Tag Archives: journalism

AR; Parasites or symbiotic companions?

Posted on January 14, 2011 by

Fun fact: in 2007, a significant amount percentage of readers of British online newspapers accessed the sites from the US. For instance, the average share of unique users from the USA in the total readership of the Independent was 73%; … Continue reading →

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Reblog: the newspaper extinction timeline

Posted on November 5, 2010 by

This infograph about the expected extinction of print newspapers has been circling the web for some time now, but I figured it’s worth a reblog here too. In case you haven’t seen it: the Future Exploration Network‘s graph takes into … Continue reading →

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AR; A broad concept of citizen journalism

Posted on October 12, 2010 by

Although I’ve been using the term “social news website” ever since the beginning of my research, I haven’t so far come across anyone else who would do the same. Until now, that is; as I just read Luke Goode‘s article. … Continue reading →

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AR; A new(s) sort of democracy?

Posted on July 20, 2009 by

I started to read Ewan Crawford‘s article on the opinion pages in the Scottish quailty dailies in the hope that it would supply some more tips on how to understand, conceptualize and operationalize deliberation – but in this regard I … Continue reading →

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AR; On international news and the internet

Posted on July 9, 2009 by

Guy Berger writes about how the internet affects (or at least proposes to affect) the concept, idea, practice and flow of international news (the article is about to be published in the International Communication Gazette). “This article shows that while … Continue reading →

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We are all journalists now!

Posted on May 11, 2009 by

…argues Jan Servaes in a recently published short essay on the changing role and tasks of journalism education (in the US and in Europe). We’re all journalists insofar as, once the lack of information no longer poses a problem, the … Continue reading →

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The million dollar question for the next decade

Posted on May 2, 2009 by

One need not idealize the newspaper press to recognize that to this day television, radio, and online news feed off the basic reporting that to an overwhelming extent comes from organizations whose economic survival no one knows how to guarantee. … Continue reading →

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Why does alternative journalism matter?

Posted on April 29, 2009 by

  Because professional journalism can learn from it – mostly given the fact that alternative journalism, whether online or of the more traditional sorts, relies on a firmer social basis, on a firmer connectedness between writer and audience, than professional … Continue reading →

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Hyperlocal citizen journalism

Posted on November 3, 2008 by

Here you can find an interesting paper from Bruns, Wilson and Saunders, exploring the roles that citizen journalism might assume in a networked media system. It is less revolutionary as Bruns’ article on the networked ideal model of deliberative democracy. … Continue reading →

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AR; The Future of Newspapers

Posted on October 29, 2008 by

To find out about the future, let’s look into the past. Conboy and Steel‘s article is a sobering reminder for internet revolutionaries and pessimists alike – I found the piece both interesting and well-written. Referencing Carey’s “ritual model of communication” … Continue reading →

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