The Age of Participation
We are entering an age of cultural richness and abundant choice that we've never seen before in history. Peer production is the most powerful industrial force of our time.
-Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine.
I've recently been exploring the idea of participatory media, especially how it can transform traditional journalism, as it seems our own outlets for news in the US are failing in their mission to inform us, for a variety of contested reasons. It seems that anymore one has to dig for the truth by weighing the opinion-bent perspectives of a variety of sources.
For those of us who are truth seekers, there's no shortage of sources competing for our attention, and most importantly for our TRUST (see this interview with author Karen Stephenson on the subject of trust in media). Regardless of where the cards will fall (and they are falling, continuously and dynamically), I think this trend toward participatory journalism could change the world. Or rather: IS changing the world.
I wanted to do a news research internship in New York for the summer, and actually will participate in some news research as a result of contacts I made in my internship search. However, I decided on an internship opportunity that will expose me to more analytics, which I find difficult to understand in a classroom situation, and grasp far more easily when I'm given some one-on-one attention and true, real application. I know these skills will prove to be valuable to me as I go forward in my career and studies.
But the idea of how technology is changing the media still fascinates me, and while I have sworn off any more school after this degree, the one field that could tempt me into more study is an interdisciplinary look at how technology is changing our society, and specifically the communications landscape.
Some links:
Economist article about participatory media
CNNMoney article about Digg.com
Center for Citizen Media
The Online News Association
The Center for the Digital Future
Criticism of the Blogosphere
A blog about how marketing and PR are being affected by "social software"
A blog with great observations about participatory culture and the wired landscape
Fine examples of participatory journalism:
Columbia Journalism Review
Corante
Global Voices
Halley's Comment
Hypergene
PressThink
Meta journalism:
Views on Citizen Journalism
I, Reporter
A group weblog by journalists about journalism
PBS's Mediashift
Civic Journalism Interest Group Conference
Papers
-Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine.
I've recently been exploring the idea of participatory media, especially how it can transform traditional journalism, as it seems our own outlets for news in the US are failing in their mission to inform us, for a variety of contested reasons. It seems that anymore one has to dig for the truth by weighing the opinion-bent perspectives of a variety of sources.
For those of us who are truth seekers, there's no shortage of sources competing for our attention, and most importantly for our TRUST (see this interview with author Karen Stephenson on the subject of trust in media). Regardless of where the cards will fall (and they are falling, continuously and dynamically), I think this trend toward participatory journalism could change the world. Or rather: IS changing the world.
I wanted to do a news research internship in New York for the summer, and actually will participate in some news research as a result of contacts I made in my internship search. However, I decided on an internship opportunity that will expose me to more analytics, which I find difficult to understand in a classroom situation, and grasp far more easily when I'm given some one-on-one attention and true, real application. I know these skills will prove to be valuable to me as I go forward in my career and studies.
But the idea of how technology is changing the media still fascinates me, and while I have sworn off any more school after this degree, the one field that could tempt me into more study is an interdisciplinary look at how technology is changing our society, and specifically the communications landscape.
Some links:
Economist article about participatory media
CNNMoney article about Digg.com
Center for Citizen Media
The Online News Association
The Center for the Digital Future
Criticism of the Blogosphere
A blog about how marketing and PR are being affected by "social software"
A blog with great observations about participatory culture and the wired landscape
Fine examples of participatory journalism:
Columbia Journalism Review
Corante
Global Voices
Halley's Comment
Hypergene
PressThink
Meta journalism:
Views on Citizen Journalism
I, Reporter
A group weblog by journalists about journalism
PBS's Mediashift
Civic Journalism Interest Group Conference
Papers
posted by Miss Information at 8:13 AM
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Congress is selling out the Internet!
Hi,
Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an iPod? Everything we do online will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law next week that gives giant corporations more control over what we do and see on the Internet.
Internet providers like AT&T are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality--the Internet's First Amendment and the key to Internet freedom. Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most easily for you based on which site pays AT&T more. BarnesandNoble.com doesn't have to outbid Amazon for the right to work properly on your computer.
If Net Neutrality is gutted, many sites--including Google, eBay, and iTunes--must either pay protection money to companies like AT&T or risk having their websites process slowly. That why these high-tech pioneers, plus diverse groups ranging from MoveOn to Gun Owners of America, are opposing Congress' effort to gut Internet freedom.
You can do your part today--can you sign this petition telling your member of Congress to preserve Internet freedom? Click here:
http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet?track_referer=706%7C7011052-JUcUR52osFPJvWGmPeKe7Q
I signed this petition, along with 250,000 others so far. This petiton will be delivered to Congress before the House of Representatives votes next week. When you sign, you'll be kept informed of the next steps we can take to keep the heat on Congress.
Snopes.com, which monitors various causes that circulate on the Internet, explained:
Simply put, network neutrality means that no web site's traffic has precedence over any other's...Whether a user searches for recipes using Google, reads an article on snopes.com, or looks at a friend's MySpace profile, all of that data is treated equally and delivered from the originating web site to the user's web browser with the same priority. In recent months, however, some of the telephone and cable companies that control the telecommunications networks over which Internet data flows have floated the idea of creating the electronic equivalent of a paid carpool lane.
If companies like AT&T have their way, Web sites ranging from Google to eBay to iTunes either pay protection money to get into the "fast lane" or risk opening slowly on your computer. We can't let the Internet--this incredible medium which has been such a revolutionary force for democratic participation, economic innovation, and free speech--become captive to large corporations.
Politicians don't think we are paying attention to this issue. Together, we do care about preserving the free and open Internet.
Please sign this petition letting your member of Congress know you support preserving Internet freedom. Click here:
http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet?track_referer=706%7C7011052-JUcUR52osFPJvWGmPeKe7Q
Thanks,
Caroleigh
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