Creating digital narratives

From personal digital storytelling to mass media: how can we use mulitmedia?
Storytime is changing. Will it descend into silliness? Monty Python Storytime on YouTube from pipes90.
 
Your girlfriend’s shoe collection, an old man’s prized teddy bear, a lady’s wrinkles and a nightclub stairwell: these are gems of digital storytelling.
 
 This new way of [...]

Digging a hole for the mob

Power, equality and digital democracy? Photo by cheryl.

Utilising audience knowledge or making journalism lazy: the cull on crowd-sourcing, Jeff Howe and keeping the karma

So, I’ve been delving into the rise, the potential and the pitfalls of citizen journalism and, so far, I was starting to believe in its democratic possibilities. For all its downsides, I thought [...]

From Dialogue to Democracy?

 If user-generated content can be incorporated into Big Media publications, will the conversation be democratic?
I sent a letter to a computer games magazine when I was 11 to complain, in a general feminist manner, about a sexist article featuring a Baywatch actress and ‘risky’ comments about 14-year boy antics. To my surprise, I received a response from the editor, reading: “I [...]

Out with the old – and the new – and in with the network

Journalism is changing, but how can the media accommodate amateur and professional in its trade and still be quality assured?
Even the newness of ‘New Media’ cannot keep up with the technological advances of journalism: ‘Next Media’ is now the ‘New Media’ buzzword. Regardless of what we can call this movement, journalism is a changing industry. [...]