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"To those who Twitter, the reporter who investigates a story before offering it to the public must also seem tediously ruminant. On Twitter, the notes become the story, devoid of even five minutes of reflection on the writer's way to the computer. I can see that there are times -an airplane landing in the Hudson, a presidential election in Iran-when this type of impromptu journalism becomes a necessity, and an exciting one at that. Luckily, reporters still exist to make sense of information bytes and expand upon them for readers-but for how much longer?"

commentary on ECAR report - student use of technology - The Unofficial Facebook Blog

Recent Ted Talk from Clay Shirky presented at the Ted@State conference. Description from the site:\n\nWhile news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

from Chris Sessums Blog :: Notes from the Creating and Connecting Report

report of a study on use of Facebook

"Researchers at Yahoo analyzed tweets after the Chilean earthquake earlier this year and found evidence that the Twitter community works like a "collaborative filter," questioning reports that turn out to be fake and confirming those that are true."

"The scarce resource in the age of digital journalism is not high-quality content, but attention."

"Altimeter Group conducted research, and gleaned input from 34 vendors, agencies, and experts, to determine success criteria and develop a roadmap for Facebook page best practices. We found Eight Success Criteria for Facebook page marketing, and then tested the maturity of 30 top brands across six industries."

"Altimeter has conducted a research project to find out how companies are connecting social technologies to the overall buying process as well as analyzing how they increase revenues for brands."

Discussion of whether it is appropriate for a reporter to quote material from tweets in a story, case study from mlive.com

"This course is taught at the University of Florida in the College of Journalism and Communications. It is open to any UF student who has completed JOU3101 or RTV3303 with a grade of C or better. You will find it listed under Journalism with the course number JOU4341."

2010 profile of Zuck in New Yorker to coincide with opening of the Social Network movie.

Gladwell adds a contrary voice to the idea that social media can play a role in political activism.

In the evolving ethical landscape of social media, what's the "line" for deciding when to share something related to a story? References photos and video of photographers killed in Libya, April 2011.