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How We Mediamakes histor y

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[1995]NDN-Rand scenarios for y2010• Society fragments• Internet creates universal community• Communications tech shapes global culture• Media sources and products proliferate• Everyone is a reporter• Mass media declines

[2003] We Media reportEveryday citizens set the agenda for news and information.

The technology of common senseTourist photos and videos

Mobile phones and cameras

Sri Lanka tsunami26 December 2004

The personal reporting deviceMobile phone photography

London tube bombings 7 July 2005

The personal reporting deviceMobile phone photography

London tube bombings 7 July 2005Virginia Tech shooting 16 April 2007

“My friends could be dead”Personal video, Twitter

Documenting the moment and beyondPersonal video, social media (Weibo)

Chengdu, China earthquake 12 May 2008

Humantarian relief ($10m)Internet donations & Text Haiti 90999

Haiti earthquake 12 January 2010

Organizing and communicating the revolutionOrganizing and communicating the revolutionMobile phones, You Tube and social mediaMobile phones, You Tube and social media

Arab Spring:Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Bahrain8 December 2010

The Tweets heard round the worldIT consultant Sohaid Athar near bin Laden compound

Pakistan 2 May 2011 (World Press Freedom Day)

Invisible Children awareness campaignYou Tube: 94 million viewsVimeo: 16.6 million views

Africa & U.S. 5 March 2012

The Social Media WarTwitter

Gaza9 March 2012

AFFILIATEDJOURNALISTS

SOURCES

NETIZENS

Followers

Advocates

Bloggers, retweeters

Curated mediaaudience

Partisans

#gaza networked journalism

The personal technocracy

tekhne (skill) kratos

(power)

MAKING EVERY VOICE COUNTMAKING EVERY VOICE COUNTnot just what tech does, but what not just what tech does, but what people dopeople do

CONSILIENCECONSILIENCEthe unity of the unity of knowledgeknowledge

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