Topic: Newswork Online (w11)

Group member: Xuanyue He,

Yan Wang

Summary of the readings:1, Marjoribanks, T and Deuze,M2009,

“Newswork”• 1.1 What is “newswork” ?

–The changing contexts of news as professional work.

• 1.2 Rising of “Atypical” newswork (reported by IFJ2006) & challenges

-Labor relationship: temporary, contingent, non-committal, without contractual responsibilities-

-Trend towards outsourcing of free labor to consumers(citizen journalism)

-New situation for journalists in terms of news source issues

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• 1,3 Innovation in news industry

-Approaches, organization and management of the production process.

-Discussion about the survival of various media forms, and forms of newswork. Debate about the future of newspapers.

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• 1.4 Scholarly attention: contemporary of working conditions and labor practice in journalism

-maketplace(for news and news labor

-ideal newsworker

-the embarrassed limitation in current innovation and experiment

-Tensions: Journalists as either individuals or as a collective & suggestion

• 1.5 More suggestions to the analysis of on-line newswork.

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2, Scholz, T 2006, “The participatory challenge”

• 2.1 About participation in online collaborations and potentials of ‘extreme sharing networks’.

- focus on people: behavior and effects.

- the lack of blueprints for participation in social networks and hierarchies of gift exchanges.

• 2.2 Definition and introduction to Collaboration

• 2.3 The social protocols of collaboration, for example:

- develop trust and mutual respect; get everybody involved in the process; keep contribution informed…

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• 2.4 The hierarchies of the internet gift economy

• 2.5 Culture Context Providers

• 2.6 Extreme Sharing Network

• 2.7Organisation and Domination

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPYrbSUqr2k

Traditional media production vs

Mordern media internet News

---- Why The Traditional News Media Is Becoming Less Rel

evant

Discussion

What is the importance of media?

Types of modern media

• Web sites• Webcasting• Mobile Media• Social Networks• Consumer Generated Media-blog podcasts,phot

os

Mordern Media Impacts On Society

• The effect of mass media on society

• How modern media influence our beliefs

• Internet become people's voice

The effect of mass media on society

• The mass media have become such an ordinary, everyday part of society that effeccts on all aspects of society.

How modern media influence our beliefs

• It provides the world with vast knowledge and entertainment.

Internet become people's voice

• A chance to voice people's opinion on particular news, politics and often their personal thoughts.

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2011/10/05/reaction-to-the-death-of-steve-jobs-see-how-the-people-are-paying-tribute-to-jobs-on-twitter-facebook-and-more/

• Reaction to the Death of Steve Jobs: See How People Are Paying Tribute to Jobs on Twitter, Facebook, and More

Conclusion

Questions:• 1, In today’s newswork, Is there any problem may effect on journalists

caused by they have to compete with audiences for chances to tell stories and more rely on newsreels produced by public relations and marketing firms ?

• 2,Based on collaboration, the “Internet Gift Economy”, a “cybercommunism” (Richard Barbrook ,1999), which MIT declared to make an openness of all their resources, is it an incentive or an oppression for creation of knowledge? Shall we remove the political implications(e.g. property/copyright, password protection ) as enclosure in order to benefit the commons.

• 3, How do social networks (like blogs or wikis) draw the users/producers’ needs and successfully empower them to lead fulfilled and engaged lives? What are the fundamental concepts should be considered?