twitter + journalism

13 March 2010

A 90-second Documentary

What Is Twitter?

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What Is Journalism?

Journalism Is…•Fair

•Accurate

•Relevant

•“Objective”?

•Transparent?

•“New”?

•“Professional”?

Social Media Journalism

•Digital delivery

•Informed

•Opinionated

•Many “journalists”

•“Publish Then Filter”

Twitter As News Source

•Plane In The Hudson

•Iran Elections

•Haiti Earthquake

•Chile Earthquake/Tsunami

•Michael Jackson’s death

A New Genre•D versus @ versus RT

•Follow versus Friend

•Favorites

•#hashtags

•Lists

•Broadcast versus Converse

•Nibble v Full Course

•TinyUrl et al

Environmental Monitoring

Research

Getting Started

•Web Browser

•Tweetdeck

•Cellphone (of course)

How to Follow

•Based on use

•Thought Leaders

•Wire Feeds

•Friends

•Interesting people

More Tools

•TwitPic

•SocialToo

•Ping.FM

•TweetStats

Twitter Is Social.

Have fun!

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commercialKathy E. Gill

• http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill or @kegill, @kegill_uw

• http://wiredpen.com/ and http://slideshare.net/kegill

Images: • Twitter.com logo

• Toolbox, http://www.autotoys.com/x/product.php?productid=7087

• Megaphone, http://warkscol.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/superchick_megaphone_logo_hi.jpg