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Blogging Communities Spurred To Action, Leonard Witt
Blogging Communities Spurred To Action, Leonard Witt
Faculty and Research Publications
The article discusses the use of blogs to raise awareness of civil rights and social justice issues. When the public recognizes the invaluable role that high-quality journalism plays in social action, the author says that social media and journalism will become truly linked in common purpose. He suggests making the coverage of civil rights and social justice issues the core of a digital news organization or creating such content in partnership with other journalistic enterprises. He believes that if various online communities can find ways to come together in common purpose, they can come up with a new model of …
Constructing A Framework To Enable An Open Source Reinvention Of Journalism, Leonard Witt
Constructing A Framework To Enable An Open Source Reinvention Of Journalism, Leonard Witt
Faculty and Research Publications
When the Los Angeles Times unveiled its Wikitorial, an open source experiment in commons-based editorial writing, it was shut down within two days as malicious trolls began to fill it with obscene photos. The editorial page editors apparently didn’t understand how commons-based peer production works. As journalism institutions consider commons-based peer production, known interchangeably as We Media, Open Content, Open Source Journalism, Participatory Journalism, Citizen Journalism, and Citizen Media, they would be well advised to consider a framework built on the past experiences learned by commons-based peer production in other areas. This article builds on open source/open content literature and …
This Movement Won’T Be Buried, Leonard Witt
This Movement Won’T Be Buried, Leonard Witt
Faculty and Research Publications
Presents an outlook on reports of public journalism's demise in the U.S. Motivation of public journalists; Evidence of the enduring presence of public journalism in U.S. society; Financial resources of public journalism.