Lecture slides for Polis LSE Summer School on Networked Journalism

1. Networked news
IR245
2016
Charlie Beckett

2. Journalism Has History
• Technological
• Social
• Economic
• Political
• Cultural

3. Media Change Has Effects
• Religion
• Science
• Politics
• Art

4. Journalists now have more power
1993 v 2016

5. More powerful connectivity

6. More powerful narratives

7. Old to New Media
• Crude technology – Infinite technology
• Top down – consumer led
• Deadlines – 24/7 stream
• Disposable - Sticky
• Barriers to entry – easy access
• Unreactive - Interactive
• Expensive - Cheap
• Single platform liner – Multi Platform
• Scarcity - abundance
• Profitable – Free
• Physically constrained – global
• Static - mobile

8. Structural change:
Mixed media – but all networked
• Traditional
‘legacy’media
• Social news
media
• Social networks

9. Networked Journalism
• Combination of citizen and professional
• Public participation possible throughout
• Interactive
• Connected
• Service not manufacturing
• Process not product

10. How do we measure the change?
• Trust – morality?
• Temporality – speed – depth?
• Geography – transnational – local?
• Sensitivity – reflective – diverse?
• Public service – public value?
• Democracy – participation – engagement?
• Business model – sustainable, profitable?

11. Core functions of traditional and
networked journalism
• Informing - reporting the facts
• Deliberation – a forum for debate
(analysis and comment)
• Witnessing – ethical act implying
agency

12. Informing - events

13. Informing - data

14. Data - gamification

15. Networked deliberation

16. Networked Witnessing

17. Professional Networked Journalism

18. Powerful Platforms

19. Emotions & personalisation

20. Redefine ‘Journalist’
• Curator
• Partner
• Social networker
• Specialist

21. Redefine ‘News’
• (Open) Data and content not
stories or packages
• Transient ‘liquid’ reality
• Relationship not authority
• Contested not a given

22. Networked Effects?
• Conquers temporality
• Crosses borders
• Increases editorial diversity
• Deeper story-telling
• Democratised data and narratives

23. Networked Negatives?
• Verification/authority
• Disproportion
• Fragmentation
• Literacy/access
• Attention-seeking/distraction

24. Networked Journalism
IR245
2016
Charlie Beckett
Polis, LSE
@CharlieBeckett
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/?s=networked+journalism