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Live Blogging: Media Convergence
Matured?
University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 24 January 2014
Dr Neil Thurman
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• Technological convergence – “fusion” of
video, telecoms, computing
• Convergence of industrial structures and
ownership and control
• Convergence of patterns of use (consumers)
• Cultural and textual convergence.
SILVERSTONE, ROGER (1995) “Convergence Is a Dangerous Word”,
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media
Technologies 1(1) pp. 11–13
A “dangerous” word?
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Cultural and textual convergence.
“both fact and fantasy lose their distinctiveness,
and previously discrete categories of media
content and function blend in an electronic
hybridity”
• Infotainment
• Docu-dramas
• The live and pre-recorded
A dangerous word?
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• “Structured inequalities … created &
sustained” by e-media
• “progressive erosion of principles of …
universal access”
• Sees the use of media and information
technologies by “individual, non-business”
users as “situated …[in] home, family and
household”.
A dangerous word?
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“this ‘democratization’ of media use signals
a broadening of opportunities for individuals
and grassroots communities to tell stories..
to present arguments.. to share information”
Jenkins and Deuze, 2008
Jenkins, Henry and Deuze, Mark (2008) “Editorial: Convergence
Culture” Convergence (14) 1
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the emergence … an integrated media
system has been slow, a result, some
argue, of institutional inertia and technical
obstacles
“the future of media and information
technology ... is neither certain nor
predictable” - Silverstone, 1995
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“In a longitudinal study of 83 online
news sites in the US, Greer and
Mensing (2006) found a slight
increase in interactive features from
1997 to 2003”
“Dimitrova and Neznanski’s (2006)
study of the coverage of the Iraq war
in 2003 in 17 online newspapers
from the US and elsewhere showed
no increase in the use of video and
audio in the US newspapers
compared to Schultz’s study
published seven years earlier.”
Steensen, Steen (2011) “ONLINE JOURNALISM AND THE PROMISES
OF NEW TECHNOLOGY: A critical review and look ahead” Journalism
Studies (12) 3
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http://nms.sagepub.com/content/14/5/867.full.pdf+html Jacobson, 2012
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• New forms of long-form
online narrative journalism
• Live Blogs
Media Convergence Matured?
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New forms of long-form online
narrative journalism
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Snowfall: Ambitions
• to make a “Single story out of all the assets”
• “Weave things together” so “Text, video, photography &
graphics could all be consumed in a way that was similar to
reading—a different kind of reading” “wanted [visual] to feel
like a natural continuation [of text].”...
• ... so “readers would ... feel that they were reading into the
graphic, and not seeing it as a distraction”
Source: Duenes et al (2013)
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New forms of long-form online
narrative journalism
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New forms of long-form online
narrative journalism
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New forms of long-form online
narrative journalism
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New forms of long-form online
narrative journalism
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Time spent on 4 news formats, coverage of
Royal Wedding, Guardian.co.uk, April 2011
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Time spent on 4 news formats, coverage of
protest march, Guardian.co.uk, March 2011
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0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Boston MarathonBombings (n=6)
2012-13 Egyptprotests (n=3)
Birth of PrinceGeorge (n=6)
Wimbledon 2013(n=4)
Av. visit duration toUS newspaperwebsite (2012)
Engagement per visitor / visit duration (mins)
Total unique visitor numbers=49 million
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Field work January 2013
Online survey. Excluded
respondents who’d not
accessed news in previous month
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January 2013
15% av.
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Live Blogging – significance
• “the pivotal platform for newsrooms”
— Prof Charlie Beckett (2010)
• “transforming journalism”
— Paul Gallagher (2011), head of
online content at the Manchester
Evening News.
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Glasgow helicopter crash- bbc.in/18a4p8v
UK energy pricing - bit.ly/18a3LYO
NSA files - latest - bit.ly/1c6sR8M
Live Blogging – recent examples
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Live Blogging – key characteristics
Direct relaying of commentary and analysis as events unfold
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Live Blogging – key characteristics
Reverse
Chronological
order with latest
update at top
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Live Blogging – key characteristics
Often contain multimedia elements and make generous use of links
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Live Blogging – key characteristics
Usually signpost 3rd party content transparently citing sources
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Live Blogging –
key characteristics
Corrections flagged
explicitly
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Live Blogging – what it’s not
• Not a narrative constructed
after the event
• Doesn’t use conventional
inverted pyramid structure
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Live Blogging – what it’s not
• Not truly analogous with
rolling TV news coverage
because:
• Less reliance on visual and aural channels
• Live Blogs allow longer gaps between updates
when there is lull in story (1/2 hour) – not
acceptable on tv!
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Time spent on 4 news formats, coverage of
Royal Wedding, Guardian.co.uk, April 2011
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Source: Newspaper Association of America
US
0
5E+09
1E+10
1.5E+10
2E+10
2.5E+10
3E+10
3.5E+10
4E+10
4.5E+10
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Combined US Newpaper Online Page Impressions (billions)
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• UK3A. Where were you when you looked at/listened to the news over the last few days?• Base: Denmark=994
Reuters Digital News Survey 2013
Where do you access news?
71%
41%
31%
28%
9%
6%
6%
5%
1%
0%
At home: communal space
At home: personal space
At work
Whilst commuting in car or other personal transport
Whilst travelling, commuting on public transport
While out and about generally
At a place of study
Other people’s homes
Another place
I didn’t consume news during the last couple of days
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Aggregated hourly page view data
for 10 Live Blogs
at Guardian.co.uk, March-May 2011.
Office Hours
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‘News at Work’ consumption patterns....
• Methodical & comprehensive
1st visit to new sites followed
by...
• Several subsequent visits
motivated by “need for a
distraction or more info
about an event”
Source: Boczkowski, 2010
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‘News at Work’ consumption patterns....
• Habit of monitoring news
sites homepages and often
not “clicking on stories”
during subsequent visits.
• Preference for textual rather
than aural, animated or
highly visual content
(“privacy concerns” in office
location).
Source: Boczkowski, 2010
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Regular updates (av. every 9 mins) provide follow up
information about events.
—Survey respondents, pers. comm, Aug ‘11
“I like that it is
updated
when a new
item on the
story breaks”
“I like simple
bite-sized
nuggets of
information on
updates”
“I like the
immediacy...
being kept
up-to-date”
How Live Blogging suits
‘News at Work’ consumption
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How Live Blogging suits
‘News at Work’ consumption
Use of a single–dynamic–page, suits users’ preference
for monitoring a page rather than clicking on stories
—Survey respondent, pers. comm, Aug ‘11
29 users in our survey ‘liked’ the ‘convenience’ of Live Blogs.
“I like that it gives you many
different little points about
the story”
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Text format more suitable for reading in office where
workers need to look as though they are working
—Survey respondents, pers. comm, Aug ‘11
“Easier to read
while getting on
with other things
(e.g. at work!)”
“Perfect way
to keep up to
date during
the working
day”
“Something
I can
glance at if
I’m busy”
How Live Blogging suits
‘News at Work’ consumption
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January 2013
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‘News at Work’ consumption &
news content
‘News at work’ consumers prefer “non
public-affairs stories – in particular
sports, crime and celebrity”
“better fodder for conversations with
co-workers than public affairs news”.
—Boczkowski, 2010: 153
‘News’ from DailyMail.co.uk homepage, 4 Jan ‘12 >
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Popularity of different types of live news pages (live blogs) with US
and UK news consumers, January 2013.
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Popularity of different types of live news pages (live blogs) with US
and UK news consumers, January 2013.
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“It is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that, in
operational and practical fact, the medium is the
message”
—Marshall McLuhan (2001: 7)
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• Risks
• Little time for factual verification
• Trivialise news
• Confuse readers
• No time for the basics
• Opportunities
• Rebuilt trust
• Increase participation
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“looser culture of corroboration”
Corroborate --
vb1.( tr ) to confirm or support (facts, opinions, etc), esp by
providing fresh evidence: the witness corroborated the
accused's statement
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Verification
• Matt Wells: if something “might be quite important” but cannot be
verified by the news organisation it is okay to “flag it up” and ask the
audience “to help verify it” (personal communication, June 17, 2011).
• Paul Lewis: if “we’re not sure whether or not this is true … don’t put it
out. Our job is to find out whether or not it’s true, not to put it out and
ask people to decide for us” (personal communication, June 8, 2011).
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Usability
Reuters Institute Digital News Survey 2013, UK sample.
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Live blogs – threat to ‘universal access’
• Live blogs – resource intensive – 15 ‘person hours’ each
“There is still a need for self-contained, structured reporting
and analysis, and for narrative storytelling, but its relationship
with the live stream is still developing. We are still working to
understand how they can best complement one another and
how the two can be blended together when appropriate. And,
for newsrooms, what the implications are of trying to do both”
-- Steve Herrman, editor BBC News Online, July 20, 2013.
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• Risks
• Little time for factual verification
• Trivialise news
• Confuse readers
• No time for the basics
• Opportunities
• Rebuilt trust
• Increase participation
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Usability, balance, accuracy, convenience:
UK readers’ attitudes
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—user survey and interviews, pers. comm, Aug ‘11
“the person
writing it is less
likely to have
an angle”
“less opinion based
and more factual...I
feel more
empowered to make
up my own mind”
Live Blogs – trust and objectivity
“I trust it more
than some
articles...most
of it’s not
opinion, it’s
more fact
based.”
“I’m more engaged in news than I have
been for years. For me it’s about being
able to make up my own mind.”
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Objectivity = verification
+ transparency +
supporting evidence +
balance
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Aggregation and links
• 16.25 hyperlinks per live blog at The Guardian (Thurman and Walters,
2013: 91)
• Live blogs = one third substantive quotes (ibid)
• Median number of links in regular news articles - 2.6 (Stray, 2010).
• Best practice:
• Attribute transparently (block quotes etc)
• Link to source material directly.
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Making corrections
• Acknowledge within the
live blog as quickly as
possible.
• AND go back to the
original post.
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—user survey and interviews, pers. comm, Aug ‘11
“the person
writing it is less
likely to have
an angle”
“less opinion based
and more factual...I
feel more
empowered to make
up my own mind”
Live Blogs – trust and objectivity
“I trust it more
than some
articles...most
of it’s not
opinion, it’s
more fact
based.”
“I’m more engaged in news than I have
been for years. For me it’s about being
able to make up my own mind.”
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“this ‘democratization’ of media use signals
a broadening of opportunities for individuals
and grassroots communities to tell stories..
to present arguments.. to share information”
Jenkins and Deuze, 2008
Jenkins, Henry and Deuze, Mark (2008) “Editorial: Convergence
Culture” Convergence (14) 1
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Insert screenshot of a users’ live blog using scriblive platform
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Reader Participation
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
Live Blogs Other article types
Likelihood of users to participate in news formats at Guardian.co.uk
%
Source: Thurman and Walters (2012), n=189
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0
10
20
30
40
50
60
BostonMarathonBombings
(n=3)
2012-13 Egyptprotests (n=2)
Birth of PrinceGeorge (n=3)
Wimbledon2013 (n=3)
Guardian.co.uk(Thurman &
Walters, 2012)
Virginia Tech(Wigley andFontenot,
2009)
Tucson,Arizona
shootings(Wigley andFontenot,
2011)
% user-generated content
Guardian
live
blogs
Newspapers
& TV news
websites
“structured
inequalities …
created and
sustained by
electronic media” –
Silverstone, 1995
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“If you get any more than a hundred comments it becomes
impossible to write the live blog and read the comments”
- Matt Wells, personal communication, June 17, 2011
“[live blogging sports events] is quite a busy process and it would be
difficult to keep an eye on Twitter”
- Rob Smyth, personal communication, July 6, 2011.
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0
10
20
30
40
50
60
BostonMarathonBombings
(n=3)
2012-13 Egyptprotests (n=2)
Birth of PrinceGeorge (n=3)
Wimbledon2013 (n=3)
Guardian.co.uk(Thurman &
Walters, 2012)
Virginia Tech(Wigley andFontenot,
2009)
Tucson,Arizona
shootings(Wigley andFontenot,
2011)
% user-generated content
Guardian
live
blogs
Newspapers
& TV news
websites
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Official
sources
Non-official
sources
Technology-mediated
source interaction
Non
technology-mediated
source interaction