Trust is a paramount concept underpinning this collaborative society. I forgot to look to see who said that, but I think Andrew. It’s a two-way street, publishers and producers of media asking readers to trust them, and readers asking these producers to trust them too.
Society becomes participatory.
I’m a educational researcher who studies learning, and I’m also a former journalist and present statistician, and I know that participating requires knowledge. Lots of it. In order to be a participating citizen, you need to know a lot of things. There’s a jump between what’s being discussed here, and actually getting there, but it’s interesting to think about the possibilities without the practicalities.
There are runners in the room with microphones. Yikes. Sort of API meets Phil Donahue.
Dale says we’re actually going to act like cultural anthropologists and consider the changing cultural landscape, both in media and beyond. Now, let’s go to the videotape….
Here are images and notes from the new culture…pictures taken on a cell phone in the London Underground during the bombing evacuation, a note that the Pope Benedict has asked people to email him. Pictures of kids with Ipods, and people using phones to take pictures.
And now, into the We News panel.