Meeting Seven:
Post every week to the class blog and to your individual blog!
Will "robot journalists" earn Pulitzers?
Sample "making the invisible visible" videos
The plan for next week
Lemann:
Skepticism about "world-historical development" and model of personal expression
Attack on Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit - David and Goliath imagery
Pew Internet and American Life Report on "Bloggers" - 12 million bloggers / 34% consider it journalism
Acknowledges value of citizen journalism in a sudden disaster
Cynical about "hyperlocal" coverage
Like "church or community newsletter"
Question of where "reporting" is
Internet's "cheerleaders" and emphasis on "self-confidence"
Cohen:
The Sarah Palin analogy
How is blogging imagined as feminized?
Foust:
The Rathergate Scandal
Instapundit
Scott:
Cyberutopianism and "blog triumphalism" (272)
Technological discourses as a site of "displaced social anxieties" (273)
Emphasis on history of blogging culture
Rathergate/Memogate as the exception rather than the rule - what stories don't get picked up by mainstream media (276)
Theoretical framework of the "mediated public sphere" (286)
Case studies of "blogflops"