Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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Can a Platform Succeed Without a Popular Service?

28 September, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Adam DuVander:

Twitter and Facebook are often lauded as shining examples of what a platform does for your business. And for good reason. They have very successful developer programs. But they are also extremely popular services on their own. A developer may not build where there is not the foundation of a loyal user base. But even that has exceptions.

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Filed Under: Links Tagged With: apps, developer, socialmedia, socialnetworking, teaching-example, webdesign

Daily Mail runs iPhone 4 recall story based on fake Steve Jobs tweet

28 June, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

The profile of the @ceoSteveJobs account in question even states:

Of course this is a parody account.

Truly awful "journalism", even by the Mail's "standards".

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Filed Under: Links Tagged With: dailymail, fake, iphone, iphone4, stevejobs, teaching-example

Sunday Times ‘correction’ was a giant climbdown

22 June, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Roy Greenslade on The Sunday Times' retraction of article critical of climate research:

I think that sets the gold standard in "corrections". Its publication was brokered by the Press Complaints Commission, and I understand from the PCC that there were good reasons for the four-and-a-half-month gap between the article apparing and the settlement.

But why did it take so long for the paper to admit it had got the whole thing wrong. And why didn't its headline simply say: "Sorry, our reporter screwed up and we got it wrong"? Readers would like that candour and regard it as more credible because it had the guts to own up to its mistake.

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Filed Under: Links Tagged With: climatechange, correction, pcc, retraction, roygreenslade, sundaytimes, teaching-example

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

Inter-Korean crisis: Propaganda fight

28 May, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

BBC News examines propaganda from both sides in recent Korean conflict.

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Filed Under: Links Tagged With: bbcnews, korea, northkorea, propaganda, southkorea, teaching-example

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