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Mediactive: A User's Guide to Finding, Following, and Creating the News
The current woes of journalism have received widespread attention: declining readership, failing publishers, complaints of bias and irrelevancy. How can we live in an information age unless we have access to accurate information? This book delves into the potential of collaborative news making with practical, tested advice for consumers and creators alike.
Students, journalists, and anyone concerned with the future of democratic debate will find strategies and techniques for making the news vibrant again. Amateurs will learn how to swim with the pros. And if you have been a passive consumer of news, you'll understand why, and how, becoming an active participant in media will help you navigate a world with nearly infinite sources of information.
Author Dan Gillmor was one of the leading journalists in the high-tech world before leaving for academic research and practical experiments in the field of participatory journalism. Mediactive is accompanied by a website, http://mediactive.com, that tracks the news and trends in this burgeoning field.
This book includes:
Strategies for finding and creating credible, reliable information
Key principles for media consumers and creators, such as transparency and inclusiveness
How journalism can thrive in a digital world, and why it still matters
How some laws and societal norms need to be upgraded in an age of citizen media
How schools, parents, and media creators can lead the way in bringing these principles to a new generation
Students, journalists, and anyone concerned with the future of democratic debate will find strategies and techniques for making the news vibrant again. Amateurs will learn how to swim with the pros. And if you have been a passive consumer of news, you'll understand why, and how, becoming an active participant in media will help you navigate a world with nearly infinite sources of information.
Author Dan Gillmor was one of the leading journalists in the high-tech world before leaving for academic research and practical experiments in the field of participatory journalism. Mediactive is accompanied by a website, http://mediactive.com, that tracks the news and trends in this burgeoning field.
This book includes:
Strategies for finding and creating credible, reliable information
Key principles for media consumers and creators, such as transparency and inclusiveness
How journalism can thrive in a digital world, and why it still matters
How some laws and societal norms need to be upgraded in an age of citizen media
How schools, parents, and media creators can lead the way in bringing these principles to a new generation
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