social media landscapes Sanjana Hattotuwa Centre for Policy Alternatives TED Fellow Alumn
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social media landscapesSanjana HattotuwaCentre for Policy AlternativesTED Fellow Alumn
social media what’s out there today
unlimited storage no limits to content creation
broadband faster and cheaper web access
tablets & smartphones the thumb generation
what’s new?
• Ubiquity of two way communications
• Addressable peoples, even those who IDPs or refugees
• Disintermediated models vs. traditional media model
• People as producers
• Low resolution, hyperlocal helps focus and granularity
• Aggregation of low resolution helps macro analysis and strategy
what’s new?
• Democratisation of the technologies of bearing witness
• Social media as the new commons
• Acts of journalism
Old Media Consumer
Social MediaConsumer /
Witness / Producer
Information as a conversation Knowledge through curation
Information as a package
Passive
Active / Reactive
Resilient & pervasive publication: Facebook
facebook hyperlocal, provincial, national
memes on facebook web based cartoons for social and political critique
Humans of Kabul Seeing past stereotypes
Humans of Kabul Seeing past stereotypes
Humans of Afghanistan Facebook bearing witness
Resilient & pervasive publication: IM
whatsapp the new sms
whatsapp the new sms
sms / texting information for the masses
sms / texting information for the masses
hyperlocal messaging for community, by community
Resilient & pervasive publication: photography & trans-media
flickr photo collections
flickr promoting social work
flickr citizen journalism
flickr advocacy and activism
storehouse mobile visual narratives
instagram mobile photography
everydaysrilanka mobile photography
srilankabaton mobile photography
instagram community collective gaze
art/critique/photo serious instagramming
art/critique/photo serious instagramming
art/critique/photo serious instagramming
Resilient & pervasive publication: data & art
mediated data, art, socio-political critique
Resilient & pervasive publication: Twitter
twitter updates, insight, witness
twitter community from virtual to physical
govt on twitter from virtual to physical
news via twitter real time to real insights
org’s on twitter information, community and engagement
Resilient & pervasive publication: maps & mapping
maps mapping religious extremism
google maps mapping natural disasters
google map engine lite mapping election violence
crisis in darfur mapping atrocities
crisis in darfur mapping atrocities using google earth
Resilient & pervasive publication: video
collective(s) bearing witness through video
periscope instant mobile video
slacktivism engendering real change
beyond the virtual engage the real world
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