Georgia Logothetis is better known as Georgia10, contributing editor at liberal blog the Daily Kos. During a panel discussion at the AEJMC annual conference, she described blogs as an example of people empowerment. I caught up with her after the session. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.1463623&w=425&h=350&fv=] (Shot on a Nokia N95) Update: Bryan Murley has posted a write-up of the panel Georgia was on. It is well worth reading. Print
PDF During a wide-ranging discussion on the impact of the internet on the US presidential elections at the AEJMC annual conference, one of the panellists raised a startling point. Aaron Smith, a research specialist at Pew Internet and American Life Project, make a prediction about how campaigns might be able to reach voters as the moment they are casting their ballots. He suggested that eventually a smart engineer would figure out
Kate Marymont, vice president of Information Center Content at Gannett, talks about her vision of reader-driven investigative journalism: (Shot on a Nokia N95) Print
Image via Wikipedia Much of the discussion at the AEJMC annual conference has focused on user-generated content (UGC) and how journalists should adapt to this changing environment. Jane Singer from the University of Central Lancashire is one of the leading researchers in this area. She talked about how online created a shared space, whereas print was largely a space controlled by journalists. Her most recent research looked at the attitudes
Image via Wikipedia The attitude of two Chicago news sites to comments illustrates some of the differences between new and old media. At a panel at the AEJMC annual conference on handling offensive comments, there were speakers from the Chicago Tribune newspaper’s website and from the online newspaper ChiTownDailyNews.org. At the Tribune, registration is required to leave a comment on a story. The site uses a profanity filter with some
Good news for journalism students and those like myself who teach them – there are still jobs to be had in the profession, at least in the US. A study by the University of Georgia found that the job market for journalism and mass communication graduates has remained largely the same in the second half of 2007 and the first half of 2008. J-school students will be relieved to hear
Image via Wikipedia The theme at this year’s AEJMC annual conference is transformation, taking account of the changes taking place in the media. While many panels look at specific issues such as blogging and multimedia journalism, a paper by David Ryfe and Donica Mensing at the University of Nevada in Reno suggests that the purpose of journalism may be changing, with participation becoming increasingly important. They asked whether journalism is
At last week’s AEJMC convention in Washington DC, New York University professor Jay Rosen talked about the philosophy behind his influential blog PressThink. Rosen explained how blogging was ideal for the diffusion of ideas as you can, in his words, “etch yourself into the memory of the web”. What he means is that, for example, when you run a Google search for the words Eason Jordan, the second listing is
The list of 12 tips for creating an online community produced by the Knight Citizen News Network is a worthwhile read. It hopes to help anyone struggling to keep their online community civil, constructive and lively. Among the tips is: The “if you build it, they will come” approach to online community rarely produces good results. Most people don’t want to be the first one to strike up a public
One of the more interesting speakers at last week’s annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication was Dan Gillmor. During a panel on citizen media, he talked about the need to accept failure as a learning process. Gillmor is speaking from experience, having being behind the failed Bayosphere site. Print