studying the media ecosystem
South’s Korea’s OhMyNews may have written the book on citizen journalism but Agoravox, which started in France about 15 months ago and has since spawned an English edition, has opened a new chapter. An interview with the editor of Agoravox UK, conducted by a British journalism site, offers insights into this European experiment.
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Web pioneer Kevin Kelly wowed a group of Northern California science writers last night with his life story, with his vision of an ever-more-intelligent and ever-present network, and with his prediction that what he called “mess media” — the upsurge of user-generated content that is morphing mass media from a gate keeper into an attention-focuser [...]
Over the weekend I watched a video created by my brother, an electrician by trade, who made a 10-minute pilot of a cooking show he hopes to sell, syndicate, whatever. It was great! I’m sorry I can’t point to it yet because he hasn’t gone public, but that clip convinced me — if indeed I [...]
It’s been almost 30 years since I sold my first freelance story to a now-defunct publication called the Berkeley Barb, but I remember handing the article to the editor and then watching his eyes as he read it — until my staring irked him and he chased me away. Well, now a new software tool [...]
A goof in a recent posting about a newspaper-sponsored citizen journalism site in California ended up pointing me toward a similar experiment in South Carolina, where that region’s largest daily has launched an online forum called TheColumbiaRecord.com.
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One day I’ll have time to induklge my interest in the sociology of journalism, which I think explains a lot about the lens through which we get to see our world, but under an incredible time crunch today, let me simply inject an example from my mass media experience into this mini media forum. I [...]
This recent report has all the makings of a “fact” that will gain credence because it is so easy to grasp, so tempting to repeat and conforms to our preconceptions: “New research shows that news stories online are barely read by anyone 36 hours after they are first posted.” Taking a moment to scan the [...]
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