Participatory Journalism and Education
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Participatory journalism
Participatory journalism
08/16/2004 11:52 AMParticipatory (or citizen) journalism is getting a lot of
coverage at the moment, thanks in part to Dan Gillmor's new book We the Media. For a great
example of participatory journalism in action, check out Wikipedia's
outstanding coverage of the 2004
Summer Olympics. It's already a serious competitor to the official
site in terms of content, and its wiki nature means it will only
get better as the games continue. Hat tip: Gadgetopia.
I've been a fan of Wikipedia's current affairs
coverage for quite a while. The site is especially useful in
catching up with ongoing stories, in particular for detailed profiles
of people and groups currently making the news (random example: Muqtada
al-Sadr). Despite the site's open nature (or maybe because of it),
they generally do an excellent job of keeping to a ne
utral point of view.
Citizen journalism is unlikely to ever replace traditional
journalism completely, but it can certainly enhance it. Then again,
with OhMyNews now one of the
most influential media outlets in Korea (see this interview for details) this is
one trend that's not going to go away.
Participatory, Partisan Journalism
Participatory, Partisan Journalism
01/16/2004 01:00 PMBloggerStorm
is one of the more interesting developments in participatory
journalism in a long time. It's an aggregation of weblogs covering the
Iowa presidential caucuses, kind of a human-operated equivalent of
Google News capturing a narrow topic.
Participatory Journalism and Janet
Jackson
Participatory Journalism and Janet
Jackson
02/10/2004 02:41 AMAdrian Holovaty, lead developer for the excellent
community news site in Lawrence
Kansas,
reflects
on his blog about how he got real information about the Janet
Jackson fiasco not from the networks but from the
Web.
"Yes, probably not a single one of the Fark
contributors was actually at the Super Bowl, and all of their facts
were collected from "mainstream" sources such as the CBS television
broadcast. So what? Even two days later, this is STILL coverage you
can't find at any big-media site. And who's to say a
photo-phone-toting Super Bowl attendee couldn't have
contributed?"
Fascinating story.
Participatory journalism has long roots
Participatory journalism has long roots
06/03/2004 06:35 PMNewspapers and Technology,CO-1 hour ago ... On the Web, you can get
your local news in numerous ways: MyYahoo, Google, or if you are in
South Korea, OhmyNews.com, which, according to We Media, attracts 2
...
AOL's Worthy Struggles with
Participatory Journalism
AOL's Worthy Struggles with
Participatory Journalism
01/16/2004 01:00 PMInteresting take by
Mark Glaser on
AOL's ongoing experiments with blogging, citizen journalism and the
like. I hope they keep working on it and succeed.
Wikipedia as Participatory Journalism:
Reliable Sources? Metrics for evaluating
collaborative media as a news resource
Wikipedia as Participatory Journalism:
Reliable Sources? Metrics for evaluating
collaborative media as a news resource
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Boston.com / News / Education / Higher
education / UMass president criticizes
student's column on felled soldier
Boston.com / News / Education / Higher
education / UMass president criticizes
student's column on felled soldier
04/30/2004 09:20 AMUMass president criticizes student's column .. Boston Globe ..
hammer:
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Participatory Media Paper
Participatory Media Paper
04/27/2004 10:26 AMSteve Rubel finds a whitepaper by IBM called Media and Entertainment
2010 (PDF). He rightly points out that the declining costs of
production for user generated content and its effects is already
happening with weblogs. The paper defines a business...
"Participatory Culture Foundation"
"Participatory Culture Foundation"
04/16/2005 02:52 AMParticipatory Culture Foundation
Participatory Culture Foundation
04/15/2005 04:51 AMannouncement .. PCF
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Social Network Dynamics and
Participatory Politics
Social Network Dynamics and
Participatory Politics
04/12/2004 11:38 AMI wikified my draft Social Network Dynamics and Participatory Politics
chapter, part of the forthcoming O'Reilly book on Extreme Democracy. I
hope this simple contribution evolves openly. Editors Jon Lebkowsky
and Mitch Ratcliffe already posted their draft Introduction by
blog,Jay...
Participatory culture: Downhill Battle's
TV-killing software project
Participatory culture: Downhill Battle's
TV-killing software project
04/13/2005 03:19 PMCory Doctorow:
Downhill Battler Tiffiniy Cheng writes, "The Downhill Battle team
formed a new funded nonprofit called the Participatory Culture
Foundation last fall and today we're announcing our first new project
and biggest project ever -- an open source, open standard video
platform for making your own video channel and watching the thousands
and eventually millions of video channels out there. We're so excited
at the prospect of building tools so that people can watch high
quality, full screen, independent videos with an experience similar to
watching television while the explosion of independent videos happens
simultaneously. Please check out our
announcement
to start paving a way to getting videos on your desktop."
Downhill Battle is the sharpest new activist group I've seen in years
-- net-savvy, savagely funny, strategically sound. Check this out.
Link
(Thanks, Tiffiniy!)
ESP Journalism
ESP Journalism
07/28/2004 09:54 PMAt 8:50 this evening, CJAD, 800 on your AM dial, reported that John
Edwards accepted the party nomination and recounted what he said in
his speech. Only problem: It's now 9:50 and Edwards has yet to give
his speech. Apparently, Canadian Press jumped the gun with the
transcript - explicitly embargoed - circulated by the Democratic PR
folks, and CJAD ran with it. Not surprisingly, it made the top listing
at Google News....
Innovations in Journalism
Innovations in Journalism
02/16/2004 01:22 PMMaking the bold leap from merely waiting for Leander Kahney to watch
Blogdex as this link rises, I'm actually going...
Fairness in journalism
Fairness in journalism
06/05/2005 11:47 PMThere's an
interview with author Michael Pollan (he wrote the highly regarded
The Botany of Desire, which I have yet to read) on AlterNet.
The teaser indicates the piece is all about food and the environment,
but most of it ends up being about journalism, including this good
bit:
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal;
fairness, however, is not. Fairness forces you -- even when you're
writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as
I have done -- to make sure you represent the other side as
extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.
Many blog evangelists point to the success of blogs, many of which
are about as far from objective as you can get, as evidence that
objectivity isn't required in telling a story, sharing a viewpoint, or
in the search for truth. But it's important to keep Pollan's thoughts
about fairness in mind before we throw the fairness baby out with the
objectivity bath-water. So be subjective, but be fair also...you'll
find you may get more mileage out of your arguments that way.
Hurricane Journalism
Hurricane Journalism
09/10/2004 12:43 PM
"Conditions are deteriorating, Dwight!"
Herald writer's comprehensive guide to Hurricane Journalism. Very
important reading for storm-chasing reporters, especially now, as
Ivan the Terrible sets its eye on Jamaica, Cuba, and Florida.
Found via
CapitalWeather.
Also check out
CaribPundit for Ivan updates and reminiscences
of island hurricanes.
(Ivan the Terrible? Eye? Get it?
Eh? Eh? Yeah, I didn't think it was funny on Fox News
either.) New Journalism Panel
New Journalism Panel
02/10/2004 02:51 AMI something going on that is changing the journalist role? How do we
do this better? Dan: On my right, is Jeff Jarvis, but I won't go into
that any further. Jay Rosen Teach-ins should teach us things, the
most...
"Webl0gs in Journalism"
"Webl0gs in Journalism"
01/26/2004 09:50 PMBloggers vs. Journalism
Bloggers vs. Journalism
02/01/2005 09:48 PMMieto Marinadi talks about how a column by
Matt
i Wuori in Iltalehti is asking if blogs could be journalism and
whether they will overrun the traditional media. I think the fact
that the question is being asked now shows clearly how much Finland is
not a front-runner in the information society game. In fact,
this question is not even asked yet by journalists, but a lawyer.
You see, PressThink says the conversation on this subject is already over.
But in order to overrun media, there has to be first a Finnish blog
that has something to say in a way that is interesting and new. I
much enjoy the writings of Sedis, for example, and I am
expecting much from Haltia (and some other political
bloggers), now that the Helsinki City Council is starting its work.
The new Finland for Thought (in
English) keeps also asking important questions, and Kari
Haakana is probably the foremost journalistic blogger in Finland.
At the moment, Sami
Köykkä of Pinseri and Alex Nieminen of sukellus.fi are
arguably the most influential bloggers in Finland.
But this is not enough. I don't know whether it's even a good
start. Most of the "internet discussion" in Finland is done
in the scary, yet boring discussion boards of magazines, such as
Iltalehti, Iltasanomat, Vauva-lehti, etc, and it is pretty much
failing to impact anything. There is little danger to any sort of
professional journalism from these discussion boards, who mostly just
consist of rehashing the same arguments all over again. The USENET has been
in existence for twenty years, and every time I go there, I see the
same discussions but with different people. Or sometimes with the
same people. It makes you wonder whether these discussion boards ever
contributed something to anything, other than in the sense of community creation.
To me, blogs are different from the discussion boards because they
are individualistic. A news group is usually referred to by its name,
say "the people in sfnet.keskustelu.ihmissuhteet say
that...". Similarly in a bulletin board: "Hey, I found this
from Vauva-lehti..." On the discussion board, you lose yourself
and become a part of a bigger crowd, all shouting at the same time.
But a blog is attached to a real person (except for some weir
dos who can't seem to be able to decide whether they exist or
not). Therefore, whatever a blog says carries more gravity than a
random rambling on a news board. It is essentially your own
personal publication, and the comments are only a side story -
much like "from the readers" -sections on newspapers.
Therefore, bloggers are not a community, any more than newspapers are.
Some bloggers form communities, yes, but blogs are far too good a
ground for egocentrism for communities to
become prevalent.
The reason that I find blogs interesting is that they might
be the avenue to a real way for individuals (particularly
non-journalists and non-politicians) to influence local and national
decision-making; the real "information society" that
the
...
Martyrs for the cause of journalism
Martyrs for the cause of journalism
07/26/2004 07:21 AMThey outraged an advertiser, pissed off the publisher or fell afoul of
right- or left-wing political correctness. Now these articles killed
by major magazines and newspapers have found new life.
When the Journalism Itself Was the Bad
News
When the Journalism Itself Was the Bad
News
12/22/2004 01:06 AMO PIOR do jornalismo americano em
2004
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Lazy Journalism
Lazy Journalism
12/17/2003 08:29 AMRichard
Forno has done a good job of extolling the virtues of security in
Mac OS X. This comes after PC Magazine columnist Lance Ulanoff
reported a vulnerability in Mac OS X and went on to write
a long and inflammatory
tirade about how Mac OS X is no more secure than the Windows OS,
and anyone who disagreed was a Mac zealot.
Printing stuff like this is guaranteed to cause a stir in the Mac
community, and as sure as eggs are eggs, the Slashdot crowd responded
in
true
acerbic fashion. What really bugs me is the lazy journalists who
print this stuff.
Time after time you get a 'technology' journalist who finds material a
bit thin on the ground (or are too lazy to write anything newsworthy)
and have a go at Apple and/or the Apple community by writing an overly
aggressive or inflammatory article. Why? The primary concern, I guess,
being to draw in huge traffic from the offended Apple community
websites and somehow earn respect of the Windows crowd by bashing one
of their rivals.
Jack Schofield from
Guardian Online is a
prime example. I've no doubt he's a respected 'technology' journalist
for a number of years, but his anti-Apple posts on
onlineblog (a weblog run by the
Guardian Online team) only serve to expose his laziness and spoil an
otherwise good read.
Off the Grid Journalism
Off the Grid Journalism
03/06/2004 01:52 AMWhen a writer dissents from it, or departs from it, the master
narrative is a very real thing. Here are two examples: one from
politics, one from music.
Reverse Journalism
Reverse Journalism
03/23/2005 01:22 PMYesterday I had a long talk about the search competition between
Google and MSN. That competition is interesting, but so was the
conversation, and what I can say about it. I was talking to a journo
from a big-name mag that you see on every newsstand. He’d just been
briefed by one of the search titans and wanted some insight from an
independent search expert. The briefing was along the lines of
“We’re gonna kill ’em dead because of X, Y, and Z” and he
wanted my take on X, Y, and Z. Here’s the problem: X, Y, and Z are
real interesting, and in particular it’s interesting that the vendor
who’d briefed him thought they were important. But you know, I
don’t think I can ethically say who the reporter was and who briefed
him and what X, Y, and Z are, even though these are things that the
vendor was trying to get published; because I didn’t think to ask
the journo. Hmm, looks like I
covered this ground
once already, in August of 2003.
Backchannel Journalism
Backchannel Journalism
05/22/2004 12:30 PMJournalists have their sources, but usually have to find new sources
for new stories that don't reveal themselves while on the
investigative trail. One tool they use is Profnet, an expert system
for journalists. I have been on the expert...
Stand Alone journalism
Stand Alone journalism
06/25/2004 01:34 PMStanding
room
Like some other well-known bloggers before her, Chris Nolan is working on
turning her blog into more of a revenue-generati
ng business. I like Chris's stuff, even as I sometimes disagree
with it, because it's sharp and unpredictable and rooted in her years
of experience as a reporter, and so I wish her well in her efforts to
sell ads and subscriptions.
Lord knows it's not an easy road. Reading Chris's manifesto for
"Stand-Alone Journalism" -- she argues that's a better label for what
she does than "blogging" -- brought me back to some distant memories
from the dawn of the Web. After learning HTML and participating in the
San Franciso Free Press experiment,
I thought to myself, hey, there's nothing to stop me from starting my
own publication on the Web!
So I did. In January 1995 I took a week's
vacation time from my job at the SF Examiner and published a site. I
focused on what was then quaintly known as "multimedia"; I called it
Kludge, as a nod to its essential clumsiness and improvised nature,
and I posted an issue. This was years before personal content
management software, needless to say; it's all just cruddy hand-coded
HTML and crude self-designed graphics. But the articles weren't so bad
(hey, here's an interview with Marc
Canter! Here's a satirical take on
the CD-ROM explosion/implosion!).
What I quickly realized was that, as much fun as writing, editing
and designing all that material was -- bringing me back as it did to
my teenage roots in mimeograph publishing -- it was just the beginning
of getting a Web site going. If I was serious about making it
something more than a labor of love -- if I wasn't going to do all
that work on my vacation days -- I'd need to figure out how to get
people to visit the site, and how to sell ads, and so forth. My best
efforts involved dumping a pile of flyers in the lobby of a multimedia
conference at Moscone Center. (While I was doing that, a couple of
guys named Jerry Yang and Dave Filo stood at a booth under a big Yahoo
banner, giving away T-shirts.)
After briefly toying with the notion of applying to AOL's
Greenhouse program for funding, I thought, nah. When David Talbot
started talking about a new publication he wanted to create, I helped
persuade him that he should do it on the Web instead of in print.
Salon turned out to be a great place for me to write and edit and
build Web sites without having to wear all the hats myself (though
there have certainly been times during the last decade when my pate
has felt a little crowded).
Today, would-be "Stand-Alone Journalists" can rely on much better
software tools to create and publish their work. They can plug into
far better organized online networks to spread the word of their
activities. And they can even turn to simple plug-in approaches to
advertising, like AdWords or BlogAds, to try to bring in some cash.
But being a "Stand-Alone Journalist" still requires a combination of
journalistic and entrepreneurial traits that's rare. Being a good
journalist requires the ability to not mind pissing people off
sometimes (Nolan, whose career has had its share of controversy, is no shirker in this regard); being a
good entrepreneur demands the ability to charm people as often as
possible. Both pursuits, of course, demand persistence, patience, and,
in the face of indifference, a stubborn belief in the value of one's
undertaking.
When I read Nolan's proposed label for the solo-blogger-journalist,
the first thing that popped into my mind was the famous quote from
Ibsen's Dr. Stockman in "Enemy of the People": "The strongest man in
the world is the one who stands most alone." Standing alone has many
wonderful advantages -- it's a stirring posture. But remember what
happens to old Dr. Stockman: He is right to blow the whistle about the
polluting of his town's waters, but he's dreadfully naive about the
world around him, he's ultimately ineffective, and he fails to
accomplish much besides his own martyrdom.
So I'm not sure the "Stand-Alone Journalist" label is one that will
stick. The linked nature of the Web is ultimately even more important
than the independence of the blogger. Standing alone is useless
without being connected.
[Scott
Rosenberg]
Jay on whether 9/11 changed journalism
Jay on whether 9/11 changed journalism
08/14/2004 08:22 AMJay has blogged an atypical piece that is typically brilliant. He
asks: Did 9/11 change journalism? Should it have? What story do
journalists tell themselves about their role in the "war on
terrorism"? Are journalists who inform citizens of the most powerful
and influentual nation in the world participants in the war on terror,
in the worldwide struggle for democracy, freedom and markets, because
their country is a participant—the biggest by far—and they
inform it? Don't miss the discussion in the comments. I only have a
simple-minded answer to the question Jay poses in his nuanced post:
9/11 should have...
funding journalism
funding journalism
10/29/2003 12:31 PM Blogger
Joshua Micah
Marshall solicits funding so he can cover the Howard Dean campaign
in New Hampshire.
Readers respond with nearly $5,000 in 24 hours. See? You
CAN buy that kind of coverage.
that bad journalism thing
that bad journalism thing
06/15/2004 03:18 PMi think it's the Tribune's way of saying they think nobody read
Choire's NYT piece
a primer on how not to do journalism
a primer on how not to do journalism
05/31/2004 02:30 AMscathing self-rebuke .. Editor & Publisher .. this E&P piece ..
credibility
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Tough Guy Journalism More in Vogue in LA
Tough Guy Journalism More in Vogue in LA
01/07/2004 03:12 PMTim Rutten of the LA Times has big problems with the new ombudsman at
the New York Times. Rutten's objections put public editor Daniel
Okrent on the couch. "Narcissism" is the charge.
"Online Journalism Review"
"Online Journalism Review"
09/16/2004 03:30 AMInternet, Journalism and Ethics
Internet, Journalism and Ethics
08/11/2004 05:08 PMMark Glaser (Online Journalism Review): . On the Wild,
Woolly Internet, Old Ethics Rules Do
Apply
"Online Journalism Awards"
"Online Journalism Awards"
11/19/2003 03:55 AMOffshoring Hits Journalism
Offshoring Hits Journalism
08/10/2004 10:24 AMWashington Post: Reuters to Move Editorial Jobs From U.S. and Europe to India.
Financial news service Reuters Group PLC said yesterday it will
eliminate up to 20 editorial positions in the United States and Europe
and hire up to 60 replacements in India in a move aimed at cutting
costs.
mcdonald's and brand journalism
mcdonald's and brand journalism
07/26/2004 07:23 PMit's interesting that both mcdonald's and coke are rethinking core
marketing strategies
The Most Powerful Man in Technology
Journalism
The Most Powerful Man in Technology
Journalism
05/06/2004 09:45 PMDead trees = journalism
Dead trees = journalism
04/19/2004 01:46 PMCongrats to Richard! Until your words go onto dead trees -
you are not a journalist. But now you are!
I guess
this makes me a journalist.
Today I got my first article in print. My interview with Marc Canter made it into
Computerworld New Zealand (pg 16, April 19 edition -
right over the page from Jon Udell). It was one
of my goals at the start of this year to get my writing published in
the print world, so I'm chuffed to have achieved it! I'll upload a
scanned version of the article tomorrow, because it isn't on the Computerworld NZ website at
this point in time.
For those of you who may have arrived at my personal website via
Computerworld, you may be interested in reading the extended
version of the Marc Canter interview. Or perhaps pay his company
website Broadband
Mechanics a visit (newly re-designed, with my interview
linked on the homepage too. Excellent!). Or you could stick around,
make yourself at home, put your feet up and browse through my
archive of weblog writings - by date or by topic.
What the heck is Blogging?
Some of you may be wondering what all this "blogging" business is
about. The best way I can explain it is invite you to participate in
the personal publishing revolution. Firstly, to read and subscribe to
weblogs - try out Bloglines as
an easy-to-use "newsreader". You can start by subscribing to this
weblog ;-) Click here to subscribe to Read/Write Web in Bloglines. Or, see
that orange button with RSS on it - to your
left? RSS means "Really Simple Syndication". Right-click that and
copy it directly into Bloglines.
The second part of the blogging equation is the writing and
publishing. There are a variety of tools out there, including Radio Userland, Movable Type and TypePad. I currently use Radio
Userland to publish this weblog and Movable Type for my linklog (daily list of
links).
So am I really a Journalist?
Not really, but my interview with Marc Canter was an example of
journalism. The reason I bring this topic up is that there's been a
lot of talk lately about whether blogging is journalism. Jay Rosen wrote an excellent essay on this a
couple of days ago. His conclusion was that "Blogging is not
automatically journalism." There's a lot more to the debate than just
this statement, but it's all philosophical. Read Jay's post and all
the great comments others made on his weblog, if you
want the full picture.
For what it's worth, I think journalism is a craft
that must be learnt and practised constantly - much like being a Web Designer or
Producer is a craft. I can occasionally practise the craft of
journalism, and perhaps I'm even good enough to "turn pro". But the
reality is I'm an amateur Journo (sometimes) and a professional Web
Craftsman (all the time).
Tom Coates wrote an essay last year called (Weblogs and) The Mass
Amateurisation of (Nearly) Everything... that outlines how
weblogs make it easy for "amateurs" to publish. Nowadays anyone
can create original content and distribute it to the
world. If it gets picked up by a professional publishing outfit, all
the better for both writer and readers. It's a win-win two-way web world!
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American Journalism Review
American Journalism Review
05/31/2004 03:28 PMThe Expanding Blogosphere .. article this month .. Rachel
Smolkin
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