Talk at MIT8, May 3, 2013: Social media platforms have evolved from spaces for personal exchanges to environments for real-time news and information, influencing how media organisations respond to breaking news, how journalists go about their reporting and whose voices are heard. The media logic of emerging communications technologies, where knowledge, expertise and authority are networked and distributed, chafe with existing, hierarchical models of journalism. This presentation will discuss how social media are reconfiguring definitions of journalism and professional constructs of the journalist, as media professionals negotiate a hybrid news ecosystem that blurs the line between the public, the private and the corporate.

1. #journalism:
Reconfiguring journalism,
one tweet at a time
Alfred Hermida
University of British Columbia
@hermida

2. Journalistsand Twitter:It’s complicated
Photo: the half-blood prince - http://www.flickr.com/photos/unconstructive_bry/

3. The newsroom
Photo: Bill Walsh - http://www.flickr.com/photos/bwalsh/

4. Ambientjournalism
Photo: Stefano Arteconi - http://www.flickr.com/photos/sterte/

5. Journalist:Frompublicprofessionaltopublicindividual

6. Journalismasatentativeanditerativeprocesswherecontested
accountsareexamined&evaluatedinpublicinreal-time
Photo: Cathy Arkie - http://www.flickr.com/photos/shepaused4thought/

7. Andy Carvin: News hub on Twitter
Artwork: ssoosay - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssoosay/

8. Networkednews,networkedpower
Photo: Matthijs - http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthijs/

9. Thankyou
alfred.hermida@ubc.ca @hermida
• WORKS
• Hermida, Alfred, Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith. (forthcoming).
Sourcing the Arab Spring: A case study of Andy Carvin’s sources
on Twitter during the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions.
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communications
• Hermida, Alfred. (in press). Twitter as an ambient news
network, in Bruns, K. Weller, J. Burgess, M. Mahrt & C.
Puschmann (eds.), Twitter and Society. New York, NY: Peter
Lang
• Hermida, Alfred (submitted). #journalism: Reconfiguring
journalism research on Twitter, one tweet at a time, Digital
Journalism