March 8th, 2011

Social Media and Journalism Today

Social media and journalism today

Social media and journalism today

The video that I am going to review this time talks about the social media had a big influence and impact on the journalism nowadays and how could back it up and help spread the word and the information all together.

This video is an interview that was made between a woman called Sebath (the interviewer) and Julia from the International University in Geneva (the interviewed).

This was actually made as a class assignment on “Video For Business Communication” which is delivered by Victor Planas-Bielsa, professor at the International University in Geneva, and founder and Producer at Art’n Visual Production.

In this video there were two main points that were discussed:

  • How can social media impact journalism?:
    Julia’s answer for this question by saying  that that social media has a great impact on the journalism and even changed its methods and the way it is introduced, as we see, people who read newspaper has decreased too much but in the other hand people who surf on the internet has dramatically increased and that what would help the journalism reach out for them and spread the word and the news. Also the social media has a big influence on the writer- reader relationship, it help the writer deliver his information in a more reader friendly way like including videos, photo, audio… which is not possible in newspaper and magazines, and that is also possible is the writer is using facebook or twitter to communicate with his reader this would bring them even closer that before indeed. Moreover,  the writer has more options to write now because I said earlier he can integrate many methods is order to deliver his message… and because of the social media, writers are getting contribution from regular people who fell in love with the journalism combined with the social media techniques.
  • Is the Social Media a Short Trend?
    Julia response was that it is the exact opposite as the game has been changed as the use of the blogs and twitter in supporting the revolutions In Tunisia, Egypt and Libya… and how the information has been delivered despite of keeping the reporters out of the country and arresting them and how all the population have become journalists and kept updating the situations in their country on their facebooks and twitter,etc which greatly helped the succes of their revolution. The informations is still flowing and continues thanks to the social media… The future of content is conversion and the flow of information is going to be much more fluid. Actually offers a good future for the news paper industry and democracy in the whole world.

And thanks to Miss Julia from Geneva we were able to have an idea about how the social media is greatly impacting our lives and the way we treat the information and you can visit the International University in Geneva Official website, follow this link:
International University in Geneva and now i shall leave you with the video.



March 8th, 2011

The Power Of Cartoons

Patrick Chappatte Cartoon - The Internet has changed music

Patrick Chappatte Cartoon - The Internet has changed music

In this article I am going to talk about the Power of Cartoon and how far It can impact our lives and relationships. In my researches I found an article that exactly talks about this sensible case put up in a divertissement way.

This short video is a one man show presented by Patrick Chappatte. He is generally speaking about how cartoon is involved in politics and war, and what are the conflicts resulted from mal-uses of this powerful tool. He also discusses how the pencil can illuminate serious issues and bring the most unlikely people together in a humorous context using comedy to get closer to the public’s hearts and be able to deliver his message to them.

Patrick Chappate has talked about serious global issues that have been the concern of our modern world for years now,  for example he talked about:

  • How the print media is dying because of the technological development, everyone is heading towards the Internet to find the information and Facebook and twitter are the first suspects in this case if you want my opinion.
  • How the world has gotten smaller because of technology and he even said that the world has become flat now due to the spread of technology, you all have foreign friends don’t you? That’s all because of the internet. Back in the early days, the only way for you to make foreign friends was to travel to other countries.
  • How the internet has empowered everybody: the worker, the student… just everybody even spies… there are many people are thrown in jail because of what they’ve written in their personal blogs, etc. I am just saying.
  • How did the internet changed the way of employment and how will bosses will look at their employee (beware of your facebook profile) and mentioning that this technology thing made people attached, well slaves is the word, for the internet and how they cannot advance without it.
  • How internet made us think that it simplified out tasks and made them very easy to do, but in reality and after thoroughly thinking you will discover that those tasks are ones that you never had to do before, like “updating your twitter?” why do you even want to let strange people who don’t even know you, notified about where are you going or what are you doing? Believe me they don’t a crap.
  • How cartoon has been involved in religious and political conflicts; just like what happened when they drew the prophet and how that caused violence and blood to be spilled along with saying that there are people are getting benefits from that: that is the typical mal-use of the cartoon.
  • How did he use cartoon to reunite people from different sides while his missions in the Ivory Coast, Lebanon and Kenia.

These were the main points that Patrick Cappatte talked about, I think you might need to check the video to have a closer look and laugh along with him, check it out:



And thanks to Mr. “Patrick Chappatte” and for people who don’t know him I should say that he is a cartoonist and for whom is curious about his background I should say he is a Lebasnes-Swiss man who is well know for drawing cartoons for the “Le Temps” , “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” and the “International Herald Tribune” newspapers, he is actually a pretty cool guy as he is from a Lebanese mother, Swiss father, born in Karchi, lived in Singapore and Switzerland… a global guy to resume. And I said thanks to him we are now aware about the power of cartoon and how it could be a double edged arm. For more information about this guy you can follow him on twitter http://twitter.com/globecartoon or visit his website http://www.globecartoon.com/.

Thanks for reading!

July 3rd, 2009

The social media revolution – social media communities

There is a huge trend happening right now its phenomenon of people connecting with each other and communicate strait with each other (social media communitiesonline and for the companies and organisations this is difficult to handle because if people take power on to themselves that’s power just taken away from institutions like cooperation’s. Companies need to get involved but are cautious about taking the first step, but I think it’s a risk for companies to not take this social community train right now. Here is a Harvard Business Interview with Josh Bernoff, vice president and principal analyst at Forrest Research.



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