By Mindy McAdams
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I came up with a “reading” assignment for my grad students that would give us a good basis for a discussion about user-generated video. You can see it here: The mwesch Assignment (feel free to copy it).
I posted a summary (with two additional video examples embedded) on Slideshare: mwesch Reloaded.
Last fall I heard Mike Wesch [...]
I can’t get Sarah Palin’s gibes about “community organizer” out of my mind. I felt somewhat sick at how raucously the big crowd laughed at the phrase every time she said it. What kind of people are these, I wondered, who disrespect the idea of organizing a community to work on its own behalf? I [...]
Jack Lail, managing editor/multimedia at The Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel, wrote a comprehensive post about allowing online comments on newspaper Web sites. It’s an excellent treatment of the topic and well worth reading for both journalists and journalism students.
Commenting and comment management systems will evolve for newspaper Web sites. We’re at 1.0 versions for managing large-scale [...]
Can a newspaper eliminate all beats? That seems to be the plan at the Tampa Tribune.
Division of newspaper journalism work into “beats” has practical benefits. The reporter on the cops beat gets to know local law enforcement and local crime pretty well. (The cops reporter can tell you which streets are unsafe at night!) He [...]
Scott Karp wrote a kind of case study about what we all want from local news online, based on his quest for information about a big storm in his home area near Washington, D.C.
This is very instructive: What he wanted to know, and how hard it was to find.
His concern about power outages resonated with [...]
Thanks to Mathew Ingram for highlighting an article by Brian Stelter about networked information, in which Stelter illustrates ways in which younger voters act as conduits of news and current events. Their networks are not the old top-down networks of mass media — they resemble more the interpersonal networks of the bazaar, the coffee shop, [...]
Clay Shirky has a new book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. It’s about technologies of social networking.
I don’t know if this is in the book; Shirky wrote it for a blog from his publisher, Penguin:
A good deal of user-generated content isn’t actually “content” at all, at least not in the sense [...]
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