What’s Inside January 2011:
New websites New articles on 2010 social media trends Articles on use of new technology
This includes coverage of surveillance, internet freedoms.
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New Frontier Database http://www.cjr.org/the_news_fron tier_database/ Columbia Journalism review has launched a new database which aims to index and provide information about ‘digital news outlets in the USA’. This seems to include blogs such as the Huffington Post and websites. Each entry has a summary of coverage, plus facts and figures on number of staff/ volunteers, revenue and sources of backing. An ongoing project with more entries being added. Statewatch databases http://database.statewatch.org/se arch.asp Statewatch is an independent, non profit-making organisation founded in 1991. It is now offering free access to its main database with 27,000 articles on civil liberties in Europe dating back 20 years.
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Turning the Page: The Future of eBooks http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/entert ainmentmedia/publications/future-ofebooks.jhtml A really interesting study by Price Waterhouse Cooper. The report surveys the technology, the market. And then gives the results of what consumers want in UK, Germany and USA. The latter is very interesting as it considers what factors would make users buy and use ebooks more.
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Generations online in 2010 http://pewinternet.org/Reports/20 10/Generations-2010.aspx Latest report from the Pew Internet and American Life project. Are there differences in the way different generations go online and what information they use.? How many users have paid for online content? http://www.pewinternet.org/Repo rts/2010/Paying-forContent/Overview.aspx According to the Pew report over 65% of Americans last year. Wikipedia, past and present http://pewinternet.org/Reports/20 11/Wikipedia.aspx Survey of the first 10 years by Pew Internet and American Life. BUPA Health Pulse 2010 http://www.bupa.com/mediacentr e/healthpulse Survey by the LSE looks at the increasing popularity of the internet and social media for health information and self-diagnosis
YouTube : most watched videos on YouTube during 2010. http://youtubeglobal.blogspot.com/2010/12/dou ble-rainbows-annoying-orangesand.html?utm_source=feedburne r&utm_medium=feed&utm_camp aign=Feed%3A+youtube%2FPKJ x+%28YouTube+Blog%29 From the official blog. Hitwise statistics http://www.hitwise.com/us/presscenter/press-releases/facebookwas-the-top-search-term-in-2010for-sec/ on the most visited websites and used search terms in 2010. ARTICLES ON
Journalism in the age of data. http://flowingdata.com/2010/09/2 7/journalism-in-the-age-of-data Visualisation of uses. During his Knight Journalism fellowship at Stanford, Geoff McGhee interviewed visualization trendsetters on how they deal and what they do with data in Journalism in the Age of Data
JOURNAL ARTICLES ON 2010 SOCIAL MEDIA TRENDS
Facebook blog - reports on the top trends during 2010 http://blog.facebook.com/blog.ph p?post=466369142130 Top trends on Twitter in 2010 http://blog.twitter.com/2010/12/hi ndsight2010-top-trends-ontwitter.html
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MEDIA
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CIVIL RIGHTS
Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publ ications/2010/DDoS_Independent _Media_Human_Rights by Ethan Zuckerman, Hal Roberts, Ryan McGrady, Jillian York, and John Palfrey. Berkman Internet report NEW ARTICLES POLITICAL COMMUNICATION Politics goes mobile – http://pewinternet.org/Reports/20 10/MobilePolitics/Report/Overview.aspx Report by the Pew Internet and American Life project on the use of the Internet during the American 2010 election campaigns.
GOVERNMENT MEDIA
POLICY
http://www.culture.gov.uk/news/ ministers_speeches/7726.aspx Oxford Media Convention: Speech by Jeremy Hunt. his is a transcript of the speech by Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport Secretary Jeremy Hunt in Oxford on 19 January 2011. He talks about the start of a thorough review of media and communications that will lead to a new Communications Act and the launch of an action plan for local media.
All the articles listed in this newsletter are free but did you know you can also search for articles using the library’s subscription databases. To find out more try our subject guide . http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/subj ectGuides/media%20and%20com munication.aspx
SCOPUS https://catalogue.lse.ac.uk/Record/1252795 mid 1990s covering all subject areas.
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