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panic in the streets of mumbai

twitter, mobile phones and participatory action

robert.jewitt@sunderland.ac.ukwww.remedialthoughts.com

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• “Journalism as it is, is coming to an end. The boundaries between journalism and other forms of public communication … are vanishing, the internet makes all other types of newsmedia rather obsolete…”

Deuze, 2007: 141

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• “Big media … treated the news as a lecture. We told you what the news was…. Tomorrow’s news reporting and production will be more of a conversation, or a seminar. The lines will blur between producers and consumers…”

Gillmor, 2006: xxiii-xxiv

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• Crowdsourcing - the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people or community in the form of an open call.

Jeff Howe, 2006; 2008

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----------------------------November 26th to 29th 2008----------------------------173 people wounded----------------------------307 people injured----------------------------Ajmal Amir Kasab only surviving terrorist of the original 10----------------------------Lashkar-e-Taiba confirmed by authorities as responsible ----------------------------

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----------------------------Messages appear chronologically from top to bottom----------------------------140 characters in length----------------------------Status updates via webpage, mobile phones, custom applications----------------------------Synchronous mobile updates in Canada, US and India (and now back on Vodafone in UK!)----------------------------

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-------Traffic-------

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-------Growth-------Users-------

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------------Wossy------------JohnCleese------------schofe------------ChrisDJMoyles------------AlanCarr------------

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Image source: Gaurav Mishra, 2008: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gauravonomics/3064583179/

-------------------------------------------------------Multiple distributed accounts from Twitter-------------------------------------------------------Too much information to process?-------------------------------------------------------80 messages every 5 seconds-------------------------------------------------------

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Twitter myth

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Comcast customer in Jacksonville, FL 32225

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----------Issues----------

---------------------------Cautious about crowdsourcing---------------------------Cautious about integration of

Web 2.0 tools into mainstream news

---------------------------Threat to reliability of journalism---------------------------

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