Social Networks and the Media
* How can social networks be used by journalists and reporters?
Journalists and reporters can efficiency share events include photo and video information with audience. Also they can communicate with colleagues and followers. There are a lot of social networks which journalists and reporters use: facebook, twitter, tumblr, livejournal, blogspot, vkontakte and etc. So many people of mass media sphere have a blog. It’s a dairy in the internet. They write about interesting in their life, job, and world. As well as they have accounts in other social services. Using depends on aims. If they want to tell something in details they prefer blogs, but if they need to be short, they prefer twitter. To post text in twitter is faster and short news is easy to read. Social networks are the best way to be involved in social live and get it with.
* What aspects should a journalist keep in mind when using social networks as a work
tool? (Ethics in Social Networks)
When a journalist uses social networks as a work tool, he should keep some aspects in mind:
-Take audience interests into consideration- it is very important point of journalism, because journalists work for audience. This is one of three main points of journalism. They should give to people what they need and what they want to know about.
-Journalist posts should be a reliable source. Everybody wants to know the truth. Thought the instrumentality of published information people could compose the picture of what is going on.
-Journalists should prepare “fresh” news. The news is recent the better for audience. Journalists approach to be the first hand of giving information.
-Journalists have to remember about sense of humor when it is necessary. Spin control is significant. Text should be colorful and not boring.
- Journalism has educate. People should find something new for themselves by journalistic materials. Audience needs to make discoveries every day.
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- Brands and Branding
- Celebrities, public figures and the media
- Conspiracy Theories and the Media
- 6.1 File-sharing: Internet Piracy or a Personal Right to Download for Free?
- 6.2 Provide arguments for and against file-sharing looking at the problem from both sides (as a consumer and as a copyright owner).
- 7.1 What is file-sharing? What files can be shared on the web? How is it done?
- 7.2 Do you download free music/videos/books?
- Can file-sharing be referred to as piracy? Why or why not?
- 7.4 In which cases is it copyright infringement and in which not?
- 7.5 What are the ways to protect copyright on the Web?
- 7.6 What is the future of file-sharing sites? Will they be closed or become fee-paying?
- 7.7 What is your general attitude to file-sharing? Prove your position.
- What is investigative journalism?
- Define investigative journalism.
- Provide examples of investigative journalism.
- When and where did investigative journalism first appear?
- Who were the first investigative journalists? What stories did they cover?
- Is investigative journalism developed in Russia? Prove your point.
- Explain the origin of the term ‘muckraking’
- Joseph Pulitzer
- Билет 16. Newspapers
- Principles of Journalism
- Social Networks and the Media
- Stereotyping
- The Art of The Interview
- Первый вариант 21.
- 21. The Place of Podcasting in the Field of Contemporary Mass Media
- The Place of Podcasting in the Field of Contemporary Mass Media.
- Is podcasting developed in Russia? Are there any podcasts worth listening to in this country? If so, what are they?
- The Pulitzer Prize
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- Trends and fads
- War Coverage in the Media
- William r. Hearst