Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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Study says: citizen ‘journalism’ not yet a threat

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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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Twitter relies less on traditional media than blogs

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    Great overview of recent analysis of social media by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

    Among the highlighted findings:

    "Social media and the mainstream press clearly embrace different agendas. Blogs shared the same lead story with traditional media in just 13 of the 49 weeks studied. Twitter was even less likely to share the traditional media agenda — the lead story matched that of the mainstream press in just four weeks of the 29 weeks studied. On YouTube, the top stories overlapped with traditional media eight out of 49 weeks."

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Britons spend more than ‘one day a month online’ – BBC News

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    "British web users are spending 65% more time online than three years ago, according to research of net habits.

    The average surfer spends 22 hours and 15 minutes on the net each month, according to the UK Online Measurement company (UKOM).

    The lion's share of that time is spent on social networks or blogs, which accounts for nearly a quarter of users' time online.

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    Online news has also seen strong growth with 2.8% of online time spent browsing such sites compared to just 1.5% three years ago.

    People spend more time on news sites than they do on adult content, the survey shows.

    TIME SPENT ONLINE

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    Social networks/blogs – 22.7%
    E-mail – 7.2%
    Games – 6.9%
    Instant Messaging – 4.9%
    Classified/Auctions – 4.7%
    Portals – 4%
    Search – 4%
    Software info/products – 3.4%
    News – 2.8%
    Adult – 2.7%
    Source: UKOM"

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TV election debate II: New findings – NPCU Blog

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    "Linguamatics, a leader in enterprise text mining, working in collaboration with the NPCU, announced a new view on the instant reactions made on Twitter about party leaders during the second UK televised election debate. For those who followed the instant polls after the debate last week, these results will be of great interest."

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