Australia Talks on citizen journalism!!!
UPDATE: Download of today’s broadcast on citizen journalism available here. Well worth a listen.
Aussie readers should tune in at 6PM to ABC Radio National for Australia Talks this evening. It’s about citizen journalism.
Preview from the RN’s Australia Talks website:
According to a recent study conducted by the UK’s Guardian, there’s been a serious decline in public trust for journalists over the past five years.
At the same time the internet enjoys growing popularity - the number of blogs jumped from fifty a decade ago years ago to over 50 million. People are engaging in social-networking sites (despite a prediction that 2008 would be the year of social networking fatigue) and many have turned to making their own news for so-called ‘citizen journalism’ sites.
Has the traditional media lost its authority to the internet? Have you changed where you go to for what you consider to be accurate information? And how do you decide what’s information or disinformation?
Thanks for the tip, Jason - I’ll download the digital version.
Congratulations also on the Getup! job. Will you continue your association with this site? I hope so, as I enjoy both your incisive analysis of all things media-related and the valuable collection of items you link to.