1. Blogging: the (re)birth of citizen journalism? By Evgeny Morozov,Transitions Online Prague, March 22/2007

2. Thats citizen media in the 70s... 3. Fanzines & Zines: first examples User-Generated Content (UGC) 4. Self-published Samizdat Counterculture Low Budget Self-expression/not $$$ DIY Community Easy to produce 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. DIY: from counterculture to mainstream 11. + 12. 13. % of Population Going Online Source: State of the News Media 2007 14. I N T E R N E T 15. Internet: more and better 16. Web 2.0 17. 18. FLICKR 19. YouTube 20. WordPress 21. 22. Technorati 23. 24. Result? 25. 26. Blog @ Google 27. TOP 10 28. What do most blogs write about? 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. Political blogs: Echo Chambers? Source: Adamic, Glance, Blogosphere and 2004 US election 38. Outside of TOP10: weird, but good 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. Source: Citizen Media, Fad or Future of the News, Feb2007, JLAB Value of Citizen Journalists 60. 61. 62. ZeroAssignments Objective is to test "whether large groups of widely scattered people, working together voluntarily on the net, can report on somethingappening in their world right now, and by dividing the work wisely tell the story more completely. 63. Questions? [email_address] 64. disclaimer: I've done my best to attribute slides, graphs and screenshots used in this presentation. Nobody is perfect, and some of them may have slipped in unclaimed apologies to the original right holders. Let's hope that my frivolous use of your graphs or tables falls under fair use ;-)