What’s Inside June 2012:
New websites New articles on media trends New journalism reports New reports on social media
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Citizen Relay http://www.citizenrelay.net/ is a crowdsourcing project coordinated by the University of the West of Scotland which is tracking the Olympic torch across Scotland. Citizen reporters and members of the public are being encouraged to record writings and images of local events. The website includes youtube video, tweets and flickr photographs. They are also collecting oral history accounts and aiming to develop educational resources. Digital engagement cookbook http://www.digitalengagement.org/ The site is sponsored by Consumer Focus – a statutory body championing the rights of consumers. It aims to show them how to use social media to become involved in local issues., It has a directory of methods that might be used. The links section showcases other sites which have case studies of successful eparticipation projects
The European Journalism Centre (EJC) has launched http://journajobs.eu/ JournaJobs.eu in order to provide a centralised, international, multilingual, and comprehensive professional journalism jobs listing page that offers permanent positions as well as temporary work, freelance assignments, and journalism internships.
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Crowdsourcing and the CrisisAffected Community: Lessons
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Learned and Looking Forward From Mission 4636 http://robertmunro.com/mission463 6.pdf This article reports on Mission 4636, a real-time humanitarian crowdsourcing initiative that processed 80,000 text messages (SMS) sent from within Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. It was the first time that crowdsourcing (microtasking) had been used for international relief efforts, and is the largest deployment of its kind to date. This article presents analysis of the use of mobile media for aid Yellow social media report: what Australian people and businesses are doing with social media http://apo.org.au/research/Yellowsocial-media-report-whatAustralian-people-and-businessesare-doing-social-media There still remains a sizeable gap between the social media strategies of Australian businesses and the their customers with only 27% of small businesses and 34% of medium-sized businesses having a social media presence Twitter use 2012 http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012 /Twitter-Use-2012.aspx - latest report by the Pew Internet and American life project Older adults and internet use Pew Internet and American Life report http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012 /Older-adults-and-internet-use.aspx
First Monday has just published the June 2012 (volume 17, number 6) issue at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current. Papers included: User-generated online content 1: Overview, current state and context by Pamela J. McKenzie, Jacquelyn Burkell, Lola Wong, Caroline Whippey, Samuel E. Trosow, and Michael McNally JOURNALISM. The Byline Survey Report, 2011: Who Narrates the World? http://theopedproject.wordpress.co m/2012/05/28/the-byline-survey2011/ Interesting annual survey from the Op-ed project.it evaluated are the results of our most recent effort, which evaluated over 7,000 articles in 10 media outlets over a 12 week period from 9/15/11 to 12/7/11. (Mainly USA) comparing who wrote op-eds, what they were about and where they appeared. Interesting facts about ‘new and old media also about male and female news reporting. .
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ ns827/networking_solutions_sub_s olution.html analyzes Internet Protocol (IP) networking growth and trends worldwide. KPCB Internet Trends 2012 http://www.scribd.com/doc/9525908 9/KPCB-Internet-Trends-2012 - paper by venture capital firm analyst Mary Meeker. NEW
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Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information Environment? http://www.oclc.org/research/activiti es/vandr/ Latest report from a JISC funded survey which is considering the theory of the theory of digital residents and visitor in relation to students, researcher’s use of the web for learning. It involved research at University of Oxford, OCLC Research, in partnership with the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Topics covered include: The ways in which sources such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google are used could usefully be taken into account as a valid part of students‘information-seeking approaches. Learning critical thinking that could be applied to any new emerging technology. NEW REPORTS STATISTICS/ DATA ON USAGE. Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2011-2016),
Comscore - US tablet use statistics. http://www.comscore.com/Press_E vents/Press_Releases/2012/6/Majo rity_of_Tablet_Users_Watch_Video _on_their_Device
World Map of social networks July 2012 http://vincos.it/world-map-of-socialnetworks/ according to Alexa & Google Trends for Websites traffic data*.prepared by Vincenzo Cosenza This month find media company information. Try Orbis https://catalogue.lse.ac.uk/Record/1 152106 ORBIS is a global database which has information on approaching 65 million companies. . If you would like more information or individual help in using the library contact Heather Dawson Library h..dawson@lse.ac.uk
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