It Is the Audience!

It’s the Audience, Stupid!

1.What is the new approach to storytelling and how is it being used to broaden audiences?

As a test, Italians were asked what they wanted to have expressed when storytelling. And to no surprise because it’s a social issue,   unemployment, illiteracy and amount of waste humanity produces were among the prime factor in what was popular. This broadens audiences because they are social issues that affects the global world as a whole.

2. How is digital media being used to engage audiences?

Simplifying the material that we expose and using the technology to expand our coverage of the world. When we see the social issues that are around the world, it unites us to find a solution together by coming to a conclusion.  

3. Give three specific examples of how you can incorporate storytelling into an article you write?

• It’s the audience, stupid! Meaning relate to the issues that connect to the audience and seek their needs in order to target and win over the audience like the issues that Italy faces and how word of mouth causes change.
• Wider interest in international news exists than much of the mainstream media assume. Make the international problems effect the world as a whole. For example, in the article it mentions how the Health Care system in Britain and Canadian is superior to the United States Health Care System and we’re using both countries as a model for how to shape ours.
• To paraphrase my high school principal, “more humility, ladies and gents of the media!” The public’s lack of interest in international news could (just possibly) reflect the quality of our journalism rather than the topic itself. The article examines how bullying is a serious issue that has gain attention because of how journalist have covered it in the past couple years and how digital technology has effected the problem.

All the Aggregation That’s Fit to Aggregate

4. What does aggregation mean?

While essential an editor, Aggregation are powerful intellects who shares their information with other editors to expand the sense of the knowledge.

5. Why does the author describe Arianna Huffington as “the queen of aggregation?” 

Arianna Huffington uses unpaid blogs along with celebrity gossip to expand her network which is how the Huffington Post became so powerful, by using other sources to make her’s superior and reputable.

6. Go to the Huffington Post and provide an example.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/20/ryan-reynolds-daughter-james_n_6908952.html?ir=Entertainment

Ryan Reynolds now a newly father revealed that his daughter’s name is “James” which could be played as a hoax but has gained controversy by the Huffington Post by not being a feminine name.  

7. Is aggregation a threat to professional journalism – why or why not?

I believe aggregation can be seen as a threat amongst each other because news networks, papers, and other forms of media always fight to get the latest story or scoop first. The first to expose it to the public usually has the power because they’re credited with being the first to report and that attracts viewers. So aggregation is a system that will corrupt as a whole.

Photojournalism in the Age of New Media

A professional journalist receives a photo captured by a citizen journalist….

 What are the positives?

Technological benefits to reach crisis zones normal reporters could not access, expanding the broad horizon of the world,  social media can be uses to spread the world and cover stories at a faster pace.

 Why does the professional journalist need to be careful?

If the original source of the photo cannot be verified, it loses its rehabilitee as a whole, copyright issues for who owns what, and hard to trace the original source when it’s “shared” or “retweeted” on Facebook and Twitter.

 Why might the content of the photo be called into question?

Verification and where the photo came from can be asked into question because it needs a source.

 How does citizen photojournalist impact the job of the professional photojournalist?

Photojournalist captures the realism in the situation that gets covered. The image is able to connect to the audience in a way the traditional print can’t because each person has a different emotion on the same image which makes photojournalist impacting to the citizens.

Web 3.0

Web 3.0 (also known as semantic web) is a topic or discussion where the web content is able to reach a large amount of people. Social media plays a huge role in Web 3.0 because it's information spans on  a social level that reaches the public such as Google. Recently, there was a debate amongst social media that started on a Web 2.0 level with the debate if a women's dress was Blue and Black as her eyes saw the dress or White and Gold as her boyfriend saw the dress. This expanded through social media and reached to become a phenomena of the day. But how does Web 2.0 reach a 3.0 level?
Web 2.0 is simular to bringing a dish to the dinner table. One user will post something or a topic (like a post on Facebook) and others within the user's span (such as their friends on their page) will comment to interact on a social level in media. When a topic becomes popular amongst it's peeps as people spread the word, the subject soon becomes the talk of the day from a media standpoint. This isn't the first time a Web 3.0 has converge through media to remain as a social level. This past summer the "Ice Bucket Challenge" in association with ALS disease reached a social level which started as a Web 2.0 but has now been branded in social media permanently within a Web 3.0 level which has it's own website sponsored by ALS. While the recurring trend of Web 2.0 becoming Web 3.0 seems unlikely because it's the though of a "genie in a bottle" that comes at random, we can't ignore that Web 3.0 plays a huge role in social media.