Internet & New Media
The printing press and broadcasting are a one to many medium. The telephone is one-‐to-‐one. Now we had a
medium that was anything we wanted it to be: one-‐to-‐one, one-‐to-‐many, and many-‐to-‐many (Gillmor 2006)
Facebook Twitter Wikipedia Website
1940s
Mainframe computers
1950s
1970s
MicroprocessorPersonal Computers
LaptopTablet PC
Smart phonesWhat's next?
E-‐mail & file transferOne to one
HTML
1990html
Tim Berners-‐LeeHypertext Markup Language
World Wide Webwww
HTML
one to many, many to manyRead/Write Web
Web 1.0
Mosaic 1993first Web browser
1994 Netscape1995 Microsoft Internet Explorer
E-‐mailSearch Engines
Yahoo
Google1998
2010-‐71%
.1
.2E-mail
.3
(web browser)
Read Only
Web 2.0
Read Only
Web 2.0: Read/Write Web
September 11
Web TrafficBlogs
Read/Write web
The day is frozen in time, but the explosions of the airplanes into
those buildings turned new heat on a media glacier, and the ice is still melting Gillmor, 2006 p. 22
Grassroots Journalism
The Gates Come DownWe are watchdogs
Example
hyperlink
Alwatanvs. New York Times
Interactivity
Contact us, e-‐mail
Comments
I-‐Report
Syria tracker
Social Media
(Profiles)
Facebook 2004
Friend/unfriendTwitter 2006
140Follow/unfollow
YouTube 2005Bought by Google 2006
Top sites
Convergence
YouTube ChannelTwitter AccountFacebook PageFlickr Account
Web SiteTraditional Media
Phone application
Web Layout
Easy to navigate
No broken links
Contact US, e-‐mail, phone
ObamaBlack president
YouTube and social media
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