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(Crossposted from snurb.info - for full coverage of the CCi conference, see here.)
Brisbane.The post-lunch session at the CCi conference starts for me with a panel on citizen journalism which involves my colleague Jason Wilson from Youdecide2007 (and Gatewatching.org), Larvatus Prodeo’s Mark Bahnisch, and Graham Young from Online Opinion. Their theme is the role of citizen [...]

(Crossposted from snurb.info - for full coverage of the CCi conference, see here.)
Brisbane.The next plenary speaker in this very enjoyable session on day two of the CCi conference is Margaret Simons, asking the question “What are journalists for?” She begins by noting the role of the Australian Press Council, long perceived as a publishers’ poodle, [...]

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Brisbane.We’re now in the final session of the first day at the CCi conference, which I’ll try to chair and blog at the same time - we’ll see how it goes. My colleague Terry Flew is the first presenter, and he begins by [...]

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Brisbane.The next session I’m attending at the CCi conference is also (broadly) on citizen journalism. Andrew Kenyon from the University of Melbourne is the first speaker, and his focus is especially on the legal perspective on journalism as public speech, building on interviews [...]

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Brisbane.We’re now starting the first panel session of the CCi conference, and this is the panel on citizen journalism that my paper is in as well, so I’m including the Powerpoint below (audio to be added later available now).
The first speaker is David [...]

Gary Sauer-Thompson alerts us today to a very, very peculiar piece by David Burchell on something he calls the “political blogosphere”. Burchell’s version doesn’t much resemble the one I know. I’ll quote a little:
At other times it seems the wheels of the political blogosphere are greased with the oil of personal vitriol.
Indeed, on one view [...]

There’s not a lot of detail on the programme at this stage, but the MEAA and the Walkley Awards are co-hosting a conference, “Public Affairs in the Age of Rudd“, in Canberra on the 19th and 20th of August. If it’s anywhere near as stimulating as the the “Future of Journalism”, it’s bound to be [...]

For those of our readers following the US Presidential campaign and wanting to look beyond mainstream coverage, Henry Jenkins has a nice overview of a few citizen journalism projects which aim to provide alternative perspectives on the election race.
It’s nice to see the emphasis on first-hand reporting here (which was also a key aspect of [...]

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 [...]

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The last months have been enormously productive (and, at times, exhausting!) for me. In addition to my own book Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage, I’ve also contributed to a number of other publications - and quite a few of them are now finally available in print and/or online.

In [...]