> Innovation Agenda

Innovation Reading Circle

> Overview

The Innovation Reading Circle aims to help develop theory around innovation through rich, high-level and well-informed public discussion around key and related texts and discourses... [Read on in Objectives]

> Event

04: The Media and the public

> Titles

We The Media coverWe the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People by Dan Gillmor (O’Reilly, 2006)

Dan Gillmor is director of the Center for Citizen Media, a project affiliated with Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. From 1994-2005 he was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, and wrote a weblog for SiliconValley.com.

Participants will be sent a copy of the book directly from the publisher (if they don’t have it already). Also available from from Amazon.co.uk. Sample content available.

> Took place

7–9 pm, Monday 30 April 2007

> Venue was

Agency.com, 85 Strand, London WC2R 0DW   
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> Notices

CalendarInformation on participants who has chose to flag their attendance can be found on the listing for this event on Upcoming.org.

> Preparation

Points for discussion

Some of the questions that we plan to discuss include:

  • How real is the phenomenon of citizen journalism?
  • Would citizen journalism have taken off if the Web had been prevalent in the ’50s?
  • How has, and is, the relationship of the public and the media changing?
  • How has, and is, the role of journalism changing?
  • What are the dynamics driving citizen journalism and ‘user-generated content’?
  • Why has the media sector been so receptive to, and un-critical of, ‘user-generated content’?

Background reading

Is Wikipedia part of a new ‘global brain’? Theresa Clifford, spiked, 14 February 2007 [Summary in shared bookmark]

Imagining tomorrow's news Dan Gillmor, ACM interactions, Special Issue: HCI and the challenges of mass communications, Volume 11, Issue 2 March + April 2004 [Pay to access]

Reviews

All the news that's fit to blog Simon Waldman, Guardian, November 6, 2004

See media reviews and customer reviews on the O'Reilly Media site. See Customer Reviews on Amazon.com.

Interviews

A Conversation Between Dan Gillmor and Jay Rosen O’Reilly Network, 14/09/2004

Related titles

See LibraryThing’s recommendations. See books that cite this book on Amazon.com.

> Contact

If you have queries about the event please email   Nico Macdonald