“One day I wake up and there’s an armored personnel carrier right outside my house. I tweet about it, and the next thing I know I’m a citizen journalist.”
- Solomon King, Ugandan blogger and founder of blog aggregator Blog Spirit
Citizen journalism is a wonderful force for democracy. I’ve blogged before about citizen media in Africa, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘digital divide’
More than news: citizen media in Uganda
May 2nd, 2010
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Bridging the digital gap
January 31st, 2010
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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?” [...]
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 [...]
