ISBN:
9780596102272
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (261 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version We the Media : Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
"We the Media, has become something of a bible for those who believe the online medium will change journalism for the better." -Financial Times Big Media has lost its monopoly on the news, thanks to the Internet. Now that it's possible to publish in real time to a worldwide audience, a new breed of grassroots journalists are taking the news into their own hands. Armed with laptops, cell phones, and digital cameras, these readers-turned-reporters are transforming the news from a lecture into a conversation. In We the Media, nationally acclaimed newspaper columnist and blogger Dan Gillmor tell
Description / Table of Contents:
Acclaim for Dan Gillmor's We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People; Copyright; Contents; Epigraph; Introduction to the Paperback Edition; Introduction; From Tom Paine to Blogs and Beyond; The Corporate Era; From Outside In; Ransom-Note Media; Out Loud and Outrageous; The Web Era Emergent; Writing the Web; Open Sourcing the News; Terror Turns Journalism's Corner; The Read-Write Web; Mail Lists and Forums; Weblogs; Wiki; SMS; Mobile-Connected Cameras; Internet "Broadcasting"; Peer-to-Peer; The RSS Revolution; Making Sense of It All; The Gates Come Down
Description / Table of Contents:
Spreading the WordTruth Squad; Looking Deeper; Bubble, Bubble, Tout and Trouble; Swarming Investigators and Spies; Watching Journalists; Turning the Tables; Newsmakers Turn the Tables; Learning by Listening; Blog It; The Celebrity Blog; Talking to the Audience; Fine-Grain Pitching; Some Rules for New-World PR and Marketing; The Consent of the Governed; Business as Usual; What's New Is Old; Electing a President; Dean Meets Meetup, Blogs, and Money; Cash Cow, and Catching Up; Open Source Politics; A Changing Role for Journalists; The Tools of Better Governance
Description / Table of Contents:
Professional Journalists Join the ConversationTraditional Media's Opportunity; Authority from Linking, Listening; Asking the Former Audience for Help; Case Study: Promoting, Then Reporting, Activism; Case Study: The Citizen Reporters; Newsroom Tools; Teaching New Tricks; A Question of Trust; The Former Audience Joins the Party; Citizen Journalist: Bloggers (and More) Everywhere; Evolutionary and Revolutionary; Nonprofit Community Publishing; Alternative Media Flourishes; The Wiki Media Phenomenon; Business Models for Tomorrow's Personal Journalism; New Business Models: The Tip Jar; Next Steps
Description / Table of Contents:
Laws and Other CodesCreating the News; Sorting It Out; Syndication Takes Off; The World Live Web; Probing APIs and Web Services; Okay, but Whose "Information" Do You Trust?; Dinosaurs and Dangers; Trolls, Spin, and the Boundaries of Trust; Cut and Paste, Right and Wrong; New Ways to Mislead; Who's Talking, and Why?; Trolls and Other Annoyances; Spin Patrol; Citizen Reporters to the Rescue; A Flight to Quality?; Plain Old Common Sense; Here Come the Judges (and Lawyers); Defamation, Libel, and Other Nasty Stuff; Jurisdiction; Email and Free Speech; Misusing Other People's Work
Description / Table of Contents:
Copyrights and WrongsForbidden Links and Other Outrages; The Empires Strike Back; Governments Get Nervous; Big Business Gets Nosy; The Copyright Cartel; Eye of the Beholder; Charm and Toughness; The Tech Industry Sellout; The End of End-to-End?; Return of the Jedi Users; A Deregulatory Rescue?; The End of Scarcity?; Making Our Own News; A Creative Commons; Day-to-Day Changes; Epilogue and Acknowledgments; Outline and Ideas; Drafts and Other Postings; Acknowledgments; Web Site Directory; Glossary; Notes; Index; About the Author; Colophon
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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