Questions about Twitter

1.   Which of the positive points he made reflect what Michael Wesch has said about YouTube?

 He says that it is an incredible vice for information, rivaling Google, people can distribute information at the click of a button and it is then accessible to an infinite audience. Also because it is user generated there is more variation. Wesch and Rusbridger both indulge in the ideology that the sites are revolutionary in the sense that it is where things happen first, news is broke on twitter e.g. Superinjuctions, and new  trends begin on youtube, e.g. Numa Numa guy. Rusbridger states that Twitter is a 'formidable aggregation tool' that cannot be challenged by 'old media' , it would be impossible for even a team of journalists to report the same quantity and quality of information that is distributed by the masses via tweets. Marketing - you have an audience with an expressed interest in your area of work which makes marketing easy. Feedback instantaneously.

2.    What were the negative aspects of Twitter identified by Rusbridger?

Inane conversations, negative stereotypes reinforced by the garbage talk that occurs on both sites. It is reductive, taking depth, meaning and power away from a topic. It doesn't self verify, empty facts can be globally distributed without foundations of truth:"The downside of Twitter also means that the full weight of the world's attention can fall on a single unstable piece of information." It can be distracting, indiscriminate and overwhelming.

3.   Henry Jenkins in convergence Culture talks about the coexistence of ‘old’ and ‘new’ media. Why is this significant when considering the impact of Twitter?

Old media can exploit twitter, using tweets in magazine, stories based solely upon twitter which can be new every hour/day/week as the site is continuously changing. An example of Twitter becoming globally newsworthy is the exposing of Superinjuction celebrities, whereby the information about the story is not able to be distributed by any media associations because of the nature of the case, but they are able to report that the information has been....

Max Mosley case - Newspaper bosses say imposing "pre-publication notification" to toughen the "right to private life" would have breached the "right to freedom of expression".