I walked over to the UT Potters Club sale on Monday. As you can see in the pictures, the club sells various types of ceramics made by members of the club to raise money for the club. I did an interview with the president of the club and two people browsing the sale items. In the linked file below, you will find the three interviews and 28 pictures from the event. Your task is to write a 250-300 word story about the event. You can use the pictures for description.
Everything you need for the assignment is right here. (Control+Click and choose “Save as”)
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The upcoming issue of New Media and Society will feature an article written by myself and a number of other Ohio State grads. The article, entitled The Political Use of YouTube in the 2008 election, was written with Ivan Dylko (University of New Mexico), Michael Beam (Washington State University) and Kristen Landreville (University of Wyoming) and is a content analysis of the most popular political videos on YouTube during the 2008 election cycle.
The goals of this study are to explore several claims about the democratizing potential of the Internet and to extend gatekeeping theory into user-generated content (UGC) domain. A quantitative content analysis of the most popular YouTube political news videos during the 2008 presidential election was conducted to investigate the degree to which nonelites were able to partake in mainstream public discourse. We found that elites dominated first and second filters (news sourcing and news production) in the flow of online news, while nonelites dominated the third filter (news distribution). These results suggest that an update to the traditional gatekeeping model is needed to reflect the realities of today’s user-driven communication environment.
I’ll post a link once it is available.
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ContentAnalysis, OSU, research, youtube