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Citizen Journalism
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What is citizen journalism? It's an opportunity for you to get involved in producing the news, instead of just reading it or watching it on TV.There's a growing sentiment that one reason newspapers are losing so many readers is that they're unapproachable, arrogant and insistent that only they have information worth passing on.
PressThink
Top Ten Ideas of '04: Open Source Journalism, Or "My Readers Know More Than I Do."
The audience always knew more, but it didn't have a network for pulling its scattered self together. An atomized public needed the journalist to know for it. That's how we got a professionalized press. Now Gillmor says his readers know more than he does. Open Source journalism builds on that insight.
It was always true that the readership of the San Jose Mercury News knew more than the editors and writers employed by the Merc. But so what? There was no way the readers could awaken and mobilize that knowledge or use it to inform themselves. There was no easy way for them to communicate horizontally (also called peer-to-peer) in order to share and sift what they knew.
The audience always knew more than the journalist about a great many things, but it didn’t have a network for pulling its scattered self together. The public needed the press to know for it. These are the foundations of a professionalized press.
That was then. Gillmor saw, long before others in his profession, that once an effective horizontal network (the Web) arrived, professional journalism had a natural competitor. It’s not that blogs will suddenly rise up and “replace” the traditional media in the market to inform the public.
It’s that blogging is only one part of a larger development........
Note: There will be more discussion about this trend and the direction of the Rogers Park Review in the next few days.
Citizen Journalism
Chi Town Daily News
What is citizen journalism? It's an opportunity for you to get involved in producing the news, instead of just reading it or watching it on TV.There's a growing sentiment that one reason newspapers are losing so many readers is that they're unapproachable, arrogant and insistent that only they have information worth passing on.
PressThink
Top Ten Ideas of '04: Open Source Journalism, Or "My Readers Know More Than I Do."
The audience always knew more, but it didn't have a network for pulling its scattered self together. An atomized public needed the journalist to know for it. That's how we got a professionalized press. Now Gillmor says his readers know more than he does. Open Source journalism builds on that insight.
It was always true that the readership of the San Jose Mercury News knew more than the editors and writers employed by the Merc. But so what? There was no way the readers could awaken and mobilize that knowledge or use it to inform themselves. There was no easy way for them to communicate horizontally (also called peer-to-peer) in order to share and sift what they knew.
The audience always knew more than the journalist about a great many things, but it didn’t have a network for pulling its scattered self together. The public needed the press to know for it. These are the foundations of a professionalized press.
That was then. Gillmor saw, long before others in his profession, that once an effective horizontal network (the Web) arrived, professional journalism had a natural competitor. It’s not that blogs will suddenly rise up and “replace” the traditional media in the market to inform the public.
It’s that blogging is only one part of a larger development........
Note: There will be more discussion about this trend and the direction of the Rogers Park Review in the next few days.
posted by gf at 5:47 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks for the PressThink link, interesting!
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