Online Communities sometimes help to name and shame the bad guys, not just provide grooming grounds. From Columbian Missourian by MORGAN COOK. Facebook helps crack caseFacebook acted as an investigative tool when a resident downloaded child pornography on campus Before an MU student suspected of downloading child pornography became the subject of an MU Police investigation in August, he was the subject of an online community investigation that lasted a day and a half and was conducted over a public message board. Facebook played a role in what some Cramer Hall residents did that night to expose the student’s online Continue Reading…
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I wandered into The Sydney Institute’s function on Monday night, where the speaker was Mark Scott, the new MD and Editor-in-Chief at the ABC. Mark is from Fairfax (and government and education). The ABC was announcing it’s new editorial guidelines. (script here) Both the tone and the content were strong statements. Mark clearly was laying down the law – bearding poor ol Aunties critics in the lion’s den. And I very deliberately wanted to speak about this issue here, at The Sydney Institute. It isn’t just in the hope that by being my gracious hosts tonight, Gerard and Anne Henderson Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:14 am Tagged with: ABC, ABC Editorial Polices, Anne Henderson, Bernard Kings, cellular telephone, director, Editor-in-Chief, Gerard Henderson, Managing Director, Mark Scott, mobile, MySpace, Online Communities, radio network, Social Media Australia, Sydney Institute, youtube
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Robert Andrews at Journalism.co.uk has a snippet on some jobs working with Citizen Murdoch. I’ll quote it in full as its only a wee thing: Rupert Murdoch’s News International is to embark on a big expansion of its internet communities commitment this summer. Recruitment advertisements have gone out for a number of positions “on several levels, in a new online community team as part of an exciting project”. The drive, which is in an early stage, will see the addition of an online community editor, who will create new forums on hot topics and will seed user-generated content from readers, Continue Reading…
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Some little bloglets for you to munch on. Small, tasty and digestible. Enjoy! Bloglet #1 From the Network Unbound, article by Anya KamenetzThen, on Tuesday, April 4, 24-year-old Sandi Thom signed a £1 million, five-album deal with RCA/Sony BMG out of her basement in London, live via Webcast. She had just finished 21 straight nights of live performances–also Webcast from her basement. By the end, Thom was pulling in a nightly audience of 100,000 listeners. In both cases, the “audience,” whether of pissed-off students or besotted roots-rock fans, was drawn together, at least in part, by word of mouth on Continue Reading…
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