Communication world

Citizen Journalism From 'boingboing'

2008-07-09T06:40:00.000-07:00

Dan Gillmor explains "citizen journalism"
Posted by Cory Doctorow, May 2, 2006 4:47 AM |

Dan Gillmor, the hero and lion of "citizen journalism," gave a tremendous speech on what participatory, 21st-century news-reporting can and should look like at at Columbia's Hearst New Media Lecture, and he's posted the transcript on his blog:
This is called a "New Media" lecture. Two items: First, We are moving at light speed to a time when the expression "new media" will too many words, and we'll drop the new part; it'll just be media. I'm glad to see this school and the organizations that hire its graduates are adopting at least some of tomorrow's techniques more quickly than I predicted. That's good. Forward-looking folks are aware that there's no alternative, not to mention the fact that the journalism will benefit.
...I was calling attention to another reality of tomorrow's journalism. In a craft that's shifting from lecture to conversation, the publication (or broadcast or whatever) is not The End. It is somewhere in the middle of an emergent system in which we all can keep learning, and teaching.

This is increasingly doable in part because of what has changed so much for so many: the collision of technology and media, which has helped democratize communications and is turning traditional notions of journalism in new directions. Now, I don't mean democratization so much as in the sense of voting -- though collective community thinking is an intriguing and valuable part of what's coming. I mean it in the sense of wide participation.

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2008-07-03T20:01:00.001-07:00

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CITIZEN JOURNALISM!!

2008-07-03T17:00:00.001-07:00

Full of Uncensored fresh news!!!

We tend to think that the news in blogs are not credible and

respected because the writers are normal like us.

I thought same like that. However, after I read some articles

and how the website works in the section 'about',

I've changed my mind. It can be fairly credible and accurate.

I'd like to hear your opinion!! after read the below, tell me about it!

How Global Voices Works:

Global Voices seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online - shining light on places and people other media often ignore. We work to develop tools, institutions and relationships that will help all voices, everywhere, to be heard.

With tens of millions of people blogging all over the planet, how do you avoid being overwhelmed by the information overload? How do you figure out who are the most influential or respected and credible bloggers or podcasters in any given country, especially those outside your own?

Our international team of volunteer authors, regional blogger-editors and translators are your guides to the global blogosphere.

These amazing people are bloggers who live in various countries around the world. We have invited them as contributors or hired them as editors because they understand the context and relevance of information, views, and analysis being posted every day from their countries and regions on blogs, podcasts, photo sharing sites, videoblogs - and other kinds of online citizen media. They are helping us to make sense of it all, and to highlight things that bloggers are saying which mainstream media may not be reporting.

For quick hits, check out our Links section, where each weekday our editors link to 5-10 of the most interesting blog posts from their regions. In the Weblog section, our translators, editors, and volunteer contributors post longer features, shedding light on the preoccupations of the blogging communities in their countries.
Our Primary Goals:

At a time when the international English-language media ignores many things that are important to large numbers of the world’s citizens, Global Voices aims to redress some of the inequities in media attention by leveraging the power of citizens’ media. We’re using a wide variety of technologies - weblogs, podcasts, photos, video, wikis, tags, aggregators and online chats - to call attention to conversations and points of view that we hope will help shed new light on the nature of our interconnected world. We aim to do the following:

1) Call attention to the most interesting conversations and perspectives emerging from citizens’ media around the world by linking to text, photos, podcasts, video and other forms of grassroots citizens’ media being produced by people around the world

2) Facilitate the emergence of new citizens’ voices through training, online tutorials, and publicizing the ways in which open-source and free tools can be used safely by people around the world to express themselves

3) Advocate for freedom of expression around the world and to protect the rights of citizen journalists to report on events and opinions without fear of censorship or persecution

The idea for the project grew out of an international bloggers’ meeting held at Harvard in December 2004. (Here’s a written account of the meeting. To listen to an audio report, click here). Global Voices, though headquartered at Harvard Law School, is a co-operative effort of contributors from every continent and dozens of countries.

Because voices from North America and Western Europe are already over-represented in the global media, we are not focusing on those regions in our coverage at this time.

As a Future Journalist

2008-07-02T05:31:00.000-07:00

Hey, guys!

Are you having a good night? It's so windy tonight...

Anyway!

Why I posted the picture is that

we should know the real story of war reporting and also all of information from

the world as we are studying journalism.

we should often visit the websites which are mentioned last sem in Comm218

such as www.rsf.org, www.cpj.org, www.freemedia.at, and www.amnesty.org.

Keep visiting and joining the websites Until we find a real freedom of the media!!!

Good night, guys!

Hello!

2008-06-26T18:06:00.000-07:00

I thought it would be a good idea to start a communication world blog.
Here, we can share information about freedom of the media and also our life in Sydney!
As if! we talk about the freedom of the media all the time
it would be so boring. haha. Let's enjoy our study and life in Sydney!