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Posted in Readings on Nov 11th, 2008
Chapter 7 discusses the idea of citizen journalism and how the former newsreaders have become the news writers with help from the blogosphere. Glimor talks about the traditional citizen journalists that previously wrote letters to the editor and were engaged and active on a local level. They now write blogs and post on a greater [...]
Posted in Readings on Nov 11th, 2008
“Professional Journalists Join the Conversation” is the topic of chapter 6 in the We the Media text. The chapter focuses on how new forms of technology have drastically changed the media and have also made it possible for anyone to be a journalist. With this said, there is some really bad journalism out there on [...]
Posted in Readings on Nov 11th, 2008
In Chapter 6 of We the Media, Dan Gillmor discusses how professional journalists and media organizations can utilize information provided by informal sources to strengthen their work and better serve their audience. I agree with Gillmor that audience input strengthens work and that advances in technology have made this easier. In the past, one [...]
Posted in Readings on Nov 11th, 2008
In the book, We the Media, chapter 8 Next Steps, recaps much of what we have learned in pervious chapters, as well as what the future may hold for the World Wide Web. Dan Gilmore predicts what the infrastructure of the Internet is leading up to based on two main principles. “The first is a [...]
Posted in Readings on Nov 11th, 2008
Chapter 10 in “We the Media” focused on the idea that bloggers - though at times more free than traditional journalists in their comments - are not completely protected from legal action. Bloggers can be prosecuted for libel, copyright infringment and other law-breaking actions.
While the chapter is certainly important in the larger conversation on blogging [...]
Posted in Readings on Nov 11th, 2008
In chapter 7 of “We the Media” by Dan Gillmor, the focus is on the development of grassroots journalism, of readers becoming writers. Most of the information wasn’t news to me and sounded like a reiteration of points Gillmor made earlier in the book, but there are two interesting aspects that I would like to [...]
Posted in Readings on Nov 11th, 2008
Chapter 6 of the book, “We the Media” was about the importance of citizen journalism and “new” journalism that not only informs people, but also opens up the dialogue to include average citizens in places far and wide. It is interesting to note the progressive nature of journalism. In this day and age, a journalist’s [...]
Posted in Readings on Nov 10th, 2008
The big picture discussed in Chapter 8 of “We the Media” by Dan Gillmor is that the creation of Web 2.0 has opened up the doors for how we as the public can get our news. The internet gives all of its users the ability to become their own journalist, among many other things. Its’ [...]
Posted in Teleconference on Nov 6th, 2008
I rolled out of bed, got my midnight snack, and then shuffled to the library for an 8am call to Iran. The videoconference with the students from Tehran was obviously a unique and interesting opportunity. It was a little embarrassing that nobody remembered to consider the change in time over the weekend do to daylights [...]
Posted in Teleconference on Nov 6th, 2008
Although I was only at the discussion for about 20 minutes because I had class at 9, I did gain some interesting insight. First, I thought that it was interesting how many Iranian students in the class were majoring in “American studies.” I was really curious as to what that entailed. Politics? History? Pop culture? [...]