Made a wonderful discovery today when I stumbled upon the BBC’s Virtual Revolution project. It’s a documentary series, presented by journalist and academic Dr Aleks Krotoski, examining the internet throughout its twenty years of existence – how it has shaped our world, our opinions, and how we interact with one another. Episode One, “The Great Levelling?” [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Democracy’
“Every crowd is a mob in the making”
January 4th, 2010
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- Authors Alan Alop and Doc Noel made a good point. Ok, so their “mob in the making” was a reference to the 1907 baseball team the Chicago Cubs; while I’m talking about citizen journalism on the web… but great minds, eh?
I’ve said throughout my blog so far that citizen journalism is an important force for democracy. [...]
The wonderful world of Wikipedia
November 30th, 2009
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Ok so it’s not traditional citizen journalism, but an article on Wikipedia caught my eye in yesterday’s Sunday Times, and I wanted to explain how it’s a whole lot more relevant than we think to the citizen journalism revolution taking over the media world. Wikipedia’s own article on Wikipedia is possibly a good place to [...]
Democracy and the digital divide
October 13th, 2009
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Two things to discuss today. Firstly, I learnt how to link! Many apologies for my lack of technological know-how and the messy url-inclusion in my previous posts. But this is a whole new me. I can link to this, and this, and even this (and even something relevant if you keep reading..I promise). The whole [...]
