1. ‘We Media’ and Citizen
Journalism

2. What are the news
headlines today?
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3. Who decides?

4. • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
• http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/
• http://uk.yahoo.com/
• http://uk.reuters.com/news/world

5. Some alternative views…
• Insurgency Watch:
http://www.insurgencywatch.com/about/
• Healing Iraq: http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/
• Indymedia: http://www.indymedia.org/en/
• McSpotlight:
http://www.mcspotlight.org/help.html
• Ohmynews: http://english.ohmynews.com/

6. Clay Shirky
‘How social media can make history’
http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cell
phones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.ht
ml
Morozov: the opposing view
http://blog.ted.com/2009/09/22/how_the_inter
ne/