More from course on Twitter and Democracy led by Mark Trahant

1. Twitter Democracy
A changing news media in 140 characters

2. Newschecks
• http://twitter.com/
• @space tweets
• Apple 1.0 or 2.0?

3. Limits of technogy
• Henry David Thoreau -- whose book Walden
was published in 1854 -- wrote: “We are in
great haste to construct a magnetic
telegraphfrom Maine to Texas; but Maine and
Texas it may be, having nothing important to
communicate. ... We are eager to tunnel
under the Atlantic to bring the Old World
some weeks nearer to the New; but
perhcance the first news that will leak
through into the broad, flapping American
ear will be that Princess Adelaide has the
whooping cough.”

4. 3. TV News
TV is a different medium than either print or radio
because of the way people react to stories.
A world with pictures.

5. Emotional pull.
Civil rights on the evening news
The Vietnam War
John Chancellor and the
power of TV news

6. Walter Cronkite
• “Mired in stalemate.”
• Recollection

7. Nonprofit media
• Edward R. Murrow
• Divided ideas about NPR & PBS

8. Tabloid TV
The white Bronco
Death of a princess

9. Talk radio, blogging
• Talk radio.
• Blogging.
• Justin’s Links
• I grouped these together for this reason:
Each of these, essentially, reaches an
audience of agreement.

10. Rise of social media
• Instant ubiquity

11. Attributes
• An early attempt at Social Media
• MySpace
• Facebook & FNN
• YouTube
• Craigslist
• Wikipidia

12. ... and now Twitter
• Breaking news
• Collaboration -- and new ways to do that.
• Searching

13. Discussion
• Social media & time shift
• Social media & immediacy
• Social media & available technology, cell
phones, PDAs, etc.

14. Newscheck (every day)
Twitter Revolution
Part 1 and 2
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