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Mojo and the mobile journalism revolution
Abstract
This chapter introduces the concept of mojo, a unique form of video-making created on a mobile phone, and suggests it can empower a wide range of people. Via sophisticated apps, user-generated content can be made into user-generated stories, and these assembled into user-generated programs. The key is training, and the adoption of an appropriate mindset or way of thinking. The chapter explains why mojo is important, provides a short history of this form of newsgathering, and concludes with discussion of why media companies around the world are embracing video (as well as suggesting that mojo is the best form of video they can adopt).
... As various social media platforms are constantly thinking of ways to turn live-video into one of their core audience and revenue focuses, various social video live broadcasting tools, such as Facebook Live, Instagram Live and Periscope, are thus said to pressure the traditional TV industry to find solutions to counter audience fragmentation, implement innovation and incorporate technologies (Garc ıa-Perdomo 2020). Similarly, live-news video has become a desirable component in today's news product, since it helps to capture the public's attention, but also since advertisers prefer their advertisements associated with video (Newman 2017;Quinn 2015). Yet, research on how exactly digital technology is used in today's live-video news coverage, how it meets the challenges that are set by the current professional TV news production routine in the era of media mobility, and to what effect, remains scarce. ...
... If satellite live-news broadcasting thus requires four or five personnel (i.e., a field producer, a reporter, a camera person, a sound recordist and the satellite service operator), operating LiveU's LU600, for example, requires only a reporter and a camera person, or even a single operator (e.g., when the LiveU Solo that is designed to broadcast live on social media is at hand). In some eventualities (e.g., when entering a scene with professional gear is banned, or sometimes when reporting from abroad), live coverage can also be achieved by reporters/camera persons via a LiveU app on a mobile device; even though such options are considered less reliable, these are also now used in various ways by professionals in the very making of news (see, e.g., Quinn 2015;Westlund 2013;Lavoie 2012), who sometimes resort to whatever technology is available to go live. ...
... On the other hand, today, when everything is visually documented over mobile devices, and the transmission of audio/video materials is swift and relatively smooth. And with the LiveU multi-point option, for example, by the use of which live footage can potentially come in, from almost anywhere in the world where there is a working LiveU device, via pre-adjusted receiving channels, traditional TV news broadcasters are constantly receiving materials from various sources (e.g., the Police, Paramedics, independent mobile journalists, mobloggers or just from citizens at the scene, who are taking a more interactive role in various news events nowadays (see, e.g., Umair 2016;Quinn 2015;Cameron 2011;David 2010). The result of this is that professional camera persons can now be "reserved" for more special assignments (e.g., long magazine shoots), and the overall allocation of TV crews and reporters is easier to handle. ...
This paper sets out to provide fresh insight into the case of liveness in news media by exploring a particular live-news technology – LiveU’s digital, cellular-based, live broadcast technology, and its implementation in professional TV news broadcasting. Based on a thematic analysis of in-depth interviews with nine TV news and LiveU’s professionals, the findings point to various interconnections between LiveU’s technology and certain professional actors through a variety of editorial, business and technological decision-making processes and activities that constitute live-news broadcasting. Essentially, the case of LiveU and its implementation in professional TV live-news broadcasting illustrate the intersection of news mobility and the production of news from a socio-technical standpoint.
Journalism schools are under pressure to look beyond traditional teaching methods to prepare students for the post-Internet, rapidly evolving news landscape. Heutagogy is a net-centric teaching method in which learners are highly autonomous and self-determined. In this article, Participatory Action Research theory was applied within a heutagogical framework to the redevelopment of a social media course for journalism students at AUT University, New Zealand. The findings form the basis of recommendations across the wider journalism curriculum, and there are also implications for other areas of communication studies, public relations, and online or broadcast media.
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