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#SPJchat with NPR's Andy Carvin

Summary of tweets from June 2 #SPJchat with NPR Senior Strategist Andy Carvin about how he covers the Middle East using Twitter.

  1. Andy, take us through your career and how you got started with Twitter and using other social media as a journalist?
  2. acarvin
    acarvin@acarvin
    @spjchat I was actually doing comm studies as pre-law. The degree was a BS in rhetoric. Seriously. #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:13:40
  3. jskeel
    jskeel@jskeel
    Isn't rhetoric and BS the same thing? thanks...I'll be here all week. #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:15:58
  4. acarvin
    acarvin@acarvin
    @jskeel Hence why I added "seriously" to the tweet. People think I'm joking when I say that. #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:16:36
  5. acarvin
    acarvin@acarvin
    In '94 I created edwebproject.org, one of the first sites to talk about Internet access in schools.... #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:10:29
  6. acarvin
    acarvin@acarvin
    From '99 to '06, I worked with the Digital Divide Network, an online community focused on media literacy and Net access. #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:11:41
  7. acarvin
    acarvin@acarvin
    I also spent a lot of time organizing volunteers online during disasters, such as my SEPT11INFO listserv on 9-11. #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:12:11
  8. acarvin
    acarvin@acarvin
    Later I helped coordinate online volunteer efforts for the '94 tsunami, Katrina, and later the Haiti quake. #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:12:37
  9. acarvin
    acarvin@acarvin
    @spjchat I did some documentaries during school with my then-girlfriend/now-wife, but mainly I was a writer. #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:14:18
  10. acarvin
    acarvin@acarvin
    While I was working at the Digital Divide Network, I traveled to Tunisia a few times for a UN Internet policy summit... #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:20:03
  11. spjchat
    spjchat@spjchat
    RT @acarvin: So basically I've been an online community organizer for the last 17 years, and now I'm applying those skills to mideast coverage. #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:14:19

  12. What news event brought you into such focus with
    your Twitter account on the Middle East? Any one thing?

  13. acarvin
    acarvin@acarvin
    I also was an early contributor to GlobalVoices.org, and met a number of Egyptian activists and bloggers that way... #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:20:53
  14. acarvin
    acarvin@acarvin
    I ended up creating a Storify documenting the four weeks of the Tunisian revolution: http://bit.ly/gXJlBY #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:21:51
  15. acarvin
    acarvin@acarvin
    So when Tunisians began talking about protests in late December, I noticed it on Twitter and started RTing it. #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:21:14
  16. Does what you tweet ever affect you emotionally? Some of what you tweet is very graphic/disturbing.
  17. acarvin
    acarvin@acarvin
    When you've seen pics of dozens of dead kids over the last 6 months, they begin to blur. They should *never* blur. #Yemen #Syria #Libya
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 16:35:47
  18. Masriyah25
    Masriyah25@Masriyah25
    RT @acarvin: In some ways the real-time RTing of fighting is the worst, because I get to experience the panic/fear of my sources as it happens. #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:47:23
  19. spjchat
    spjchat@spjchat
    RT @acarvin: Also a number of my sources in Tripoli simply vanished two months ago. Internet access was cut then, but it's still nerve wracking. #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:46:00
  20. HKH77
    HKH77@HKH77
    RT @acarvin: You can listen to the obit I did for Mo Nabbous on NPR here: n.pr/lOgUZu #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:45:01
  21. acarvin
    acarvin@acarvin
    @btballenger I just returned from vacation in FL. Apart from a few tweets about sources getting arrested, I stayed offline. #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:46:57
  22. A heartbreaking reminder of what the Syrian regime does (warning: gruesome image) twitpic.com/560oq5 (via @acarvin)
    NickKristof@NickKristof
    ·
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 13:22:04
  23. How do you handle rumors and corrections?
  24. acarvin
    acarvin@acarvin
    @spjchat My last few tweets tried to address that. I work with my tweeps to separate fact from fiction. #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:54:16
  25. acarvin
    acarvin@acarvin
    @spjchat: My Twitter acct is newsgathering, a work-in-progress, a documentation of the process. #spjchat
    Thu, Jun 02 2011 18:54:41

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