Feed me Whiskey- “The Author as Producer” by Walter Benjamin
- “A Little Birdie Told Me” via The Toronto Star
- Indymedia.org by Dorothy Kidd
- “News Quality Differences in Online Newspaper and Citizen Journalism Sites” by Serena Carpenter
- Panopticism as explained by Michel Foucault
- G2: Life Through a Lens” via The Guardian
- Photos of Gang Rape go Viral” via the Globe and Mail
- The Crisis of Journalism and the Internet
- In Praise of Scribes
- Dr. Gonzo or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Bias, and Love the Slant
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The Crisis of Journalism and the Internet
Reflecting on Robert W. McChesney’s “The Crisis of Journalism and the Internet”… In an earlier post I said there are those suggesting that we’re in the early stages of a new social reform, one that will include drastic changes to … Continue reading
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Tagged journalism, media reform, online journalism, professional journalism, Robert W. McChesney
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In Praise of Scribes
“OUR SOCIAL TOOLS REMOVE OLDER OBSTACLES TO PUBLIC EXPRESSION, AND THUS REMOVE THE BOTTLENECKS THAT CHARACTERIZED MASS MEDIA. THE RESULT IS THE MASS AMATEURIZATION OF EFFORTS PREVIOUSLY RESERVED FOR MEDIA PROFESSIONALS.” Recently I read Chapter 3 of Clay Shirky’s 2008 … Continue reading
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Tagged amusing ourselves to death, citizen journalism, clay shirky, everyone is a media outlet, here comes everyone, in praise of scribes, johannes gutenberg, johannes trithemius, journalism, marshall mcluhan, media reform, neil postman, printing press, Public Journalism
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THE WHISKEY DIARY 