Reporter"
http://english.ohmynews.com/index.asp
New models, effects, problems
The Results
The world of content creators and distributors is now more democratic
Audiences, even though fragmented, are better known to those who produce and distribute content
Media literate people are positioned to best decide how to benefit from their potential and limit their peril
Social NetworkingSocial Networking• 47% of Americans (59% of Internet users) belong to
a social networking platform
• average age increased from 33 to 38 in 2011
• half SNS users are over 35
• 58% of SNS users are female
• 92% of SNS users are on Facebook
• 29% use MySpace
• 18% use LinkedIn
• 13% use Twitter