Archive for the ‘Citizen journalism’ Category

Coalition of the willing

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Coalition of The Willing’ is a film that discusses how we can use new internet technologies to leverage the powers of activists, experts, and ordinary citizens in collaborative ventures to combat climate change. Through analyses of swarm activity and social ...

The media, censorship and democracy in Ecuador, UK, US

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Very relevant article about media and censorship that deals with recent events in Ecuador and Argentina but also relates that perspective to media and democracy in the US and the UK A key point ...reasonable people may differ on what is the ...

Journalism looks like this in the networked society

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 Fascinating piece on the reinvention of journalism. A blended reality approach is absolutely necessary Of course, developing an active social media presence through Twitter and a Facebook Fan Page is critical to developing a readership. But for hyper-local journalists, face-to-face community ...

The Do Lectures, the Achuar speak truth to power

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 Gregor made a powerful presentation at the Do Lectures his topic the  threat to the Amazon rain forest. Harnessing the collective intelligence of the tribe, he showcases The Atwa, who embrace the state, pens and paper, GPS mapping technology, YouTube, ...

building, fostering and interacting; the new rules of journalism

Friday, September 25th, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4463" align="aligncenter" width="491" caption="learning to manage communities can be a tricky business"][/caption] I picked this up from a Jay Rosen tweet Managing Online Communities: What Computer Games Can Teach Journalists What does MMORG's have to do with journalism? The answer according to ...

Falling out of love with mainstream media?

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 As we often argue, without trust you are nothing in this world. Now that has always been the case its just in the networked society the stakes are just that little more higher. Nearly two-thirds — 63 percent — of Americans ...

The future of journalism is err… UGC?

Thursday, September 10th, 2009 I deplore the term user generated content - it somehow brings to mind used condoms to me. I write this as because, what we call things is important as that language frames how we interpret the world around us. The Future ...

Networked economics comes to the music industry

Friday, August 7th, 2009 Richard Wray writes, It has finally sunk in that there will not be one single replacement for the ongoing drop in "physical" music sales - in other words, the perpetual decline in CD buying. Instead, a host of new services will ...

Social media but an element of Engagement

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 Tim Harrap, very kindly pointed me to lessons learn't in social media by Dirk Shaw, (Great name) Its good sound advice, common sense and obviously hard won. My view however is that Engagement as a principal co-joins social media with other ...

No Straight Lines – Why No Straight Lines

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 I work with the Think Tank Freedom Lab in Amsterdam, and I have had a fruitful relationship with The FreedomLab boys since 1995. This film is something they created from a two hour conversation about my next project, and what ...