Rewiring journalism:
The new literacies of networked communication architecturesAlfred Hermida, University of British Columbia @hermida
ICA London, June 20 2013
Journalists and Twitter: It’s complicated
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From modern, industrial literacies towards post-industrial, knowledge society literacies
Lankshear and Knobel, 2011Photo: phub - http://www.flickr.com/photos/phub/
Journalism: Uniform, monolithic, enclosed, stable, linear
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Twitter: Distributed, open, collaborative, dynamic, non-linear
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The finished productPhoto: albyantoniazzi - http://www.flickr.com/photos/smoy/
Journalism as a tentative and iterative process where contested accounts are examined & evaluated in public in real-time
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Andy Carvin: Twitter as newsroom
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Networked news, networked powerPhoto: Matthijs - http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthijs/
Thank [email protected] @hermida
• WORKS• Hermida, Alfred, Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith. (forthcoming).
Sourcing the Arab Spring: A case study of Andy Carvin’s sources on Twitter during the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communications
• Hermida, Alfred. (in press). Twitter as an ambient news network, in Bruns, K. Weller, J. Burgess, M. Mahrt & C. Puschmann (eds.), Twitter and Society. New York, NY: Peter Lang
• Hermida, Alfred (forthcoming). #journalism: Reconfiguring journalism research about Twitter, one tweet at a time, Digital Journalism
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