New Media and the citizen participation

Weiwen Bao(Melody)

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Outline

• Convergence or divergence

• New Old Media and New New Media

• Whether professional journalists will be replaced?

Convergence V.S. Divergence

Homogenization?

• ‘we are not living in a global village, but in a customized cottage globally produced and locally distributed.’ (Castells 2000 quoted by Meikle,G 2009)

• Content convergence

• Content, computing and communication

• Search engine

• Traditional news: Narrative

• Online news: database• technological convergence could make

possible a new era of divergence, characterized by many-to many, decentralized communications. (Poster)

• New Old Media

• New New Media• Automation

• Personalization• Participation

• http://news.google.com.au/

• http://indymedia.org

Not hire professional journalists?

Nope!

• Not professionally trained

• Experience

• News resource?• Ethics and law

Conclusion

• Journalists are filters, explicators and guides

Reference• Meikle, G 2009, Interpreting News,New York: Palgrave

Macmillan, pp.170-195• Potter, D 2008, ‘What is News’, Handbook of

Independent Journalism, US State Department,http://www.america.gov/st/dempcracuhrenglish/2008/April/20080416211618eaifas0.8870203.htmlFlew, Terry & Wilson 2008, Journalism as Social

Networking: The Australian youdecide project and the 2007 Federal election, Theory, Practice and Criticism

Clyde H B,2008, Citizen Journalism: back to the future, Discussion paper for the Carnegie-Knight Conference on the Future of Journalism, Cambrige, June21-22, 2008

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