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In the seminar today you will all set up a Twitter Account by following the step-by-step guide online: http://twitter.com/

• Create your own Twitter page and start ‘tweeting’ !

• Find and follow people who interest you: musicians, artists, comedians, politicians, celebs, friends, organisaitons, shops… Follow at least 15 people.

• Read about todays current ‘trends’ / ‘trending topics’

• Write your own 'Tweet' or 'Re-Tweet' someone else's tweet

• Create your own digital newspaper from your ‘twitter feeds’ using paper.li: http://paper.li/

• Add links to your twitter page and your digital newspaper on your blog: go to: Design - click on one of your link-list gadgets and add the links - Save.

Deadline: Tuesday 22nd February (in class) or you can complete this from home by Monday 28th February 5.00pm

Digital Distribtion: Ushahidi

Ushahidi is an example of a Crowd-sourcing Internet Platform in which anyone can report on their current situation in the world. It encourages people to upload information about their live news, specifically related to natural disasters, war and political violence.

Task 3: What effect has the internet had on journalism?

Louisville News reporting has come a long way since this 1937 photograph of the offices of the Louisville Courier Journal. Photograph: Margaret Bourke-White/Getty. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/20/what-effect-internet-on-journalism?INTCMP=SRCH

What effect has the internet had on journalism?

Read the following article by Aleks Krotoski. Published in The Observer, Sunday 20th February 2011:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/20/what-effect-internet-on-journalism?INTCMP=SRCH

Using this article as a starting point write a short essay on 'What effect has the Internet had on Jounalism?' You can use the discussion in class and your new Twitter-feed newspapers in your essay or address any of the following questions:

1. How has the most revolutionary innovation of our time - the internet - transformed how we find, understand and share information, news, music and videos?

2. How has digital distribution changed the role of the producer and the role of the consumer?

3. What responsibilities do we, as active audiences have in a world of digital distribution?

Deadline: Completed and added as a blog post to your blog: 5.00pm Monday 28th February 2011.