Secure communications

Why?

Snowden

Wikileaks

Legislative Summary of Bill C 51

Craig Forcese   New Book: False Security

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression

How Bill C51 Changes things

• kinetic power
• Formerly CSIS could only gather info, RCMP acted
• Mess you up
• Diffuse, Disrupt, and destroy 
• Broad interpretation of "activities that undermine the security of Canada"

• pipeline protesters
• First Nations activists
• Eco folks
• Anything that looks vaguely Muslim

Media freedom not absolute, court hears as RCMP seeks reporter’s notes https://t.co/dXIjFCuHmr

— Ring of Truth (@ggatin) March 29, 2016

Lots of sharing of private information between government service without permission or warrant http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/several-agencies-using-information-sharing-provisions-in-bill-c-51-1.2830576

No need for conventional processes warrant-less collection and sharing of information. 

• "reasonable cause"
• Spidy senses
• No warrant
• 7 day hold

Data Hygiene 

Personal Security Basics

• Commerce https VPN
• Browsing TOR
• Email Protonmail
• SMS Signal
• Social Media hmmm

Security Self Defense 

Activists

• Cryptoparty

In Journalism

How many use it in Canada? Canadaland Survey

Since then...

Secure Drop

Encryption for journalists

Class 9: Ethics and Law

Rights and responsibilities

Codes of conduct

• every news agency and MSM outlet has one
• loosely followed

Legal precedent

• Lawsuits, mostly for defamation
• Supreme Court of Canada.
• Gawker vs the Hulk!
• State agencies exerting control
• because terrism
• criminal behavior

Common practice

• How we have always done it

Changes
Mortgage holders do not make good investigative journalists
Stateless journalism

The trouble with unnamed sources.
New York Times

This phrase should trigger most BS detectors.

"Unnamed sources speaking on condition of anonymity have suggested..."

Video demo

My goofy video

Tech options for mid-term project.

Pecha Kucha

20 slides, 20 seconds of narration per slide.

Prezi

Knovio



YouTube

Wikipedia

Ethics and the Law

Doxing

Data Visualization

Digital environments make it possible to use multimedia to amplify a message. If a picture paints a 1000 words, a 5 minute YouTube Video paints 10,000, words.
Humans use visualizations to help explain and predict behaviors in their world. Journalism has always employed graphs and charts and images to support and carry stories. Digital tools support and extend that function.

Some visualizations are as artistic as they are informative.

Have you seen these ~40 amazing @Wikipedia visualizations? https://t.co/30QESnW21Q
The possibilities are ~endless! https://t.co/lVVz8fTzch

— Hatnote (@hatnotable) November 29, 2015

Two common data visualization tools that we will explore in this class are maps and timelines.

Maps
Journalists use many web based mapping applications but Google mapping applications are ubiquitous in journalism.
Google Earth and Google maps use geo-spatial information from the Global Information system. Much of this information comes from satellite imagery and plotting. Again, as with most Googley things, user-generated content contributes substantially to the application and practice has emerged from use patterns. The cognitive surplus is unleashed!

Timelines
The Knight school has developed and share a Timeline tool that works with Google Sheets. Step by step instructions are here.

Podcasting

This is the audio file on Vocaroo.

Record and upload audio >>

Here is the recording stored on the Iinternet Archive

Lecture 7: Digital Audio and Broadcast Journalism

Broadcast journalism has changed as much as print journalism.

One of the first things I teach my students is: "Online, the simplest way to add value is to save the user time."That...
Posted by Jay Rosen on Tuesday, March 1, 2016

To look at the changes it may be useful to consider radio and television broadcasting separately, starting with radio.

One characteristic of the digital shift is disaggregation. Breaking things down in to component parts. Concatenation is chaining disaggregated components together to create something new.

Like newspapers, legacy radio has shifted online. Analog radio is still available but is evolving.

CBC Saskatchwan 540. The lower the number the bigger the signal. Had a tower at Watrous, Sask that reached the whole province. FM signals disperse over distance so the listener must be closer to the signal.
Most CBC Radio or Radio Canada shows are available for live streaming or podcast. Let's people time shift and  control their listening experience.

 Radio journalism covers similar beats but stories can have a different forma and emphasis.

 Usually shorter but not always.

#BU30240 https://t.co/VUqrtLq2yY

— Ring of Truth (@ggatin) March 1, 2016

Digital radio options for everyone. Anyone can be a journalism, anyone can be a broadcaster. As Shiry demonstrated, Here Comes Everybody. Radio used to be an expensive proposition with respect to delivery mechanism, you needed studios, towers, radio bands, journalists, editors, etc.
Now it is essentially free.

 Live Digital Broadcasting or Streaming
 Mixlr.
 BlogTalk Radio

Podcasting Technicals
Vocaroo
Audacity
Internet Archive
SoundCloud
Screamer Radio