Dan Gillmor explains "citizen journalism"

David Lay · Post by **David Lay** » Tue May 02, 2006 4:28 pm

Interesting tidbit from BoingBoing.net:

Dan Gillmor, the hero and lion of "citizen journalism," gave a tremendous speech on what participatory, 21st-century news-reporting can and should look like at at Columbia's Hearst New Media Lecture, and he's posted the transcript on his blog:

This is called a "New Media" lecture. Two items: First, We are moving at light speed to a time when the expression "new media" will too many words, and we'll drop the new part; it'll just be media. I'm glad to see this school and the organizations that hire its graduates are adopting at least some of tomorrow's techniques more quickly than I predicted. That's good. Forward-looking folks are aware that there's no alternative, not to mention the fact that the journalism will benefit.

...I was calling attention to another reality of tomorrow's journalism. In a craft that's shifting from lecture to conversation, the publication (or broadcast or whatever) is not The End. It is somewhere in the middle of an emergent system in which we all can keep learning, and teaching.

This is increasingly doable in part because of what has changed so much for so many: the collision of technology and media, which has helped democratize communications and is turning traditional notions of journalism in new directions. Now, I don't mean democratization so much as in the sense of voting -- though collective community thinking is an intriguing and valuable part of what's coming. I mean it in the sense of wide participation.

http://sf.backfence.com/bayarea/showPost.cfm?myComm=BA&bid=2271

Dustin James · Post by **Dustin James** » Tue May 02, 2006 9:35 pm

Thanks...

As an old guy of the net, somehow this sounds like recycled news though. I mean I remember reading this in Wired Magazine in like the mid-ninties... Or Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte, 1995, pages 84-85 begin the conversation. Hey don't get me wrong, it's all true....just a little last century... the one I was born in

David Lay · Post by **David Lay** » Tue May 02, 2006 9:37 pm

Yeah, I remember reading Negroponte's articles in Wired...

Dustin James · Post by **Dustin James** » Tue May 02, 2006 9:44 pm

David Lay wrote:Yeah, I remember reading Negroponte's articles in Wired...

Yeah, don't get me wrong, I just find it ironic. I wish I could find the articles on the way back machine speaking about the citizen journalists with camcorders displacing the "major media." It is happening... it's just sort of fun that it's getting a "new" perspective or rather spin in real time.