The revolution within the revolution: How mobile devices and social media changed Tunisia
What is revealing about this revolution is the way in which citizens discovered it, how they informed one another, and how they mobilized around it. They used their mobile phones, now ubiquitous in North Africa, to communicate via text messaging and Twitter. For many Tunisians, their phones are their Internet. Theirs is a story about the democratization of media, a social revolution that wields the power to change lives as well as governments
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Journalism’s fifth stage of grief
Will acceptance lead to a brave new world for journalism?
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At a time when newspapers are hemorrhaging employees and questioning their survival, they are adopting a more stable role in...
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You Tube meets a Pulitzer. Can anyone win the prize?
Project:Report, You Tube’s partnership with the Pulitzer Center, is one of the most promising expressions of We Media...
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Earlier this month a New York University student went “undercover” into her own journalism classroom to report on...
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At this week’s Personal Democracy Forum, a sponsor distributed a low-tech, but highly effective stress toy to attendees...
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Here’s a chance for members of the We Media Community to get involved in something new, practical and ambitious. Bread...
Read MoreLiveblog: Informed World, The citizen’s guide to media literacy
We’re about to start this panel, located on a floor accessible only by two elevators, so people are coming in in...
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For the second year in a row we’ve documented a devastating lack of satisfaction with journalism in American –...
Read MoreSynchronicity
For class, I had my students watch the wonderful documentary, Revolution OS. It features a cast of characters that could...
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The social web depends on content, tagging and utility created or improved by the good will of the people formerly known as...
Read MoreBeing and nothingness
washingtonpost.com’s “On Being” project is simply stunning: real stories from real people based on the simple...
Read MoreConnected to the news by a generation of wired witnesses
Unaware of a shooting in a dormitory that left two people dead, Virginia Tech graduate student Jamal al Barghouti headed...
Read MoreWe Media analysis and links
I’ve been reflecting on our experiences at We Media Miami and digesting a great deal of reporting and analysis about...
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