Storify: NBA Free Agency Rumors

Hey everyone!!

This week we needed to make an article on Storify. It is a very cool site to make articles yourself and show twitter feeds and also facebook comments. For my first ever Storify article I wrote about NBA rumors. I specifically focus only on one free agent Andrew Bynum. The reason for picking him is because I am a huge Los Angeles Lakers fan and he was recently apart of there championship team. Although he was traded last season I still thought of him as a Laker.

To read on with these rumors you can view my storify article HERE!!

Summative Blog Post: Twitter or Television?

For the title of my last blog I tried to keep readers thinking. The title is “News Travels Fast! But Whats Faster? Twitter or Television.” Jlucianoo had great comments towards the title and his comment that said “I immediately said that Twitter is faster but if you would have asked what was more accurate my answer would most likely have been television” really stood out. I would have to agree with this comment because although twitter is very quick at delivering news, television will not show it on TV until they 100% know that it is the truth.

Mohamad Rashad Koudsi also brings up great points in his comments when saying that “It (Twitter) is making it possible for people to express what they want and most importantly in a free way which overcomes the controlled and scanned paths that any story would go through to get to the public.” He also explains that he would personally follow a real professional journalist and monitor sources that cover the same topic. I think that is great because like I said earlier in the post professional journalist that are on television will not show the news unless it’s accurate.

This weeks module helped me think about the importance of twitter and what its really used for. It also taught me how to difference twitter from actual facts. Twitter is a great tool for everyday people to tell people your opinions, but in the real world your opinions are separated from the truth. Twitter can be used to disagree with topics that are trending and also agree with them. When using twitter I will only say what is in my mind and not make up news because that’s not my job. I may retweet a report by CNN or CP24 and also news from the NBA, but I wont make it up myself. 

News Travels Fast! But Whats Faster? Twitter or Television?

Growing up in the generation in which media do not only covered on television but also other outlooks such as the Internet. The Internet has brought people many different ways of communicating information to the news. Technology has played an important role as disruptor and enabler in these developments, even if – of course – it has not determined their eventual course. First, the rise of the Internet as a popular medium has led to a substantial increase in available channels for information and entertainment, among other purpose (Bruns and Highfield). Blogs, Twitter, and Facebook are the first steps of journalism these days. When there is a breaking story it is communicated through twitter then evidentially hits the television on the news. Digital media technologies such as Twitter facilitate the instant, online dissemination and reception of short fragments of information from sources outside the formal structures of journalism (Hermida, 2012). The question with Twitter would be “is the good?” I do think that twitter provides new opportunities for everyday posters. It allows the everyday person be the first to break news.

Right now it is the offseason for many big sports such as Hockey, Basketball, and Football. To get the latest news, I follow my favorite journalist that are first to notice when a player is being signed and I think that it twitter is great and provides first hand news. There are many things that twitter and other social media can do for activism in any sense. If someone felt very strongly about an idea and wanted to get more people involved they can use twitter and social media to gain more attention. With the growth of twitter I think that many people will shift there attention from watching news channels such as CNN or BBC and start focusing on twitter to bring people the news quicker. 

References

Hermida, A. (2012). TWEETS AND TRUTH: Journalism as a discipline of collaborative verification. Journalism Practice. 6:5-6, p659-668.

Bruns, A. & T. Highfield. (2012). Blogs, Twitter, and breaking news: The produsage of citizen journalism. pre-publication draft on personal site [Snurb.info]. Published in: Lind, R. A. ed. (2012). Produsing Theory in a Digital World: The Intersection of Audiences and Production. New York: Peter Lang. p15-32.