In the comments of this week’s discussion starter, William Smale asks, “Who is connected and the corollary of who is not connected? Is the northern hemisphere more connected then the southern hemisphere? Is the so-called developed world more connected than the developing worlds?” William’s understanding of connectedness, at least in this instance, is about technology […]

Should we wait for a random start-up to come up with some new Web technology to find out about the next major change of the media that defines our society? In a connected society, media are the shared stories modulated over the diverse connections available to its participants. Every well-connected society shares a diversity of […]

I want to thank everyone who participated in the discussion this week about Trust in the Media. Its just about time to wind down this part of the discussion and for me to pass the moderator baton to one of my colleagues. The next area of focus as we lead up to the We Media […]

The Latinobarometer regularly meaures in which institutions do Latin Americans hold the most “confianza” (confidence, trust). In 2005, the top three institutions, and only ones above 50%, were the fire department, the (Catholic) Church and radio (in that order). The next two are newspapers and television. Predictably, the bottom three institutions with the lowest amount […]

Trust you? Yeah, right. That’s what I used to say to anti-abortion demonstrators when I was writing for mainstream media. I meant it at at the time, but they were wrong to trust me. Because the story that got printed ended up showing them in a somewhat skewed light. Not because I meant to do […]

Lots of fascinating entries on the subject, which is key to communication. But surely here is a classic case of where the media is trying to eat its cake, have it, while at the same time saying that the cake that that other media guy baked will make you hurl. Media outlets say: Don’t trust […]

Brian suggests that a new definition of trust may arise out of the upcoming We Media event in London. Well here’s a recipe for trust, one that admittedly was designed to describe good trusted advisors. And it’s relevant even at the macro level as trust tends to be highly personal. Here is a simple model […]

This week’s theme of trust is significant because I think trust is what drives people to read blogs. They trust the author.What is trust?Trust is acceptance. You accept what the blogger has posted. I read blogs that I trust. Why do you trust someone (or some thing)? I think trust comes from experience. Whether it […]

One of the core themes of the upcoming We Media Global Forum is trust — or specifically, “How trust and empowerment shape our global, connected society.” At the big-think event in London early next month we will get our first look at the BBC-Reuters-Media Center global poll on trust and no doubt spend a good […]

Here on morph, we’ll begin to explore the main themes of the conference. Each week, a discussion opener will outline the main issues expected to be covered in the forum sessions: Week 1: Trust (Forum session: The Power of Trust) Week 2: How media is changing society (Forum session: The Role of Media in the […]