Live blogging 16:00 Big Idea 3: Conversation with Richard Sambrook (BBC)-interviewed by Andrew Nachison (Media Center) Question: Have you heard anything here that has opened your eyes to send you thinking in another direction? RS: We easily get trapped in either/or mindset: MSM vs. Bloggers, get over it. We live in a remixed mash-up world. […]
14.10 session moderated by Paul Holmes (Reuters), with (left to right on stage) George Brock (The Times), Helen Boaden (BBC), David Gyimah (Video Journalist), RachelNorthLondon (blogger), Andrew Hawken (MSN.com) Live blogging: Paul Holmes introduces the session, with a video of 4 minutes talking about citizen journalism’s role in the London bombings, RachelNorthLondon (http://rachelnorthlondon.blogspot.com/) talks about […]
Future Forward is the name given to the small exhibition in the BBC studio where today’s Wemedia global sessions are being held. British Telecom mans a small stand, showing off the early results of a research project modestly called ‘New media for a new millennium‘ (NM2) . Future Forward is the name given to the […]
In the Ciziten Journalism Forum being held right now, the main question is: “What can we do to energise this army of citizen journalists out there?” A short BBC item first highlighted how many videos and images made by citizens are already part of mainstream news reporting. Tsunamis, bombings, floodings, accidents: there is little that […]
Richard Dreyfuss, Actor and Activist Commented on previous panel—– – Entertainment. The future of network news. It wasn’t meant to make money. Now it’s all about profit. Part of the Oxford U Research in teaching curriculum. Not teaching civics affects the Republic of Democracy. Sovereignty given over to Special Interests. * Reason* Logic Old rules […]
The WeMedia conference is about ‘a society connected by digital networks’ and most of the discussion revolves around the new relations between audiences and traditional media companies. So far little has been said about specific technology advances – we know about blogs, we do, but what else is out there? One of the companies showing […]