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There aren’t many web2.0 critics out there. Most of the technology analysts seem to be agreeing that digital innovations are a move in the right direction with more interactivity, usefulness, relevance… and so forth.
The hype and the social components of blogs make it very difficult for Internet cynics to criticise it.
One of the most well [...]
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“Fait divers” is a very interesting notion, however I am not sure how to translate it in English! Maybe by something like: ‘news in brief’ regarding media information… This expression has evolved and is now used for any kind of sensational news. It basically means: an event with no historical importance. Most of the time, [...]
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I really like this article from the Guardian about amateurs journalists. The football & music analogies are relevant and make the same point than convergence culture: ‘old and new media’ aren’t antinomic.
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I think that this is worth sharing this report with everyone (at least the readers of this blog!) I’ve discovered a link on Francis Pisani’s blog about a Nieman report (Harvard University) called ‘Goodbye Gutenberg’ dealing with the state of journalism in the age of the internet.
The report includes papers such as: [...]
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Since everyone could be a potential journalist one day by being at the wrong place at the wrong time! Scoopt (a site that enables people to sell their picture to the press) has been putting together a top ten tips list to taking good pictures. So if you want to start hunting for the next [...]
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I’m not going to talk about Henry Jenkins’ books; however I’ve been noticing a new kind of Convergence Culture recently. Some online version of French newspaper (Le Monde and Le Figaro) is now using video sites such as You Tube and Dailymotion. This is traditional media (TV) going through new media (You Tube…) and then [...]
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