Articles about Facebook:
Since the popular social media tool Facebook debuted in February 2004 it has been, in its words, "giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected."
Facebook is a social website that allows people to communicate and interact with friends, family, coworkers, associates, colleagues, customers, and any other acquaintances. The company behind the website develops Internet technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real-world social connections.
Technically speaking, Facebook is the second most-trafficked PHP site in the world, and one of the largest MySQL installations, running thousands of databases. Facebook has a light, powerful multi-language RPC framework that allows the company to tie together subsystems written in any language, running on any platform. The company is the largest user in the world of memcached, an open-source caching system. It has a custom search engine serving millions of queries a day, completely distributed and entirely in-memory, with real-time updates.
How does it work? Each registered user has her or his own Facebook web page. Facebook's page navigation gives users access to core site functions and applications. Links to pages central to the user experience – Profile, Friends, Networks, Inbox – are placed prominently at the top of a user's profile page. Links to Facebook applications – Photos, Notes, Groups, Events, Posted items – are displayed on a left sidebar, along with links to third-party applications a user has added to her or his account.
Hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles have been written since 2004 about the Facebook phenomenon. The news stories below show how Facebook has come from nowhere to become extraordinarily important in journalism. This is not a list of all those articles, Rather, this annotated bibliography is a reverse-chronological list of those articles most pertinent to journalism, public relations and mass media. Each item in this bibliography has an annotation – a very brief description of what each article is about – intended to help you decide whether to read the article.
2009
- How Should Journalists Use Facebook?
Networking sites and social media like Facebook have blurred the lines of reporting ethics to many journalists.
Maya Srikrishnan, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, University of texas at Austin, 25 May 2009
- MediaWeb Minute: Facebook Transforming Journalism (a video)
For journalists, Facebook and Twitter are not just about social networking, says MarketWatch's Jon Friedman. They're a source base, too.
Jonh Friedman, Wall Street Journal, 19 March 2009
- Journalism's Old Guard vs. Generation Facebook
News organizations need to engage Generation Facebook for advice and ideas, and not resent them for doing it differently, for never having "earning their stripes" as minions at typewriters.
Pablo Manriquez, Online Journalism Review, The Knight Digital Media Center, 29 January 2009
- Facebook is Ruining Journalism
Questions are being raised about whether the increasingly standard practice of Facebook journalism is an ethical one.
Josh, Newsphobia, 20 January 2009
- Facebook Journalism
We've found that it is tremendously more powerful to get a piece of content – an article, a news clip, a video, etc – from a friend, and it makes you much more likely to watch, read, and engage with the content.
Rory O'Connor, Huffington Post, 14 January 2009
- Journalists Use Facebook to Find Sources and Promote Stories
An Easy Way to Spread the Word About Stories Published Online
Tony Rogers, About.com, 2009
2008
- NYT sees success in Facebook push
The goals of the campaign were to increase our number of Facebook fans; raise awareness of NYTimes.com as an interactive news center; and engage the Facebook community in a conversation about the election outcome.
Zachary M. Seward, Nieman Journalism Lab, Harvard University, 25 November 2008
- Who Invented Facebook?
The driving question: Whose idea was it anyway? We donÕt quite get an answer, but we do get a good story.
Elinore Longobardi, Columbia Journalism Review, 26 June 2008
- In Your Facebook
Why more and more journalists are signing up for the popular social networking site.
Kelly Wilson, American Journalism Review, February/March 2008
- How to Use Facebook
Ways in which journalists can use Facebook effectively, being aware of the pitfalls of misinformation.
The Journalism School, Columbia University, 7 January 2008
- Citizen Journalism: Facebook and the Journalist
Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook are a phenomenon unto themselves, but share many of the attributes of citizen journalism.
Knight Citizen News Network, American University School of Communication, 2008
- Citizen Journalism: Index
A mix of web reports on citizen journalism, also known as public journalism, participatory journalism, democratic journalism and grassroots journalism. It is the collecting and publication of timely, unique, nonfiction information by individuals without formal journalism training or professional affiliation – embers of the public engaging in journalism by providing news stories, news photos or video of events to news organizations.
Knight Citizen News Network, American University School of Communication, 2008
2007
- Facebook Journalism
Facebook Journalism and MySpace Journalism in which newspapers cobble together accounts, particularly involving crime stories, from data contained in a person's profiles on social networking sites.
Liz Losh, Virtualpolitik, 18 August 2007
- Facebook and journalism
Focusing on the possibilities for Facebook in terms of the news business.
Josh Wolf, Media Sphere, CNET, 1 August 2007
- Journalism and FaceBook Linking People, Ideas
Facebook: WhatÕs In It For Journalists?
Leonard Witt, Public Journalism Network, 30 July 2007
- Facebook: What's In It For Journalists?
What's in Facebook for journalists, for journalism, and for news organizations, at large?
Pat Walters, PoynterOnline at The Poynter Institute, 26 July 2007
- Why are news providers on Facebook?
Why the Washington Post is developing Facebook apps.
Oliver Luft, Journalism.co.uk, 25 July 2007
- More answers about our Facebook app and some thoughts on the techie stuff behind it
The special-projects team at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive built washingtonpost.comÕs Facebook app, The Compass.
Rob Curley, robcurley.com/Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, 21 July 2007
- News apps on Facebook
News groups looking to get onto the pages of Facebook users have busied themselves developing their own applications (apps) to feed news directly onto profiles.
Oliver Luft, Journalism.co.uk, 20 July 2007
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Second Life
News Media in SL
UNCP in SL
Machinima
Digital Storytelling
© 2009 Dr. Anthony Curtis, Mass Communication Dept., University of North Carolina at Pembroke e-mail home page
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