In the Guardian today… twice Originally uploaded by robinhamman. Cybersoc.com is in the Guardian Media section twice today. Bobbie Johnson and Conor Clarke’s America’s first user-generated confession looks at whether the Virginia Tech shootings, and subsequent user-generated confession video, were… Continue Reading
(bringing new readers up to speed) When it began to become clear that a horrific tragedy was unfolding at Virginia Tech University earlier this week, I did what a lot of bloggers did and looked to the blogs. I quickly… Continue Reading
The past few days have pointed to a future where audiences are likely to look first to blogs and other forms of participatory media for first hand accounts of emerging stories before turning to the mainstream media. Of course mainstream… Continue Reading
One of the livejournal blogs I found yesterday and linked to from here contains the account of Kate, written by her friend Paul, and tells how a gunman entered her classroom at Norris Hall and began shooting. After the gunman… Continue Reading
A shooting at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg Virginia has reportedly left over twenty people dead. I’ve been looking around for coverage from students and staff on campus… icantread01 has the most shocking account I’ve yet come across. He slept… Continue Reading
I’ve been invited to speak, along with my BBC Manchester Blog colleague Richard Fair, at the 6th Journalism Leaders Forum will take place at the University of Central Lancashire on the 15th of May, 2007. According to the website, “The… Continue Reading
BBC Manchester’s Richard Fair and myself will be giving a presentation at the Multimedia Meets Radio conference (pdf) organised by the European Broadcasting Union in Geneva, Switzerland on the 29th and 30th of March. We’ll be talking about the BBC… Continue Reading
For months I’ve been proactively trying to cut down on the number of RSS feeds I’m subscribed to because, these days, I rarely get a chance to check more than a dozen of them each day anyway. There’s something about… Continue Reading
The recent controversy over premium rate phone in votes to television programmes in the UK not being tallied properly underlines the point that audiences will eventually question, then turn against, participation for participation’s sake. The programmes in question, where audience… Continue Reading
The French Constitutional Council has, according to the IDG News Service, “approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who… Continue Reading