Comments on: On the term “citizen journalism” – from Professional Mind blower Henry Jenkins

By: Don’t Save Journalism – Save Honest Communication « DigiDave – Journalism is a Process, Not a Product

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:31:19 +0000

[...] I go back to Henry Jenkins who pinpointed why I dislike the term “citizen journalism.” [...]

By: Cody Brown - A Public Can Talk To Itself: Why The Future of News is Actually Pretty Clear

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:07:01 +0000

[...] was obviously putting it out of business. It’s the equivalent, as USC professor Henry Jenkins points out, to someone calling a Ford a ‘Horseless Carriage’ around the turn of the 19th [...]

By: citizenmedia.it » Blog Archive » Journalism è un processo, non un prodotto né una definizione passeggera…

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:01:49 +0000

[...] scoprire poi che certa ‘fuffa’ lascia davvero il tempo che trova. Lo conferma questo veloce post in cui David Cohn, tra l’altro animatore di Spot.us, rilancia una buona opinione di Henry Jenkins: il termine [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:12:23 +0000

Thanks Daniel,

I think the key to objectivity is getting as many contributing to the proposal as possible, so that all views have the potential to be merited – as with any large-scale participatory venture. A seal like that would be a great way of ‘officialising’ peer review. And I expect that a project like this could feed into ranking systems such as that used by BrooWaha – especially the rating categories.

Thanks very much for the lead. This is pretty much what I’d like to set up in Australia.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:17:36 +0000

@Ryan I think an open standard/ code of conduct for journalism would be very interesting, especially if the qualifiers were somewhat objective. Pat Thornton had an idea for an online ethics seal that seems to be very similar to what you're describing.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:53:59 +0000

do you guys think a collaborative code of practice, like an open-source/wiki-type set of online journalism principles (thou shalt not slander and lie or be paid for comment, etc) would help to bump it’s credibilty and move it away from such qualifiers as ‘participatory’? is there something like this already out there?

By: Cody Brown

Cody Brown — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:15:37 +0000

@Dave

I couldn’t agree more about a mediacrunchbase. There’s mediabistro but unless it’s just not on our radar, I’m really surprised something like this doesn’t exist yet. I’m sending you an email.

By: Digidave

Digidave — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:22:23 +0000

@cody @Daniel

For tools – I think we need better tools for collaboration like Publish2. Also check Ryan Sholin’s latest blog post.

@Cody: I think we need a crunchbase that is following all the various media/journalism startups that are happening. For all the lip service we give the idea of experimentation and then learning from it (I’m guilty of that too) we have no way of actually keeping track of how they all do.

By: Cody Brown

Cody Brown — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:49:40 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. And yes @Daniel -

We need one of these http://www.crunchbase.com/ but instead of for tech, we need it for Earth.

Workin’ on it.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:40:22 +0000

Related question: what tools do we need for citizens to do journalism better?