April 2012
7 posts
Sherry Turkle: The Flight from Conversation →
I first encountered Turkle’s research on mediated communication while developing a readings list for my doctoral dissertation on journalism as a conversation. I’ve had a mad crush on her ever since. She’s a rare qualitative scholar in an ocean of quantoids at MIT, a challenge in itself. She’s also one of the first scholars/psychologists to study the Internet’s impact...
Charles Colson, Watergate Felon Turned Evangelist,... →
Oh my god.
The Woman Who Brought Down Sandusky →
I got so much love for this year’s Pulitzer Prizes for journalism, announced Monday. Not only did my peeps at The Seattle Times win for an investigation into abusive methadone prescriptions, but a young reporter who preceded my time at the paper years ago, Eli Sanders, picked up a prize for his harrowing account of a murder-rape published in Seattle’s alternative paper, The Stranger.
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The Delicate Art of Anonymity in the News
Quoting anonymous sources in the news these days is about as verboten as telling your waning audiences to bug off, as the student reporters at the college where I teach might attest. In some ways, they’re synonymous.
For decades, lazy journalists routinely attributed controversial material in stories to anonymous sources — until readers and media critics lashed out. By the time I got to college,...
How to Promote Listening in Comment Streams →
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ibmsocialbiz:
Scientists in Seattle want to improve the listening skills of the Web. In terms of conversation, they say, the Web is fairly social (about the level of a 2-year-old, able to express simple thoughts). However —
Communication is about listening as much as speaking. Unfortunately, our web interfaces have thus far paid scant attention to supporting listening, creating a...
News with a View: The Eclipse of Objectivity
Objectivity is easily the most confused and problematic goal of modern American journalism. I spent part of last summer writing a chapter for a smart, new book of essays that explores the concept and, in many cases, rips it to shreds.
At last, the book is out: News with a View: The Eclipse of Objectivity in Modern Journalism. My chapter, as you might guess, focuses on conversational journalism...
