2012 Elections
Top social media journalists talk about social media and the election
Storify hosted a national online conversation Thursday night pulling in top social media news experts. All the questions were fielded live from Twitter. You can keep the conversation going with the hashtag #socialvote.
What relevant role will social media play in the election? See what top social media journalists said in Storify's Google Hangout via this YouTube video:
Our panelists:
- Liz Heron, director of social media and engagement, The Wall Street Journal. On Twitter, @lheron
- Craig Kanalley, senior editor, Huffington Post. On Twitter, @ckanal
- Alex Howard, Washington correspondent, O'Reilly Media. On Twitter, @digiphile
- Brian Ries, senior editor, Newsweek and The Daily Beast. On Twitter, @moneyries
- Ryan Beckwith, political editor, Digital First Media. On Twitter, @ryanbeckwith
- Mallary Tenore, managing editor, Poynter.org. On Twitter, @mallarytenore
- Storify co-founder Burt Herman led the conversation among top social media journalists.
Memes - inane, or the pulse of the nation?
- Are memes shallow pop phenomena of social media -- or can they reflect larger issues and take the pulse of the electorate? The answer, our panelists and audience felt, is a little of both.
Q: How can #socialvote go beyond memes to cover the election? A: By going beyond "coverage" #WeThePeople =define= the election #OpenGov
Memes are powerful tools for steering the direction of the conversation. Where do they originate is good quest? #socialvote
@Storify @burtherman Are political journalists more focused on the meme rather than analyzing what it means, i.e. binders line? #socialvote
.@moneyries @storify, funniest thing I've seen in forever is bill Clinton's "did somebody say binders full of women?" #socialvote
@lheron Can you talk RE: this "Twitter narrative"? And how things like a #bindersfullofwomen meme can influence coverage? #socialvote- On the night of the first presidential debate, users deluged Twitter with 208,000 tweets - about Big Bird.
Social journalists as real-time fact-checkers
- Candy Crowley's interjection in the latest presidential debate set a precedent for journalists as real-time fact-checkers. Is that a valuable role -- and a realistic one?
- Journalists shud be armed with facts, fully informed and note potential inaccuracies on twitter like #Sunlight does. #socialvote
Don't be a stenographer – add context! Thanks, @LHeron (who adds that "fact-checking is a difficult enterprise.") #SocialVote- Panelist Alex Howard reaches out to another well-known social journalist, Andy Carvin of NPR.
@acarvin Hey - how did using Twitter to #factcheck the #debates go? Have you or @EricCarvin had success here on Twitter? #socialvote
@digiphile It made more sense four years ago since few people on Twitter were pro fact-checkers. #socialvote
@acarvin @digiphile Q: Surely this is a problem that live television has had to deal with for a long time. What do they do? #socialvote
James HobosCool coverage folks2013-02-07T09:56:00.248Z- ernestomakackaLoving these hangouts2012-11-13T06:37:45.206Z
- werlenkoInteresting2012-10-18T11:25:18.363Z
