studying the media ecosystem
(Josh Wolf is a freelance journalist and anarchist. He has been jailed for refusing to turn over videotapes of a protest being investigated by federal authorities. Lots has been written about his case. On Friday, December 1, 2006, I ran a reminder of his incarceration. I’ll do the same every Friday until he is freed. If you are a media blogger consider doing the same. Josh needs [...]
The Internet enables like-minded people to find each other and work together. I started this blog to begin to understand how this ability to form ad-hoc teams information-sharing teams was revolutionizing media.
Now in an essay titled, ”The Political Economy of Peer Production,” Michel Bauwens takes the revolutionary potential of the Web to a Utopian extreme. Bauwens, a European author teaching in Thailand, argues that peer-to-peer production systems – like Linux and Wikipedia – allow many [...]
What factors motivate people to join or contribute content to online communities? What characteristics distinguish the frequent posters? What are people likely to share online about themselves, their companies or their organizations?
Two items today will shed some light on these essential behaviors. The first is a fascinating and lovely slide show from a consulting firm, The Attention Company, that defines a [...]
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Bumper sticks were handed out in the newsroom yesterday: Democracy Depends on Journalism. This lovely and largely true slogan was authored by The Newspaper Guild, of which I am honored to be a card-carrying member. The slogan is part of a campaign, SaveJournalism.org to dramatize the loss of jobs — about 44,000 over the last five years — by people like me.
While I worry about [...]
(Citizen journalist Anna (Nevada City Focus) Haynes said she often has questions about how to cover her local community. “What we need is a Dear Abby for citizen journalists,” she told me on the phone. I laughed. Then she sent me the question below and I thought a Q&A might be useful. If you have a how-to or ethical question regarding your citizen blog send it to [...]
(Josh Wolf is a freelance journalist and anarchist. He has been jailed for refusing to turn over videotapes of a protest being investigated by federal authorities. Lots has been written about his case. Last Friday I ran a reminder of his incarceration. I’ll do it every Friday until he is freed. If you are a media blogger consider doing the same. Josh is alone. But [...]
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