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Citizen Journalism No Longer Just an Interesting Idea

Jennifer Franklin Elrod — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:08:20 +0000

Citizen journalism has proved it is viable and deserves to be taken seriously. Not that issues of trust and accountability have disappeared, but there is every reason to keep experimenting. Writes Rory O’Connor in OhourNews:

In the wake of such recent citizen-mediated news events as the Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the London train bombings, Senator George Allen’s political suicide, the Virginia Tech massacre, et al, the real question is why anyone would still wonder about the possibility, much less the efficacy, of so-called ‘citizen journalism.’

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Henry Jenkins on Two Approaches to Participatory Culture: Prohibitionists and Collaborationists

Jennifer Franklin Elrod — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:34:30 +0000

Henry Jenkins, who will soon have a book out called, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, posted an excerpt from his forthcoming book in his blog.

Grant McCracken, the cultural anthropologist and industry consultant, suggests that in the future, media producers must accommodate consumer demands to participate or they will run the risk of losing the most active and passionate consumers to some other media interest which is more tolerant: “Corporations must decide whether they are, literally, in or out. Will they make themselves an island or will they enter the mix? Making themselves an island may have certain short-term financial benefits, but the long-term costs can be substantial.”The media industry is increasingly dependent on active and committed consumers to spread the word about valued properties in an overcrowded media marketplace and in some cases, they are seeking ways to channel the creative output of media fans to lower their production costs. At the same time, they are terrified of what happens if this consumer power gets out of control, as they claim occurred following the introduction of Napster and other file-sharing services….

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What is New Media?

Jennifer Franklin Elrod — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:18:17 +0000

Vin Crosbie on Rebuilding Media defines the term new media for us.

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The People Formerly Known as the Audience

Jennifer Franklin Elrod — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:13:37 +0000

Jay Rosen posts on PressThink a statement that the people formerly known as the audience (also sometimes called “eyeballs”) want to make to media people. It’s a fun read, and there are lots of good comments afterwards.

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Transmodiology

Jennifer Franklin Elrod — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:47:41 +0000

Christy Dena has coined a new term for research into entertainment that crosses media - transmodiology. In Latin, it means across, beyond or through media or modes. Thus, a researcher who studied both games and storytelling could fit under this umbrella. So could a person who was a student of both web comics and comics or both literature and hypertext literature. I don’t think it will catch on anytime soon in colloquial use, but its intent is more academic - Dena is using the word for the first time in a scholarly paper she’s writing. The name of her blog “Cross-Media Entertainment” - still seems more likely to be understood in colloquial use.

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