Tag Archives: news

News and Facebook’s ‘Like’ Button

One of the most talked about aspects concerning Facebook’s launch of social plugins was how these would affect the content and distribution of news. My aim in this short post is to briefly address the following exploratory question: “What are the matters of concern expressed in the popular debate with respect to the implementation of Facebook’s social plugins on news…

Truthy: Policing Misinformation, One Meme-ing Tweet At a Time

“Swiftboaters beware!”

The battle to control Congress is on and this election year the truth is about to get Truthier. Twitter – the social media network, twenty-four-hour news site, conversation and blogging platform, wedding and death announcement site, gossip patrol, and the general online information center that…

Save trees, read online?

Now a days you can do anything online. You can watch television or video’s online, games, you can play them online. You even can have a conversation online through e-mail or chat programs. A new online trend is e-publishing. Instead of taking ten books with you on vacation, you can buy an e-reader, put a hundred books on the little machine and you doesn’t have to sweat one’s guts out. So you can read books in a digital version, but also articles and news papers.

Twitter: Public Space or Public Sphere?

Internet kills writing? According to Andrea Lunsford, researcher at the Stanford University, it is totally the other way around. There is an immense increase of people starting to write and digital writing is the biggest revolution in writing since the Greek era; bigger than the shift from the oral- to the writing era. Internet improves our writing skills!

New Vision’s Vision Revealed

For the first time since travelled to Uganda for my research, I woke up with a purpose. I was invited to attend the editorial meeting at the New Vision Newspaper to meet all journalists. Editorial meetings take place every day at 8.30am. The meetings are meant to map out activities for the day, deploy journalists and to do…

Metareporter.nl Launched: a First Look…

How, why, where and when do traditional press write about new media and how can we critically look at those articles? This week a great new blog called metareporter has launched, made just to answer those questions. The blog is the result of a project of the 3rd year New Media students of the University of Amsterdam who…