In the most recent installment of his series of articles for BBC News Online, Dan Gillmor suggests that journalists play a part in the education of citizen journalists: "Professional journalists should also be helping citizen journalists, with education and training.… Continue Reading
I’m starting to think we need an acronym to easily describe the whole class of “web 2.0”, “social software” and “citizen media” conferences that are popping up in the calendar. (YES, it’s exciting that so much is going on but… Continue Reading
Early May is going to be a busy time for conference go-ers. Not only is wemedia (and possibly a fringe!) coming to town on the 3rd-4th, but the Association of Online Publishers is holding a two day conference, Tomorrow’s Web,… Continue Reading
The Guardian’s Simon Waldman has been spotted thinking aloud about a decentralised publishing model: What we need is a swift, easy and unpunitive licensing structure to allow content creators to distribute content; and for aggregators to aggregate – with value… Continue Reading
Dan Gillmor appeared late last week on BBC News Online to answer questions about citizen journalism. For those who follow Gillmor (or, more likely, can’t avoid him) there’s not a whole lot new here but he does do a good… Continue Reading
The following guest entry was written by Richard Sambrook, Director of Global News at the BBC. Richard started his career working on local newspapers and joined the BBC in the 1980’s as a radio news sub-editor. He worked his way… Continue Reading
I’m pleased to announce that Matthew Allen, Associate Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University has joined the list of guest bloggers. Matthew is President of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), an academic association dedicated to the advancement of… Continue Reading
Each day next week (20-24 March), cybersoc.com will be publishing posts by a series of special guest bloggers to help mark the one year anniversary of cybersoc.com (the blog, not the site which is 10 this year). The guest bloggers… Continue Reading
Dan Gillmor, whose name crops up in more sentences about citizen journalism than there are ands or buts, is writing a series of articles for BBC News Online. Gillmor is author of We the Media, a book about technology and… Continue Reading
Are you responsible for managing user generated content for the website of a news or media organisation in the UK or elsewhere? I’m currently doing some research on how various organisations, including the BBC, solicit, manage and use audience submissions.… Continue Reading