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While Julie Posetti wants us to believe in the power of the twitterverse to achieve significance in the way news is reported, I think her comments overlook some aspects of how news is made and she asserts a significance for twitter which seems to gloss over some of the “noisy” aspects of that particular internet [...] The background. ABC presser then Crikey in bed with Smart Company plus New Matilda and of course LP. So what monday! Chris Wallace takes an early break and misses the big media story of the day. Mark at LP dips out on a plumb gig over at Aunty and Crikey gets set for shake-up, meanwhile Media [...] Is this a case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend? When Rupert talked recently about thieves he referred to Google and Microsoft as well as Ask but this seems like a obvious development, one that probably favours Microsoft because they gain more than just the business in search, it also strengthens their [...] The Goanna had a crack at Mark Scott’s poetry which I thought is a trifle unfair. Unfair to poetry that is. Does the goanna, a metaphorical name complete with illusions of tough sun-leathered skin and reptilian cunning, secretly harbour some poetic sympathies? Could it be envy that speaks when the goanna observes - Poetry, of course, [...] Margaret is over-hyping the ABC’s role in innovation and experimentation with the web, a role the ABC claims but cannot truly deliver for the simple reason that the ABC must always strike a balance in favour of protecting its existing audience. Playschool still runs at 3pm, the evening news still comes on the TV @ [...] Mark Scott delivered a blunt assessment on the future landscape for traditional media in his A.N. Smith Memorial lecture at Melbourne University. He acknowledged that all the rules have changed and those media players that survive will be the ones that accept and embrace the challenges posed by the new circumstances. In a speech that portrayed [...] WITN?: Yahoo didn’t sentence 200,000 Iranians to death, and other misadventures in online journalismAmusing blog post on the perils of blogging which I think illustrates a couple of things about the blogsphere. The lack of editorial oversight implicit in the system obviously produces problems now and the speed of propagation is a friend to the headline. Less obvious is the role of “a thousand eyes” in correcting any [...] In the US even as the mainstream media thrashes around in its death throes people are still turning to media production as a means of expressing themselves and seeking to do so in sophisticated and innovative ways. Take a look at News 21. Welcome | News21 | Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education. Hugh White talked about new media from a long term historical perspective, questioning whether “new media” is really a major gamechanger when it comes to prosecuting war. On feature that emerged in Hugh’s short talk that is overlooked in the new media landscape is the role of broadcast mass media and the difference between what’s [...] James Der Derian who delivered a keynote address to the ANU conference War 2.0 raised the issue of the “speed of media transmission” as a key attribute of the new media and reporting on the war, a point emphasised by Kate Geraghty, a photojournalist, in her short presentation. Brigadier Brian Dawson talked about the new form [...] |
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