What’s Inside April 2011:
New websites New articles on 2011 social media trends New articles on political communication. New articles on BBC
other free resources.
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More on use of social media during the Japan crisis Social media and the Japan crisis RDTN.org http://rdtn.org/ Citizen site monitoring radiation levels in Japan. Interesting example of crowd action. It enables the public to submit readings and also takes data from official sources including the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) This is then visualised on a map. Blogs on the site include discussion of the data and radiation levels. sinsai.info http://www.sinsai.info/ushahidi/ openstreet map site has been set up to be provide free real time situation maps to assist aid workers. The main open street map site http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011 _Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami has information in English about the project. it includes a useful wiki with advice on online mapping and links to
On a different angle there was criticism of Italian media coverage of the disaster for its inaccuracy and sensationalism as a result a facebook site was created for users to discuss and check reports. See Giappone Shinjitu (Japan Truth) http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php ?sk=group_196066483761026&ap=1 founded by Paola Teresa Ghirotti, a photographer specialising in Japanese matters and a member of the Italian Association for Japanese Studies A description in English is available on the European Journalism centre website http://www.ejc.net/magazine/article/jap an_earthquake_shakes_italian_media/ # Indigenous Tweets http://indigenoustweets.com/ ingenious use of twitter by Kevin Scannell, a professor of Computer Science at St. Louis University in the United States. He is recording use of micro blogging by indigenous language speakers. It is intended to allow tweeters to find others speaking the same language. According to the site the most tweeted language is Kreyòl Ayisyen (Haiti) - 6878 users
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petition; just 27.3% (76) had between 1 and 5 petitions open; and 3.7% (10 councils) had between 5 and 15 open petitions. Instructions and assistance offered by websites on using the systems was also found to be poor, with 62.6% (174) scoring 0 or 1 on a scale of 0-3.
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6th Report - The Implications of Cuts to the BBC World Service Foreign Affairs committee report http://www.publications.parliament. uk/pa/cm201011/cmselect/cmfaff/84 9/849vw01.htm The BBC’s management of its Digital Media Initiative http://www.publications.parliament. uk/pa/cm201011/cmselect/cmpubac c/808/80802.htm Public Accounts Committee. HC 808 report
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HTTP://WWW.CONNECTEDKING DOM.CO.UK/THE-REPORT/
from Google and Boston Consulting on UK Internet businesses NEW SURVEYS ON MEDIA
NEW ARTICLES POLITICAL COMMUNICATION Survey reveals confusion over epetitions amongst uk officials. http://www.headstar.com/egblive/?p=8 31 The study, carried out in early March by Brunel University with funding from Fraser Henderson at ParticiTech, found that 279 out of the 353 English local councils do feature some kind of e-petitioning facility on their websites. However, of these, some 69.2% (193) did not yet feature a single open
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Neilsen report of TV viewing and usage trends in 2010.(USA) http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/ consumer/who-watches-what-andhow-much-u-s-tv-trends-byethnicity/# trends by ethnicity. New Digital American Family http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/ online_mobile/report-the-newdigital-american-family/
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Survey of media usage and trends by families. Findings include: High income families view less TV but spend more time viewing with kids, using time-shifted media four times more often than low income households.
To find out more try our subject guide . http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/subject Guides/media%20and%20communic ation.aspx
The benefits of social networking services Cooperative Research Centre for Young People, Technology Australia. http://www.inspire.org.au/wpcontent/uploads/2011/03/FINAL_The_ Benefits_of_Social_Networking_Servic es_Lit_Review.pdf report summarises current evidence concerning the enabling effects of SNS in the context of young people's everyday lives
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