US Department of State’s International Information Programs has just launched an electronic journal on media, Media Emerging
Dale Peskin and Andrew Nachison, co-director and director of The Media Center, contributed the lead story, “Emerging Media Reshape Global Society.”
Take a look – it covers many of the themes we’ll see at the We Media Global Forum.
And now I must lie down for a rest… Great read Dale, Andrew.
It’s as if Thomas Kuhn’s opus The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has leapt from the petri dish into, and bursted, this media bubble which had relatively tiny numbers of producers compared with consumers.
Historians will often comment that the present has at some point showed its hand in the past.
But how ambitious is it to posit the belief that this era represents a fundamental paradigm shift?
And the scary or fantastic thing, depending on your POV, is how swiftly the onset of the digital reformation is taking shape.
Does this mean that the State Department will start using blogs to promote their ideas? (unless they don’t already). Many seem to think that they already exist in the form of pro-US Iraqi bloggers.
Very interesting. Glad to see DOS jumping on the bandwagon (a bit late though.)