January 22, 2010 at 14:40Twitter and Facebook Journalism? This is real
I do not think that the meaning of this note will be clear to the reader immediately after reading the title, so I hasten to explain what is the matter. But the thing is this: the largest news agency AFP is going to conduct an interesting experiment - to shut down five journalists on the farm for five days, and ask them to write news reports based only on Twitter and Facebook .
There have already been five volunteers who will be left on their laptops access to Facebook and the microblogging service Twitter. The rest of the Internet will be "cut off", smartphones with phones will also be taken away. According to AFP, journalists will not be able to surf the Net, looking for other news. I don’t know how it will be implemented, but still the agency is quite large, so I think everything will be set up properly.
It is the factor of impossibility to connect to the Network that is interesting for checking the news that will come across to journalists in the above resources. Indeed, for example, even after the earthquake in Haiti on Twitter, there was news about the need for an urgent evacuation, due to the formation of a tsunami. But this news, about the tsunami, was originally "linden."
In general, it will not be easy for journalists, and the result of the experiment is very interesting to me. Someone from the Khabrovsk citizens once wrote that Twitter for the most part is saturated with useless information. It will be interesting to verify this situation, because the purpose of the experiment is to check the quality of news appearing on social media , like social networks.
In general, we are waiting for it to begin, and even more so when it will end.
The original news is available here .
There have already been five volunteers who will be left on their laptops access to Facebook and the microblogging service Twitter. The rest of the Internet will be "cut off", smartphones with phones will also be taken away. According to AFP, journalists will not be able to surf the Net, looking for other news. I don’t know how it will be implemented, but still the agency is quite large, so I think everything will be set up properly.
It is the factor of impossibility to connect to the Network that is interesting for checking the news that will come across to journalists in the above resources. Indeed, for example, even after the earthquake in Haiti on Twitter, there was news about the need for an urgent evacuation, due to the formation of a tsunami. But this news, about the tsunami, was originally "linden."
In general, it will not be easy for journalists, and the result of the experiment is very interesting to me. Someone from the Khabrovsk citizens once wrote that Twitter for the most part is saturated with useless information. It will be interesting to verify this situation, because the purpose of the experiment is to check the quality of news appearing on social media , like social networks.
In general, we are waiting for it to begin, and even more so when it will end.
The original news is available here .