Comments on: Bloggers See Selves in Many Roles http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/07/19/bloggers-see-selves-in-many-roles/ Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:40:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ponto Media » Estudo sobre bloggers http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/07/19/bloggers-see-selves-in-many-roles/comment-page-1/#comment-394 Ponto Media » Estudo sobre bloggers Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:36:59 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/07/19/bloggers-see-selves-in-many-roles/#comment-394 [...] [dica de Center for Citizen Media: Blog] [...] [...] [dica de Center for Citizen Media: Blog] [...]

]]> By: tish grier http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/07/19/bloggers-see-selves-in-many-roles/comment-page-1/#comment-393 tish grier Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:25:41 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/07/19/bloggers-see-selves-in-many-roles/#comment-393 I was delighted to read Pew's survey results this morning! It confirmed what I discovered about blogging when I first started in '04: blogs can be wonderful means of expression and communication. Developing one's voice on a blog can lead to other things, including publishing and journalism (as it has done for me) if that's what one wants from using the tool of the blog. As for bloggers who feel they are doing journalism--I'd hazard a guess that this group are the folks who could be called "citizen journalists," and that a good portion of them have a process--fact-checking, editing, etc.--that they employ before they publish. Pew's survey doesn't illuminate all that much about this group, but sometimes knowing what something isn't is an opportunity to learn what it is. I was delighted to read Pew’s survey results this morning! It confirmed what I discovered about blogging when I first started in ‘04: blogs can be wonderful means of expression and communication. Developing one’s voice on a blog can lead to other things, including publishing and journalism (as it has done for me) if that’s what one wants from using the tool of the blog.

As for bloggers who feel they are doing journalism–I’d hazard a guess that this group are the folks who could be called “citizen journalists,” and that a good portion of them have a process–fact-checking, editing, etc.–that they employ before they publish. Pew’s survey doesn’t illuminate all that much about this group, but sometimes knowing what something isn’t is an opportunity to learn what it is.

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