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Einar Thorsen of Bournemouth University, UK, was one of the final presenters at the IAMCR 2010 in Braga. He looked at how the relationship between BBC online journalism and ctizenship during the 2005 and 2010 UK General Elections. In a quick presentation, Thorsen explained how civic engagement as a key of the BBC mandate reflected in [...]
I am at the IAMCR conference in Braga this week and plan to blog about the latest in journalism research. In a session on journalism and innovation, David Nordfors of Stanford University raised questions about journalism’s ability to cover innovation and its relationship to society and democracy. Nordfors framed innovation journalism as a field of journalism [...]
An impression roster of speakers tackled the question of participatory journalism at International Symposium on Online Journalism. The session was introduced by Dan Gillmor, professor and director, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, Arizona State University, with an overview of the read-write web, from consumers to creators to collaborators. The question, said Gillmor, isn’t who [...]
The second day of International Symposium on Online Journalism offered a refreshing look at international innovative initiatives. Harry Dugmore, MTN Chair of Media and Mobile Communications, Rhodes University (South Africa) started by providing an update to a project founded by the Knight News Challenge. in South Africa, almost 100% of families have access to cellphones, [...]
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12 Mar 2010Image via CrunchBase My paper analysing Twitter as a system of ambient journalism has just been published online by Journalism Practice. In it, I approach that services like Twitter that allow for the instant dissemination of fragments of news and information as awareness systems. I suggest that these broad, asynchronous, lightweight and always-on systems are [...]
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30 Jan 2010The CAJ Innovate conference kicked off with a keynote by Jim Brady. He is the president of digital strategy at Allbritton Communications (owners of Politico.com) and the former executive editor of WashingtonPost.com. His theme was the potential of local news. He argued that in the early days of news online, many local newspaper sites were [...]
Part of my research has involved studying the adoption of blogging at the BBC. One of the areas I studied was blogs as a platform for greater accountability in news. The results of that research are in a chapter in the book, Web Journalism: A New Form of Citizenship?, which has just been published by [...]
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