links for 2010-02-08
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"…a healthy journalism and healthy public discourse — not to mention healthy journalists — are better served by a professional-intellectual framework of honesty, transparency, and expertise (or, in Dan Gillmor’s formulation, thoroughness/accuracy/fairness/transparency) than by one ultimately built on lies and extreme cognitive dissonance."
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Lots of interesting nuggets and ideas here about how publishers can work with Google to drive users to their sites.
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goofy but informative
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"If Apple is the gatekeeper to a device’s uses, the governments of the world need knock on the door of only one office in Cupertino, California – Apple’s headquarters – to demand changes to code or content . Users no longer own or control the apps they run – they merely rent them minute by minute.
Hope lies in more balanced combinations of open and closed systems, such as that embodied by the traditional Apple Mac – or phones based on the Android operating system from the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of hardware, software and telecoms companies. …We should focus on preserving our freedoms, even as the devices we acquire become more attractive and easier to use."
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"…the creed of objectivity becomes a convenient and profitable vehicle to avoid confronting unpleasant truths or angering a power structure on which news organizations depend for access and profits. This creed transforms reporters into neutral observers or voyeurs. It banishes empathy, passion and a quest for justice. Reporters are permitted to watch but not to feel or to speak in their own voices. They function as “professionals” and see themselves as dispassionate and disinterested social scientists. This vaunted lack of bias, enforced by bloodless hierarchies of bureaucrats, is the disease of American journalism."
FDL Book Salon hits issues of transparency, framing and strategy
Last night we spent a few hours talking to passionate, informed media makers and activists over at the Firedoglake Book Salon. Matthew Kerbel, the author of Netroots: Online Progressives and the Transformation of American Politics, served as our host; here’s a snippet of his introductory book review:
Clark and Van Slyke approach technology, journalism and political action as elements of a system, and showcase the way changes in each have facilitated changes in the others. Where a decade ago there was no progressive media strong enough to challenge either mainstream reporting or the right’s well-financed “noise machine,” the middle of the last decade witnessed the evolution of an interconnected media network fostered by emerging technology and the motivational pull of Bush administration policies. Initially, there were big gaps in the network, limiting its reach and effectiveness linking up emerging progressive media portals with established progressive organizations, elected officials, and mainstream media. But, these gaps were filled organically and, in retrospect, quickly, producing a fairly robust progressive infrastructure capable of influencing political outcomes and policy debates.
We talked with Matthew and members of the FDL community about our four network layers, the progressive media strategies we examine, and the pros and cons of developing progressive talking points. Couldn’t join the conversation? Catch it here.
links for 2010-02-02
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Great article on how fundraising models for non-profits need to shift. An interview w/ Rob Schiller, senior vice president for NPR is the focus.
The point of the article is that fundraising/philanthropy for journalism itself is going to have to shift from "transactional" (as noted in the article) to making your case of journalism impact (my spin).
A couple choice quotes:
"But the public radio community, including NPR, has not done a very good job of making what is known in the fundraising business as the case for philanthropy.But going forward, Schiller said, it might sound more like: “How do we use this incredibly powerful news and cultural organization to serve the country more powerfully?”
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Interesting article on how conservatives are using their online and offline networks to organizing and get message out for maximum impact. In many ways, they are utilizing the 4 layers of networks that Jess and I have laid out in the book and illustrated in the visuals (see our slideshow). We believe these 4 layers of networks are the gridwork (i.e. groundwork) for progressive media production (journalism, campaigns, advocacy, etc..) in the future.
The right wing is adding to its top-down, echo chamber behemoth (Fox News, radio domination) by integrating network-powered media production, messaging and organizing into their work. They are also more united by now being the opposition party. Progressive orgs need to start to start internally analyzing how to individually and collectively integrate these network layers, or the conservatives will have set themselves up for another few decades of media domination.
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Interesting examination of media consumption on the #iPad by David Carr
links for 2010-02-01
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What's good for the goose…
"Mr. O’Keefe produced his videos with a partner, Hannah Giles, who posed as a prostitute in them. Although he may be the most public face of this new approach, he is just one of a group of young conservatives who use political pranks and embarrassing recordings to upend what they view as overwhelming liberal biases on college campuses and in the culture at large."
links for 2010-01-31
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"Just the latest example of how once neutral (and once deeply respected) WSJ newsroom now openly leans right in the wake of its Rupert Murdoch purchase. "
Awesome visuals, Book, impact, infrastructure
Bonus visualization: The Cycle of Engagement
Over the past week we’ve been featuring a series of visualizations that examine how media makers can work with various layers of networks to increase their impact. These layers include:
For our last visualization, we’re taking a closer look at how outlets can engage and collaborate with users at every stage of production, from conceptualization to distribution to evaluation.
Continue Reading
links for 2010-01-28
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"Rethink Afghanistan has set up a Ustream embed on its own Facebook page, where it will air the anti-war documentary Cost of War with an introduction by Robert Greenwald at 7:15 p.m. EST tonight. After the one-hour documentary, Greenwald will answer questions leading up to the president’s State of the Union, which will also stream on the Facebook page."
Awesome visuals, Book, impact, infrastructure
Special Release: The last of the four layers of Networks— “Networks of Institutions”
We’re finally here! Today we examine and visualize the last of the four layers of networks taken from our book Beyond The Echo Chamber. In this post, we offer not one, but two visualizations that illustrate how media makers can integrate and interact with the final network layer: Networks of Institutions.
As a quick recap, over the last few posts we have examined and visualized three of the four layers including:
- Networked users: See Monday’s post
- Self-organized networks: See Tuesday’s post
- Institutional Networks: See Wednesday’s post
Networks of Institutions bring together all of the previous layers—users, self-organized groups and institutional networks—to form the most complex and powerful of all the networked layers.
With this layer, we break down the walls preventing journalism and media organizations from working together and with other organizations. In fact, we argue, in this new networked media environment, when faced with increased competition and reduced resources, collaboration and cooperation are key to impact.
Buy the book
- links for 2010-02-08
- FDL Book Salon hits issues of transparency, framing and strategy
- links for 2010-02-06
- Catch Tracy on Grit TV Today: Re. Obama and the Echo Chamber
- links for 2010-02-02
- links for 2010-02-01
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Tapping Networks for Max Impact
- links for 2010-01-31
- Bonus visualization: The Cycle of Engagement
- links for 2010-01-28
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