Making sense of the intersection between media, society and technology
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 BBC has long been leading the way in user-generated content, using photos and videos from the public in its reporting. It has just launched two new participatory journalism initiatives. One is the appointment of an Interactive Reporter, Siobhan Courtney. On the BBC Editors blog, Matthew Eltringham, explains her “beat is simply all the content [...]
Interesting to see that the Vancouver-based participatory news site NowPublic.com is expanding its editorial team. It comes after the site received $10m in venture capital funding last year. It has post several job ads on its blog. NowPublic is looking for: Regional Editors – US, Australia, China, India, South Africa and the UK A sports [...]
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Study shows comments fail to raise level of debate
In: academics|journalism
24 Apr 2010One of the final presentations at ISOJ looked at the content of comments. The study, Comments in News, Democracy Booster or Journalistic Nightmare (PDF), analysed comments on newspaper websites in Catalunya in Spain David Domingo, Universitat Rovira i Virgilli (Tarragona, explained that the analysis was based on Habermas: were comments an expression of a democratic [...]