‘Media’ has changed more in the last five years than it did in the 500 years before. Search engines, user-generated content and social networks are interesting new additions to the media landscape. Through them, power and control have shifted to consumers from publishers and broadcasters. As the world evolves from a one-to-many broadcast model to a many-to-many conversation, the way journalists reach audiences needs to change as well.
Dan Gillmor believes that until recently, news was always a “lecture” in which big media companies “told you what the news was.” Now he sees news as a “conversation” in which “lines will blur between producers and consumers, changing the role of both in ways we’re only beginning to grasp.” In this new age, “the spreading of an item of news, or of something much larger, will occur. without any help from mass media as we know it.” The result, according to Gillmor, will be news that is “bottom-up, interactive, and democratic.”
Sounds a bit like OPEN ‘09
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I lot of people who buy the local papers buy just for the births, deaths, and marragies just because it’s traditional. Anyone who produces a digital equivalent will get the attention of the advertisers.
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Their are people in a bubble: (academia)
People looking to collaborate outside their bubble; (students)
and, people who have to work outside the bubble (industry)
where the main points I got from OPEN09