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Tweets and Truth Journalism as a discipline of collaborative verification Alfred Hermida Future of Journalism 2011 Cardiff University, 8 – 9 September

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Tweets and TruthJournalism as a discipline of collaborative verification

Alfred Hermida

Future of Journalism 2011Cardiff University, 8 – 9 September

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Social awareness streams• “They disrupt

established concepts of communication, prevailing notions of space and time and the distinction between public and private spheres.”• Arceneaux and Schmitz

Weiss, 2010

Photo: Tasayu Tasnaphun Legay http://www.flickr.com/photos/tasayu/

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Facts, truth, realityVerification as the essence of journalism (Kovach and Rosenstiel, 2001)

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Networked architectures• “Journalists must find

tools that will enlist a methodology of verification in a more citizen-oriented way.”• Kovach, 2006

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Twitter users as network of news sensorsSakaki et al, 2010

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Emerging practices: “Live updates” pages“The unfolding truth in all its guises,” Herrmann, 2009

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Discussion• “Facts are messy,

difficult to determine and they are often dependent on interpretation.”• Brennen, 2009

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Discussion• Reporter-curators

“will take advantage of novel ‘verification technologies’ that will be increasingly faster and more reliable and advanced.”• Bruno, 2010

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Conclusion• Journalism as a

tentative and iterative process where contested accounts are examined and evaluated in public in real-time on social awareness streams.

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Thank you

[email protected]• @hermida

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