Monday, September 8, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
READING: From the Screen to the Streets
By Howard Rheingold
In These Times, Volume 27, issue 26.
10.28.03
It was five years ago when Rheingold reflections about new media were published in In These Times. His discussion will help us understand the role of new media in activism and politics.
"It has taken 10 years of talk about “new media” for a critical mass to understand that every computer desktop, and now every pocket, is a worldwide printing press, broadcasting station, place of assembly, and organizing tool—and to learn how to use that infrastructure to affect change.Previous technologies allowed users only to communicate one-to-one (telephones) or few-to-many (broadcast and print media). Mobile and deskbound media such as blogs, listservs and social networking sites allow for many-to-many communication. This provides opportunities and problems for progressive political activists in three key areas: Gathering and disseminating alternative and more democratic news; creating virtual public spheres where citizens debate the issues that concern democratic societies; and organizing collective political action".
http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=414_0_1_0_M
In These Times, Volume 27, issue 26.
10.28.03
It was five years ago when Rheingold reflections about new media were published in In These Times. His discussion will help us understand the role of new media in activism and politics.
"It has taken 10 years of talk about “new media” for a critical mass to understand that every computer desktop, and now every pocket, is a worldwide printing press, broadcasting station, place of assembly, and organizing tool—and to learn how to use that infrastructure to affect change.Previous technologies allowed users only to communicate one-to-one (telephones) or few-to-many (broadcast and print media). Mobile and deskbound media such as blogs, listservs and social networking sites allow for many-to-many communication. This provides opportunities and problems for progressive political activists in three key areas: Gathering and disseminating alternative and more democratic news; creating virtual public spheres where citizens debate the issues that concern democratic societies; and organizing collective political action".
http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=414_0_1_0_M
READING: The Read-Write Web. Technology that Makes We the Media Possible
Gillmore Dan (2008): “The Read-Write Web. Technology that Makes We The Media Possible”, in: We The Media. Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, O’Relly.
In the introduction of his book, Gillmore gives an interesting advice to journalists:
"We will learn we are part of something new, that our readers/listeners/viewers are becoming part of the process. I take it for granted, for example, that my readers know more than I do—and this is a liberating, not threatening, fact of journalistic life. Every reporter on every beat should embrace this. We will use the tools of grassroots journalism or be consigned to history. Our core values, including accuracy and fairness, will remain important, and we’ll still be gatekeepers in some ways, but our ability to shape larger conversations—and to provide context—will be at least as important as our ability to gather facts and report them" (Gilmore, 2008: xiv).
We will discuss his Chapter 2:
READING: Understanding Journalism as Newswork: How It Changes, and How It Remains the Same
Deuze, Mark (2008): “Understanding Journalism as Newswork: How It Changes, and How It Remains the Same”, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture © 2008 (University of Westminster, London), Vol. 5(2): 4- 23. ISSN 1744-6708 (Print); 1744-6716.
ABSTRACT
"For a media profession so central to society’s sense of self, it is of crucial importance to understand the influences of changing labour conditions, professional cultures, and the appropriation of technologies on the nature of work in journalism. In this paper, the various strands of international research on the changing nature of journalism as a profession are synthesized, using media logic as developed by Altheide and Snow (1979 and 1991) and updated by Dahlgren (1996) as a conceptual framework. A theoretical key to understanding and explaining journalism as a profession is furthermore to focus on the complexities of concurrent disruptive developments affecting its performance from the distinct perspective of its practitioners – for without them, there is no news".
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/pdf/WPCC-Vol5-No2-Mark_Deuze.pdf
ABSTRACT
"For a media profession so central to society’s sense of self, it is of crucial importance to understand the influences of changing labour conditions, professional cultures, and the appropriation of technologies on the nature of work in journalism. In this paper, the various strands of international research on the changing nature of journalism as a profession are synthesized, using media logic as developed by Altheide and Snow (1979 and 1991) and updated by Dahlgren (1996) as a conceptual framework. A theoretical key to understanding and explaining journalism as a profession is furthermore to focus on the complexities of concurrent disruptive developments affecting its performance from the distinct perspective of its practitioners – for without them, there is no news".
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/pdf/WPCC-Vol5-No2-Mark_Deuze.pdf
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