YouTube Reporters Center Channel

YouTube Reporters Center Channel

Go to http://www.youtube.com/user/reporterscenter You need not visit every video, but instead select at least 4 videos to view. They may be from the same playlist or …

Clay Shirky on Internet Issues Facing Newspapers

Clay Shirky on Internet Issues Facing Newspapers

October 2, 2009. Clay Shirky describes the changing news landscape that has put accountability journalism at risk, and outlines a “journalistic ecosystem” that is needed …

The Best Camera is the One You Have With You - Shawn Rocco

The Best Camera is the One You Have With You - Shawn Rocco

N&O photographer, Shawn Rocco fires up Ignite/Raleigh with pictures taken using the best camera — the one you have with you. Nice pictures from a …

James Surowiecki: When social media became news

James Surowiecki: When social media became news

In this 2006 TED talk, James Surowiecki a UNC grad and author of “The Wisdom of Crowds” who writes a regular column on economics at …

Paul Resnick discusses reputation systems

Paul Resnick discusses reputation systems

In this brief (under 10 minutes), Paul Resnick, Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, discusses his work on reputation systems including eBay.

Informing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman (1990)

Informing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman (1990)

Video from the Internet Archive’s Open Mind series Transcript of his talk here at EFF [...] I do not know very much more about computer technology …

True Enough - Farhad Manjoo @ Google about truthiness

True Enough - Farhad Manjoo @ Google about truthiness

In True Enough, Manjoo presents findings from psychology, sociology, political science, and economics to show how new technologies are prompting the cultural ascendancy of belief …

Social Media explained in Plain English and with cut outs

Social Media explained in Plain English and with cut outs

Not only does this video do a good and simple overview of social media and by extension citizen media, the way in which they tell …

Connected Lives - Barry Wellman (brief TV interview)

Connected Lives - Barry Wellman (brief TV interview)

Here’s a brief Q and A with Social Networking researcher Barry Wellman. See also a longer talk with Wellman in the Social Networking category.

Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country

Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country

(This is the trailer for the film. I’m working on arrangements to see this film for our class. There may be a theatrical release in …