Edit this eBook!
Monday, September 21st, 2009
As San Francisco braces itself to be the first major American city to not have a daily newspaper, the canary has sung as the death of print looks eminent. But what new frontiers do new media really offer? Can media democracy be maintained through new forms of citizen media that are more interactive featuring user-generated content?
Now almost anyone can be a media maker, and the whole world is literally watching, recording and listening. The divide between the producer and consumer has begun to dissolve. Crowdsourcing means that news can be created from the people experiencing the situations directly. Instead of producing content in house, aggregated content is the new king, with a whole flood of users openly sharing their photography, writing, and art.
Due to this influx of citizen media content, consumers are increasingly reluctant to pay for corporate media content, including the news. Citizens are turning towards each other for their news, as they send everything from reports on violence in Gaza, to updates on local public transit through text messages (sms), blog posts, and online videos about both local and global events. This eBook will explore everything from the commonalities between popular education and Open Source software; how raves and hip hop effect how we collect and visualize data; and how the participatory, open nature of new media technology have infected our world’s politics.
With citizens picking up cameras and mobile phones, and the old media slowly going bankrupt, there will be a critical disruption in our traditional media landscape. By capturing the essence of a new generation of new media technology, this eBook aims to sketch out these emerging forms of communication are transforming the media as we know it. In the spirit of crowdsourcing I open my essay up open source for edits. Available for download for free, I encourage you to send me your comments, edits, rants, disagreements, praise, and all other feedback to lisa@mobilerevolutions.org, and feel free to remix! I hope people will send me copies of their new versions, and I look forward to your feedback.
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“Citizen journalism” is not killing news in paper form. Of the many factors that are, it is the least of them. Of the other things that are greasing paper news’ slide down, some of them are digital, some not. I.e. growth of smaller, localized (if conglomerated), tabloid-sized, “metro” papers. It is a major seismic shift in news reporting, to be sure. One like not wholly unlike that the music distribution industry has “suffered,” after a long run of created, consolidated and exploited near-monopoly. But like music, paid news will, I predict, continue to have a paper channel. E.g. weekly magazine. They will live to tell the story. Most sectors have cried the “the end of us!” when this shift happens. It was previously predicted that malls and libraries would be closed by now. What actually happens is the industry ends up being smarter, and even stronger in some ways. And let’s not forget that 70,000 trees a week will be spared!
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