Comments on: The Twitter effect: We are all members of the media now

By: leila semail

leila semail — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:23:00 +0000

The Twitter effect: We are all members of the media now http://t.co/DAVHkVaa

By: Christopher T. Neal

Christopher T. Neal — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:43:52 +0000

RT @GOSocialBuzz: Reading “The Twitter effect: We are all members of the media now” http://t.co/XzZblAqK

By: Christopher T. Neal

Christopher T. Neal — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:42:48 +0000

Reading “The Twitter effect: We are all members of the media now” http://t.co/XzZblAqK

By: Steph Niox-Chateau

Steph Niox-Chateau — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:19:40 +0000

RT @chrism: The Twitter effect : We are all members of the media now : http://t.co/LL9nFiE9

By: Chris Membrey-Bezier

Chris Membrey-Bezier — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:39:29 +0000

The Twitter effect : We are all members of the media now : http://t.co/LL9nFiE9

By: Amarpreet Kalkat

Amarpreet Kalkat — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:56:13 +0000

I am involved in building a product which leverages this exact concept to cull out those pieces of “social reporting” that would have possibly gone unnoticed otherwise.
However, our thinking is that this “social reporting” or ‘democratization of media” is a complement for traditional media, not a replacement. The curation that can happen through “closed professional” media can not easily be matched by “open amateur” media, but the coverage of “open amateur” cannot be matched by “closed professional”. Both jostle for space, give or take a bit, but in the end, both coexist, and it is the consumer who now has more choice, and at the cost of consuming more information.

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:26:56 +0000

This isn’t on the political spectrum, but I do think it’s interesting to note how social media has made the news cycle that much faster. When I was interning in London, news broke on Twitter of a “bomb threat” at one of the Tube stations. Everyone was scoffing at the media for not picking up the story, but it turned out to be nothing. It was nice for the people that used that Tube station (to know to avoid it on their commute home), but for everyone in London that got all in a fuss because there was a bomb threat in the city, it was too fast. The news media didn’t pick it up because they were waiting to see if it was actually newsworthy–which, to be honest, it really wasn’t. The faster news cycle can be great for some things, but for other situations it really is just unneccesary.

By: jaime jaime

jaime jaime — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:59:39 +0000

I am a former reporter and news director from NPR-affiliated stations. I can tell you citizen-reporters often are faster and more accurate than the mainstream media. They can whine and complain all they want but they are doing it to themselves. They need to stop being mouthpieces of the Democrat National Committee and go back to some semblance of fair play and balance. I was always proud that both Republicans and Democrats would go after me. Nobody knew my personal politics. Now, it is easy to see the bias in reporting. Pretty darn sad.

By: Sani Moyo

Sani Moyo — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 03:23:39 +0000

The good part is that it skips the powerful media empires that for the past few decades have been controlling what information we have access to, who to vote for and so on.

By: Scott D.R.

Scott D.R. — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:49:43 +0000

Thank you.

“One year it was a scientific toy with infinite possibilities of practical use; the next it was the basis of a system of communication the most rapidly expanding, intricate, and convenient that the world has known.”
. . .

“The result can be nothing less than a new organization of society – a state of things in which every individual, however secluded, will have at call every other individual in the community, to the saving of no end of social and business complications, of needless goings to and fro, of disappointments, delays, and a countless host of those great and little evils and annoyances which go so far under present conditions to make life laborious and unsatisfactory. The time is close at hand when the scattered members of civilized communities will be as closely united, so far as instant tele[tweet]ic communication is concerned, as the various members of the body now are by the nervous system.”

The Future of the Telephone, Scientific American, January 10, 1880