Networked journalism
Neil Macintosh picks up the fact that Jeff Jarvis has a much better alternative to citizen journalism - 'Networked journalism'.
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I still prefer 'participatory media', because some what is happening isn't really journalism, and I hate setting up this false dichotomy between 'XYZ journalism' and 'real journalism'. Equally, many of the people participating in this media revolution have no interest in journalism per se, and I think that using the word can be unnecessarily divisive.
Posted by: Suw | July 05, 2006 at 06:46 PM
My enthusiasm for the phrase was as applied to that subset of social computing that is releated to journalism or aspires to be journalism. For the rest of it, in which I would include this blog and which is by far the majority, I would resist either journalism or media tags.
Posted by: Euan | July 05, 2006 at 11:25 PM
Yeah, there is so much variety about how people use terms. Some days I feel like I have to define what I mean by every term I use, just to make sure we're talking about the same thing.
Within your more tightly defined context, I agree that networked journalism is better than citizen journalism.
But I'm struggling to find a wider term along the 'participatory media' line that really does do what it says on the tin, and which isn't divisive. There are problems with 'media' as a term, but I can't currently think of a better one.
Posted by: Suw | July 07, 2006 at 03:30 PM