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Weblogging: is it journalism? Speaker: Emilis Dambauskas Journalists and the Internet: Who controls who? 2003 October 10-11, Kaunas 1 Definitions journalism: the collection, preparation and distribution of news and re- lated commentary and

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Weblogging: is it journalism?

Speaker: Emilis Dambauskas

Journalists and the Internet: Who controls who?

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Definitions

  • journalism: the collection, preparation and distribution of news and re-

lated commentary and feature materials through such media as pam- phlets, newsletters, newspapers, magazines, radio, motion pictures, tele- vision and books (The New Encyclopaedia Britannica)

  • weblog: a personal website that tracks headlines and articles from
  • ther websites. Weblogs are typically devoted to a specific audience
  • r topic (Wikipedia.org)

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Demographics I

  • 4–10 million blogs online
  • 66% abandoned
  • about 2–3 million active blogs

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Demographics II

  • 2% of online households read blogs at least once a week
  • 79% online users don’t know what a weblog is
  • only 4% of online users relied on blogs for news on iraqi war

Forrester Research, August 2003

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Blog Types I

  • personal (diaries and journals)
  • information weblogs

– political – knoweledge – watchblogs – etc.

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Blog Types II

  • weblogs
  • moblogs
  • audioblogs
  • videoblogs

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Blog Use I

  • political campaigns: 2004 US Presidential elections campaigns

– rally supporters – raise funds

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Blog Use II

  • Non-democracies and war zones

– Iranian bloggers help spread news that are dangerous to publish – Blogs from Iraq

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Traits in blogging

  • – costless publishing

– instantaneity – interactivity – personal – opinion, not objectivity – unmediated – raise issues forgotten by media

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Questions

  • are blogs journalism? can they be called "amateur journalism"?
  • can blogs be trusted? is information found in blogs credible? what about

the ethics of bloggers?

  • Dan Gilmor: "journalism changes from lecture to conversation/seminar".

Is that really so? How weblogs are changing the big media?

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