Posts under ‘Center for Citizen Media’

Ethan Zuckerman writes from the OhmyNews citizen-journalism event: Dan Gillmor leads off the conference in Seoul with an overview of some of the high points of Web 2.0, including the Bush/Blair lipsynch video, which always gets a good laugh. (What’s Dan going to do if Blair resigns, I wonder?) His point is that audio and […]

Here are a few more details about the one-day gathering we’re planning for August 7 at Harvard Law School, the day after the Wikimania conference ends. I’m speaking at Wikimania, and hope to see some of you there as well as at our event. The purpose is to brainstorm some key aspects of citizen journalism, […]

I’m heading to Berlin to the International Institute for Journalism, a project that helps train journalists from around the world, mostly developing nations. I’ll be doing a series of lectures and workshops about blogging and citizen journalism over two days, and am planning to have the students (most of whom are already professional journalists) create […]

Thanks again to Columbia University for inviting me this week to give the annual Hearst New Media Lecture. The audience was terrific and asked great questions (I don’t have a transcript of that part, sorry.) What follows is the talk as I wrote it out, beginning after the various thank-yous to the folks who invited […]

Just a reminder to my New York-area friends that I’m giving the annual Hearst New Media Lecture this Thursday evening at Columbia University Journalism School. I’m honored to have been asked, and will be discussing ways that new media can help us do an even better job at living up to the fundamental principles of […]

I’ll be giving the third in a series of talks/conversations — this time will be much more in the seminar style than the previous events — at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. It’ll be Wednesday evening at the center, starting at 7 p.m. There will be beverages and dessert-type munchies. If […]

As noted last Friday, we’re going to look deeply into what traditional news organizations are doing to engage their communities (of interest and/or geography) in the journalism process. Here’s an outline, prepared in large part by Olivia Ma at Harvard University, of how we propose to look at this. We’d like to hear your ideas. […]

The Center for Citizen Media is going to be looking hard at the current state of the art in grassroots content. Over time, we aim to look broadly and deeply at who’s getting into it and why. As part of that research, of the first things we’re going to examine closely is what traditional media […]

April 5, Berkeley, California: Rise of Grassroots Journalism April 7-8, Ohio University Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics and the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism: Blogging and Online Journalism: New Media, New Challenges, New Ethics April 13, Montpelier, Vermont: Lecture and Discussion April 16-20, Cambridge, Mass. with public talk on April 19 at Harvard […]

Bryan Alexander: Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?