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acueducto en vilanova i la geltrú 23 sept 2004
Segon Seminari Internacional de Periodisme Digital Vilanova i la Geltrú 23 de Septembre 2004
We Media
How audiences are changing the future of news and information
Agenda
- What is Participatory Journalism?
- Who participates?
- How do they participate?
- Why do they participate?
- How does this impact big media?
- How can big media collaborate?
Participatory Journalism
The act of a citizen, or group of citizens, playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information. The intent of this participation is to provide independent, reliable, accurate, wide-ranging and relevant information that a democracy requires.
For example...
Fact checking
Source: IBM HistoryFlow
Who is participating?
- Your audience
- Sources
- Advertisers
- Businesses, institutions, government
- Public relations
- Media
Forms
- Discussion groups, forums, mailing lists,
chat rooms
- User-generated content
- Weblogs, audio/video blogs, moblogs
- Collaborative publishing
- Peer-to-peer (IM, SMS, Gnutella)
- Syndication (XML, RSS, Atom)
- Open vs. Closed
Functions
- Commentary
- Filtering, editing
- Fact checking
- Grassroots reporting
- Annotative reporting
- Open source journalism, peer review
- Audio/video broadcasting
- Buying, selling, advertising
- Knowledge management
Why participate?
- Gain status, build reputation
- Connect with like-minded people
- Sense-making, understanding
- To inform or entertain
- To be informed or entertained
- To create
- Activism
- Knowledge management
Impact on Big Media
- Better journalism
- Build loyalty & trust
- Be more competitive
- Foster community
- Scaleable staff
- Leverage network
- Be a good Netizen (Copyleft, Open Source)
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Journalist Citizen Self-expression Curiosity Conscience Fame, etc. Money
Similar motivations
“The future is here. It just isn’t evenly distributed yet.”
W i l l i a m G i b s o n
“El futuro ya está aquí. Pero aún no está bien distribuido”
Free resources
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Shayne Bowman sbowman@hypergene.net Chris Willis cwillis@hypergene.net