Session 2 Citizen Media and Online Free Speech

Very little information is available on online media, amid total silence on mainstream media.

Online journalists and bloggers now represent 45 of all media workers in prison worldwide.

Applications arrived from throughout the country showing an impressive background in community based projects, including online radio broadcasting, blogging, social media promotion, online dictionaries, and online children's games.

Russians are actively consuming online news and slowly shunning traditional media.

The demonstration received much media attention and was widely shared online.

Mainstream media coverages followed and online petitions have been filed since.

Social media and online platforms became crucial avenues for the electorate.

In more recent times, with the advent of social media, online news portals such as Peninsula Online, Gulf Times Online, Qatar Chronicle and Doha News have gained popularity among the public in Qatar.

THE REQUIREMENTS Our ideal candidate has an international outlook and solid experience in blogging and online citizens' media with a special emphasis on online video.

Empivot is an online green media aggregator, or as its tag line says, it is the 'Online Network for Green Video'.

With regards to access to technology and online media, the marked difference persists.

Among the online rage towards Chinese government and media, there s one different voice.

Governments with democratic trappings cannot afford to censor the online media for an extended period.

Online attacks approaching the elections have also become routine for political activists on social media.

Excerpts and descriptions of OT materials were published online by a former member in 1995 and then circulated in mainstream media.

Mostafai recently fled Iran and is now based in Norway, where he has publicized the case online and in international media.

The shift has a crucial effect in probability and in the customer demographics of businesses like mass media and online sellers.

So the traditional media companies, of course, are paying very close attention to these online communities.

According to media reports, news has been circulating online of clashes between protesters and security forces in Tehran, Iran's capital.

The Brazilian government s initiative to offer benefits to prisoners family members and dependents has prompted discussion in online citizen media.

Media and advertising companies still use the same old demographics to understand audiences, but they're becoming increasingly harder to track online, says media researcher Johanna Blakley. As social media outgrows traditional media, and women users outnumber men, Blakley explains what changes are in store for the future of media.

Many other activists campaigning on behalf of immigrants in the United States also turn to online citizen media to spread awareness.

Professional journalists are increasingly migrating to online media and blogs in pursuit of more freedom, blurring the old lines of definition.

Secondly, most of the editors or content operators of major portals are coming from Nanfang Media Group, which is like a military academy for online media.

The latest decision of the Supreme Court makes online media (to avoid being confused with blogs, online media outlets have to be registered at the Ministry of Telecommunications and have almost the same rights and responsibilities as conventional forms of media) not responsible for the comments posted on online forums. At the same time, the ruling gives the authority to Roskomnadzor to flag certain comments as inappropriate.

Online, K_amofah tweeted his frustration of how the masses are not doing enough to employ social media during decision making in Ghana

Now the easiest analogy for swap trading is like an online dating service for all your unwanted media.

Local online media outlet CJITL reported that the national TV station was down today due to the floods.

At the moment, the most likely mitigators of fake news online may be the social media companies themselves.

Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad's supporters have launched a multi media campaign called Dar Emtedad Mehr (meaning, Following Kindness ) covering social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and other online media.

The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is offering a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Social Media for Journalists The Basics.

This is a summary of Israeli perspectives, blog posts, and media shared online over the last two days, in reaction to the unrest in Egypt.

Global Voices Online was recently nominated as a Community Choice Finalist for the 2010 We Media Game Changer Award.

There has been a surge on social media of articles and online petitions regarding the taxing of sanitary napkins.

The use of interactive new media, particularly the internet, promotes online interaction and this distribution of knowledge between users.

I doubt that mainstream media would actually cover the story, and hence it is important to spread the word online in blogs and forums.

Rumours have been circulating online and in mainstream media for about two weeks that Khamis Al Gaddafi, son of Muammar Gaddafi, has been killed.

The true novelty seems to be that Brazil, a country that has an extremely wide presence in a majority of online social media, is learning to better harness the potential of online networks to fuel national protests.

We can all play a part helping people overcome barriers (technical or otherwise) that stop them from taking part in this everyday online media revolution.

Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices Online, supports people in sharing knowledge and skills about citizen media for digital storytelling and citizen participation.

LG So far we've had a lot of really positive feedback, especially from online media and groups that deal with women s rights in some way.

Taking on its current name in 1986, it expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theater, radio, music, publishing, and online media.

Nicknamed the online red army and led by nine teachers and six students, Guangdong Baiyun University's own Student Internet and Social Media Information Monitoring team was built in 2010 to watch student conversations and control negative sentiment online.

Blogger Wael Abbas writes about the Egyptian court's decision to grant online publications including blogs the same freedom as print media.