By Mindy McAdams
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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 [...]
Newspaper Web sites — it’s hard to know where to begin explaining what’s wrong with them. Rather than beat a dead horse, you could think about the reasons why a non-newspaper local news Web site completely trumps a newspaper site in its own market.
This is the fascinating subject of a post Howard Owens made yesterday. [...]
From the Global Voices collective comes a nice guide that could be useful in journalism education as well as in numerous developing countries or other places with press constraints:
Citizen Media: An Introduction (English, PDF, 489 KB)
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The PDF includes lots of links to interesting blogs and other cit-J sites where people are reporting on things [...]
Will Sullivan did a brilliant thing in his blog yesterday: He evaluated four professional journalism / visual journalism / multimedia journalism organizations he belongs to. The four are the Online News Association (ONA), National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), Society for News Design (SND), and Sports Shooter (which has an excellent Web site you can read [...]
Certain crimes grab and hold the attention of a local community. Unsolved murders of average, law-abiding citizens fascinate many of us. Maybe because murder, while all too common, shocks the moral fiber of most humans. Maybe because we are afraid it could happen to us — until we get the final explanation (who did [...]
It would be really helpful if I knew what was going on in my local area.
I don’t have time for a scavenger hunt through the unsightly clutter of real estate ads, etc. I don’t need my local daily to tell me about international news I already read about yesterday at BBC News online.
Personal utility is [...]
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