Mobilisation by blogs14th edition of Amnesty youth national campus

6th September 2012

Evolution of webWeb 1.0• Learn about

something – Google

• Static information• Writing for

teacher & grade - an audience of one

Web 2.0• Learn about and

from people – Blogosphere

• Construction & sharing knowledge

• Publish to the world• Writhing for all with

feedback & dialog • Social networking

Web 3.0• Exploit the content

of social computing sites, store information

• Machines will do intelligent things – Augmented reality

• Internet of objects• Extending physical

world on the internet

Definition of a blog

Wikipedia: A blog (a portmanteau of the term web log) is a discussion or information site published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete entries posts typically displayed in reverse chronological order so the most recent post appears first.

Transformation of journalism

“In the 20th Century making the news was almost entirely the province of journalists… The economics of publishing and broadcasting created large, arrogant institutions – call it Big Media…

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…” (2004: xiii)

Asian Tsunami 2004

London 7/7 2005

Mumbai 2008

US Airways #1549 2009

Arab spring December 2010 - present

Blogging

“blogging” takes into account the collaborative nature of journalism now: professionals and amateurs working together to get the real story, linking to each other across brands and old boundaries to share facts, questions, answers, ideas, perspectives. It recognizes the complex relationships that will make news. And it focuses on the process more than the product.

– Jeff Jarvis, Journalism professor, blogger & writer

Blogging

The idea that traditional journalism opens itself up to the public. It shares the production process from start to finish. It uses new technologies to include the citizen in every aspect of news-gathering, production and publication. It means using a lot of jargon like crowd-sourcing, social networking, wikis and Twittering. Many of these techniques build on existing journalism methods and are already out there. But it will also require a participatory revolution in the way we make the news. – Charlie Beckett, Director of Polis, at the London School of Economics; writer; former broadcast editor at BBC, ITN & C4

Blogging vs Journalism - Not regulated- No professional

responsability or obligation

- Focus more on quality- More open to discussion

and comments / interactions

- Training ground for journalism

- Regulated- Obligation to verify

sources- Mostly objective- Led by editorial line- Provide raw information- practicing a certain skill-

set with precision

“'blogging activism' would be one example of citizen journalism, but the two are not synonymous.”

Blogs types

• Personal• Corporate & organizational• By genre : political, health, travel,

fashion…• By media types : sketchblogs, photoblogs,

videoblogs…

BlogosphereThe collective community of all blogs interconnected and socially

networked

Blogroll

A list of other blogs that a blogger might recommend by providing links to them (usually in a sidebar list).

Blog search engines

Blogging and advertising

It is common for blogs to feature advertisements either to financially benefit the blogger or to promote the blogger's favorite causes.

MicrobloggingMicroblogging is a broadcast medium in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and aggregate file size. Microblogs "allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links".

The arab spring

Revolutionary wave of protests throughout the MENA region, beginning on 18th Dec 2010 following self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi

Bloggers mobilisation in Morocco

Social media & Blogging

Before therevolution

1. Gaming

2. Social Media

3. Movie Download

4. IM services

5. Search

Post therevolution

1. Use proxies

2. Search

3. News

4. Live streaming

5. News fan pages on FB

6. Twitter