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Res nou pels geeks però una introducció a les xarxes socials i a l’impacte que tenen a la societat. Ha estat molt interessant participar a la Universitat de Lleida a les jornades que l’associació ASPID, una associació de discapacitats físics de Lleida, ha organitzat al voltant del tema xarxes socials.
No havia tingut mai abans ocasió de conèixer la relació dels discapacitats físics amb un món sense cap barrera ni arquitectònica ni tecnològica.
(Documentary entirely in Catalan. Excerpts translated into English after the video)
“I tu quin diari compres?” (which newspaper do you buy?) is a 40 minute long documentary by the Catalan public TV on the changing of the news landscape in the digital world. It covers issues about media convergence, citizen journalism,social networks and the search for viable business models online.
The newstand in the journalism faculty of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona sells 80% less newspapers than 10 years ago and they survive selling candies. We’re witnessing the crises of the newspaper business model while there’s no clear digital alternative.
You don’t have to find the news, news simply find you.
You know exactly what’s going on, they can’t hide it from you.
Nicholas Lemann, dean at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City
What’s really important is that we have a lot of different points of view published digitally. Will this substitute journalism? Clearly not. The crowd can’t do it.
I’m a New York Times and a Philadelphia Inquirer subscriber and I’ll continue to do so because I want these two newspapers to exist.
I don’t mind paying for the subscriptions but I’d prefer if newspapers talked about the things that really worry me. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t and when they don’t I search the internet for information about the issues I’m interested in.
Newspapers are more concerned with the news that help them selling more rather than with news that people want to know. Sports sell more than social issues.
The only question I have is whether the business will be print or multimedia. So in this difficult moment of transition you have to be as flexible as possible: you have to produce good print journalism, on the web, on iPods, on mobile phones, on computers and if they invent a watch we also have to be able to serve news there.
If you have an excellent content it translates into a good business whether it’s print or whatever.
Sílvia Barrosso, editor of Avui.cat, largest Catalan online medium
I didn’t find adapting to the immediacy of the online world difficult. You just change your mindset and accept that you’re a radio.
In principle I work for the printed version but I end up working also for the digital one.
I five years time I’ll cover an event and bring my video camera. I’ll produce the written column, the video, the digital column… everything. I’m not ready but I have no choice.
All newspapers, if not there yet, are on the verge of having more readers online than on paper.
Traditionally the business model for the newspaper was based on advertising and sales. Online sells don’t exist and advertising revenues are minimal compared to print.
We assume that if newspapers move to the web they will survive but this is not a certain thing. A successful online publication has profits of around 3% while a successful newspaper can yield a 30%. With this margin the capacity to reinvest in professionals to improve content quality will diminish resulting in a loss of quality.
Google news hierarchy is done by a machine; the most read news are the most important and the most important are the most read.
We left to the robots what they do best and we don’t want to do. We don’t devote any effort to cutting & pasting information nor the last minute news. This is done so the few resources we have can work on information that’s different from the rest.
Big newspapers are also disappearing from the internet. Now who gives you credibility apart from the brand? Most of the times a contact from your social network. You click on the link without knowing where the information came from.
We will survive without some well know mastheads that’s for sure.
Google is so successful because it organizes information the way people like it and that’s why we like it.
We usually don’t have today’s newspaper but we know what’s going on.
Someone in my Twitter network has posted a link that I assume it will be interesting because I trust this contact as a news source.
Contents can be generated by professionals and the big challenge for people is to filter these contents in order to get what really matters. It used to be easy before in the newspaper era where one-size-fits-all. If you don’t like it I’m sorry. Now all the information is available and the challenge is for the technology to serve me the five items of news that really matter the most to me.
The great thing about being a citizen journalist it’s that I’m not necessarily accountable to do things the way the other journalists do. I can be very personal and tell exactly what I think to my readers.
Some rewrite without even crediting the source expensive that may well be news stories of journalists who have invested days, weeks or months in their work.
Let me remind Rupert Murdoch than he can shut down the indexing of his contents by Google right now by disallowing Googles’s robots in the robots.txt file.
But be carefull because when you do, and that’s why you didn’t do it, you’ll be denying access to all website that aggregate and link to your news and overnight you’ll start losing most of your traffic.
Luís Collado, head of editorial contents Google Spain
We never had any request to disallow Google’s robot from any news company. Not even Murdoch’s.
What internet gives for free is all kind of news bulletins, sports, financial information, wheather information… but what it doesn’t offer is investigative reports.
The important question is not if there will be newspapers. The important question is if there will be journalism and the answer is yes.
“Nosaltres som els mitjans”. Presentació sobre l’evolució dels mitjans des de la tele en blanc i negre fins a la web actual i el nostre rol central en ella. El canvi de paradigma de consumidors d’informació a productors/consumidors.
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