Posts under ‘Center for Citizen Media’

Many thanks to Dan Kennedy for his long and kind article in the current Commonwealth Magazine, in which he accurately captures my main goal: “to help the nascent citizen-journalism movement raise its standards and boost its influence, while also helping mainstream media organizations use technology to reach out to what he likes to call the […]

We’ve heard from a couple of people in the past month or so about comments they wrote that didn’t make it onto the site. Apologies for this. Here’s how the comments work here, and what probably happened. First, while we don’t require registration by comment posters, we do ask that you include an email address […]

I’m speaking tomorrow and Wednesday at the Internet Hungary conference. Then I’ll be in Spain to do the keynote at I Congreso Internacional de Nuevo Periodismo, a conference on new media. Postings may be somewhat sporadic.

As noted in an earlier posting, the Sunlight Foundation has awarded us one of its “Transparency Grants” for a test in California. As the foundation noted, we intend to develop an Election Year Demonstration Project for citizen journalism in one Congressional district. CCM will oversee the creation of a website that will seek to cover […]

LA Times: Lonelygirl15’s revelation: It’s all just part of the show. After amateur sleuths uncovered apparent links between the Creative Artists Agency and the official lonelygirl15 MySpace page, a statement claiming to be from “The Creators” was posted on the lonelygirl15 website late Thursday. It read in part: “Our intention from the outset has been […]

Many thanks to the Sunlight Foundation, which has awarded us one of its “Transparency Grants” for a test in California. It’s to develop an Election Year Demonstration Project for citizen journalism in one Congressional district. CCM will oversee the creation of a website that will seek to cover everything that can possibly be reported on […]

Also posted at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society: If citizen journalism is to become a valuable part of the media ecosystem, citizen journalists will need help in navigating increasingly choppy legal waters — and the legal community will need better information on what’s happening in the citizen media arena as well. Those are […]

I’m at the Incheon airport, heading home, after a conference that has, by turn, inspired and amazed me. The OhmyNews Citizen Journalism Forum, which concluded last evening with a dinner in Seoul, brought together people from around the world to share experiences and ideas about their work. It’s been a remarkable several days. Although I […]

Ethan Zuckerman writes: Gary Chapman, professor at UT Austin and director of the 21st Century Project, closes the conference with a speech on “Citizen Journalism and the Digital Divide”, a topic near and dear to my heart. He starts by explaining that “digital divide” is a term that’s falling out of favor, and that people […]

Ethan Zuckerman writes: Craig Newmark, the founder and chief customer support person for Craigslist, is an awfully busy guy for someone who describes himself as “tremendously lazy”. His laziness around citizen’s media comes from the fact that he wants to change the world, but is working by ” help other people help other people change […]