Morning 26th May
Trying to focus this week on establishing PLN strategies to commit to once this more formal learning episode is over.
Priorities:
- Search twitter for appropriate groups
- Re-enter sl & visit sadly neglected library sites
- Set up ongoing network with interested inf506 colleagues?
- Return to complete my Pageflakes reader
Interesting to read the Pew report on news coverage by traditional news media compared with social media outlets. Traditional media needs to recover readership but it would be disappointing to see all media coverage reduced to the lowest common denominator quick grab, emotive story lines that seem to circulate briefly round social media networks. In depth reportage is important to reasoned debate and it seems supplies a large percentage of source material for blog discussion; perhaps all social media circulation ... Pew reports that Tweets come from all sides of politics but 140 characters do not allow for discussion! and how many tweets do people examine on the one subject? Blog discussion is significant, yet not necessarily indexed and available to searchers. Traditional media coverage is readily discoverable, although if few read it, is it ‘available’? Future thinking would say social media will smother ‘print’ media, but perhaps a compromise position will be reached. Social media users’ interests and journalists’ interests patently diverge; social networkers enjoy politics, journalists look to finance. Is this a warning bell for editors to realign content policies, or do the two medias represent different interest groups and perform different functions? Pew did not sound this area.
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