Electric reporter

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The Electric Reporter is a German-language television program that was broadcast on ZDFinfo from 2011 to 2016 . It provided information about new media , network culture and media skills . In the beginning, the Uebermorgen.TV section brought partly exaggerated forecasts about the information technology networked coexistence. The show was produced by Blinkenlichten Produktionen GmbH & Co. KG .

history

The broadcast began as a video podcast . Between September 2006 and June 2008 the journalist Mario Sixtus produced the series on behalf of the Handelsblatt publishing group . Current aspects of network culture were reported in irregularly published articles . The focus of the contributions was always an expert interview .

The Electric Reporter's interlocutors at this early stage included a. Brewster Kahle (founder of the Internet archive ), science fiction authors Bruce Sterling and Cory Doctorow , picture bloggers Christoph Schultheis and Stefan Niggemeier , philosopher and author David Weinberger , Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales , Creative Commons initiator Lawrence Lessig , Google Vice President Marissa Mayer , the writer Peter Glaser , and the Federal Data Protection Commissioner Peter Schaar .

The approximately ten to twenty minute episodes can be called up as HTML5 - alternatively also as Flash stream, as well as in different file formats. The films are under a Creative Commons license.

The electrical reporter has received the Grimme Online Award 2007 in the category knowledge and education.

From November 2008 the series could also be seen fortnightly on the ZDFinfokanal . Since then, the format has continued to deal with Internet topics, but has become much more magazine-like and no longer consists of individual interviews. The series is the first web video format in Germany to be adopted from traditional television.

On March 19, 2010, after a total of 24 episodes, the last edition of the Electric Reporter appeared for the time being . After a one-year break, a second pilot episode was broadcast in March 2011.

From May 2011 to July 2016, the series ran weekly, each 15 minutes long, on ZDFinfo . The episodes ran on Thursday evening and were repeated several times a week. In the last episode it was announced that longer reports would be published under the name in the future.

Pilot episodes

At the end of July 2010, Mario Sixtus announced that he would work with ZDF to produce some pilot episodes to develop a new format and publish them under a Creative Commons license . The episodes have been appearing on the Electric Reporter's website every one to two weeks since the end of September. As an additional technical experiment, all episodes are played back in a video player based on HTML5 . Six formats have been presented so far.

  • Hyperland: Hyperland sees itself as a weekly summary of what is happening on the Internet and is intended to make it easier for users of this medium to be informed about current developments. So far there have been two episodes of Hyperland.
  • Glaser's Blue Planet: Glaser's Blue Planet is a column by Peter Glaser that uses curios to paint a picture of society. So far, two episodes of Glaser's Blue Planet have appeared. The first dealt with email and email addiction; the second with difficulties in accepting and understanding new technologies.
  • Uebermorgen.TV: Uebermorgen.TV reports on innovations and tries to illustrate possible developments in the future. This is done with texts by Mario Sixtus and animations by Alexander Lehmann .
  • Compact web knowledge: Compact web knowledge presents and explains technologies and services. According to the company, the format is aimed at users with little active experience with computers and the Internet. The explanations are illustrated primarily with animations and screenshots.
  • ePolitics: ePolitics presents political decisions on the world of the Internet and political debates and movements from the Internet. The program mainly uses interviews for illustrative purposes. Viewers are also invited to participate in debates related to the broadcast. The first episode of ePolitics dealt with open data .
  • LAWBLOG.tv: In LAWBLOG.tv lawyer and blogger Udo Vetter provides an overview of legal issues relating to computers and the Internet. The only published episode so far explains the rights and obligations of employees who want to use company Internet access privately.
  • DIGIsellschaft: DIGIsellschaft deals with the effects of digitization and networking of everyday life on people and society.
  • 140 seconds: 140 seconds shows the story of a tweet or a microblogger in 2 minutes and 20 seconds .

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Imprint. Archived from the original on August 1, 2012 ; accessed on June 18, 2017 .
  2. ↑ unknown. (No longer available online.) ZDF, archived from the original on August 8, 2010 ; Retrieved March 19, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot /electric reporter.zdf.de
  3. ↑ 155: Revenge Porn, Retraining and Computer Love. In: Youtube. July 20, 2016, Retrieved June 18, 2017 (Electrical Reporter).
  4. ↑ Mario Sixtus: Laboratory weeks with the electrical reporter. Blinkenlichten productions, July 27, 2010, archived from the original on July 7, 2012 ; accessed on June 18, 2017 .