Slides used in a presentation at the Uni. Sunderland. The argument which goes along side this can be found in the International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics Volume 5 Number 3 doi: 10.1386/macp.5.3.231/3

1. panic in the streets of mumbai
twitter, mobile phones and participatory
action
robert.jewitt@sunderland.ac.uk
www.remedialthoughts.com
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2. • “Journalism as it is, is coming to an
end. The boundaries between
journalism and other forms of public
communication … are vanishing,
the internet makes all other types of
newsmedia rather obsolete…”
Deuze, 2007: 141
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3. • “Big media … treated the news as a
lecture. We told you what the news
was…. Tomorrow’s news reporting
and production will be more of a
conversation, or a seminar. The
lines will blur between producers
and consumers…”
Gillmor, 2006: xxiii-xxiv
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4. • Crowdsourcing - the act of taking a
task traditionally performed by an
employee or contractor, and
outsourcing it to an undefined,
generally large group of people or
community in the form of an open
call.
Jeff Howe, 2006; 2008
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November 26th to 29th 2008
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173 people wounded
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307 people injured
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Ajmal Amir Kasabonly surviving
terrorist of the original 10
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Lashkar-e-Taibaconfirmed by
authorities as responsible
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Messages appear chronologically from top
to bottom
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140 characters in length
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Status updates via webpage, mobile
phones, custom applications
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Synchronous mobile updates in Canada,
US and India (and now back on Vodafone
in UK!)
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Traffic
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Growth
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Wossy
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JohnCleese
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schofe
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ChrisDJMoyles
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AlanCarr
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Multiple distributed accounts from
Twitter
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Too much information to process?
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80 messages every 5 seconds
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Image source: GauravMishra, 2008:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gauravonomics/3064583179/
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Info overload
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Democratising
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Trust?
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33. Comcast customer in Jacksonville, FL 32225
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Cautious about crowdsourcing Issues
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Cautious about integration of Web
2.0 tools into mainstream news
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Threat to reliability of journalism
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