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Talk at MIT8, May 3, 2013: Social media platforms have evolved from spaces for personal exchanges to environments for real-time news and information, influencing how media organisations respond to breaking news, how journalists go about their reporting and whose voices are heard. The media logic of emerging communications technologies, where knowledge, expertise and authority are networked and distributed, chafe with existing, hierarchical models of journalism. This presentation will discuss how social media are reconfiguring definitions of journalism and professional constructs of the journalist, as media professionals negotiate a hybrid news ecosystem that blurs the line between the public, the private and the corporate.
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#journalism: Reconfiguring journalism, one tweet at a time Alfred HermidaUniversity of British Columbia @hermida
Journalists and Twitter: It’s complicatedPhoto: the half-blood prince - http://www.flickr.com/photos/unconstructive_bry/
The newsroomPhoto: Bill Walsh - http://www.flickr.com/photos/bwalsh/
Ambient journalismPhoto: Stefano Arteconi - http://www.flickr.com/photos/sterte/
Journalist: From public professional to public individual
Journalism as a tentative and iterative process where contested accounts are examined & evaluated in public in real-time
Photo: Cathy Arkie - http://www.flickr.com/photos/shepaused4thought/
Andy Carvin: News hub on TwitterArtwork: ssoosay - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssoosay/
Networked news, networked powerPhoto: Matthijs - http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthijs/
Thank [email protected] @hermida
• WORKS• Hermida, Alfred, Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith. (forthcoming).
Sourcing the Arab Spring: A case study of Andy Carvin’s sources on Twitter during the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communications
• Hermida, Alfred. (in press). Twitter as an ambient news network, in Bruns, K. Weller, J. Burgess, M. Mahrt & C. Puschmann (eds.), Twitter and Society. New York, NY: Peter Lang
• Hermida, Alfred (submitted). #journalism: Reconfiguring journalism research on Twitter, one tweet at a time, Digital Journalism
