Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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Marr on bloggers: inadequate, pimpled, single, seedy, abusive ranters

11 October, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Andrew Marr's diatribe at the Cheltenham Literature Festival:

Most citizen journalism strikes me as nothing to do with journalism at all.

A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed, young men sitting in their mother's basements and ranting. They are very angry people.

OK – the country is full of very angry people. Many of us are angry people at times. Some of us are angry and drunk. But the so-called citizen journalism is the spewings and rantings of very drunk people late at night.

It is fantastic at times but it is not going to replace journalism…

Most of the blogging is too angry and too abusive. It is vituperative. Terrible things are said on line because they are anonymous. People say things on line that they wouldn't dream of saying in person.

Ouch! Talk about missing the point… scarily one-sided!

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Filed Under: Links Tagged With: andrewmarr, blogging, citizenjournalism

Colombia landslide filmed by eyewitnesses

28 September, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Citizen journalism footage distributed by Reuters.

[source in Norwegian]

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Filed Under: Links Tagged With: citizenjournalism, colombia, environment, landslide

The Future of Social Media in Journalism

14 September, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Vadim Lavrusik:

all media as we know it today will become social, and feature a social component to one extent or another. […]

But more importantly, these social tools are inspiring readers to become citizen journalists by enabling them to easily publish and share information on a greater scale. The future journalist will be more embedded with the community than ever, and news outlets will build their newsrooms to focus on utilizing the community and enabling its members to be enrolled as correspondents. Bloggers will no longer be just bloggers, but be relied upon as more credible sources.

Excellent overview of:
– Collaborative Reporting
– Journalists as Community Managers
– The Social Beat
– Social Stories
– Online Curation for a “Time-Poor Audience”
– The Social Network as the New Editor
– Beyond Twitter & Facebook
– Monetizing Social
– A Social Newsroom and the Personal Brand
– A Mobile Social Experience

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Filed Under: Links Tagged With: citizenjournalism, civicmedia, future, mashable, onlinejournalism, socialmedia, socialnetworking, teaching, trends, vadimlavrusik

How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit

2 June, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Danny Sullivan:

On Friday, I broke a tasty story about a woman suing Google, claiming bad directions caused her to get hit by a vehicle. Today, I discover our story is everywhere, often with no attribution. Come along and watch how the mainstream media, which often claims bloggers rip it off, does a little stealing of its own.

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Filed Under: Links Tagged With: Bloggers, citizenjournalism, dannysullivan, Google, msm, teaching-example

Study says: citizen ‘journalism’ not yet a threat

29 May, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Missing the point:

The good news for the professional news industry is that the researchers found citizen journalism websites (news and blog sites) are presently not viable substitutes for daily newspaper sites. Only 25 % of the amateur sites published on a daily basis. Even if they do have daily postings, they tended to have significantly fewer news items, which the study attributes to the inherent budgetary constraints of most models of citizen journalism that have surfaced thus far.

Heavy sigh.

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Filed Under: Links Tagged With: citizenjournalism, research

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