[Media Caucus] What is an isn't journalism these days??

[Tracey Naughton]

Hello Media Caucus List members

Here are some interesting sites, articles and blogs that look at the  
future of news and journalism in the time of new technologies.

Hope to see many of you at prepCom 3 next week.



Tracey Naughton

Chair



IMSC: the US national research center for multimedia
http://imsc.usc.edu/

WHAT IS AND WHAT ISN’T JOURNALISM

Trends from 2005 State of the Media Report just published – items 3  
and 4
http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2005/narrative_overview_eight.asp? 
cat=10&media=1

 From the USC pilot study of the future of news (scroll down to sec  
5, p 110)
http://ascweb.usc.edu/pubs/powellreport1.pdf

Here’s what everyone agrees is journalism: BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/

But what about content from non-journalists
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/18/technology/18cellphone.html

back to BBC: BBC News relied on non-journalists for London bomb coverage
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4660563.stm

CITIZEN JOURNALISM

ABC News (US), others invite non-journalists to cover the news
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/interact/ 
wabc_2005_eyewitnessnewsteam.html

Korea's ohmynews.com has 33,000 registered “citizen journalists”
http://ohmynews.com/
Newsweek: Is Ohmynews really news?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5240584/site/newsweek/

backfence.com and believability
http://www.backfence.com/learnMore.cfm

journalism site offering help to non-journalists
http://www.j-learning.org/

BLOGS, WIKIS, ET AL

Bloggers record Katrina destruction
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1028_3-5844419.html


Future of Journalism / A.  
Powell                                                   p.2

Blogs in the Arab world
http://saudigirl.blogspot.com/
http://bigpharaoh.blogspot.com/
OJR on blogs in the Arab world
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050830glaser/
Soldiers in Iraq start their own blogs
http://uscpublicdiplomacy.com/index.php/newsroom/worldcast_detail/ 
050906_sgt_lizzie_s_army/

Wikis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikinews

OJR on wikis
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050721gupta/

Smart mobs
http://www.trendbuero.de/trendtag/index.php?f_CategoryId=6<=en,   
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050609Ulmanu/

THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM

Automated "robot" journalism
http://www.topix.net/

OJR on robot journalism
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050802glaser/

Experiential journalism:  what IMSC is already doing
http://imsc.usc.edu/research/

Immersipresence – you are there, but is it journalism?
http://imsc.usc.edu/rmi/

Immersipresence and the musicians who aren't really there
http://imsc.usc.edu/news/releases/i2_040929.html

Immersipresence and "walking" through 3D models
http://imsc.usc.edu/research/project/virtcamp/index.html

two-way haptics – you can feel it, but is it journalism?
http://imsc.usc.edu/research/project/haptics/

two-way haptics: already a reality in health care
http://imsc.usc.edu/news/releases/050526_haptics.html





Tracey Naughton
NYAKA
Communication for Development Consultant
201 Somerset Hall
239 Oxford Road
Illovo     2196
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South Africa

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