From Lecture to Conversation

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From Lecture to Conversation

Dan Gillmor

Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship

Center for Citizen Media

Highway Africa

September 8, 2008

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Media Shift

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Media 0.1

Media 0.5

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Media 1.0

Media 1.1

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Media 1.5

Media 2.0

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Media 2.5

Media 3.0

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‘Democratized’

!Not in the sense of voting...

!...but Participation

–Production

–Access

A Read-Write Web

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Consumers <==> Creators

Creators <==> Collaborators

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Who is a Journalist?

(More Important: What is Journalism?)

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AND, not OR

Lecture

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Conversation

The First Rule ofConversation:

Listen.

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Traditional Media Use Democratized Tools

Staff Blogs/Comments

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Database Journalism

Web 2.0

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Combinations

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Multimedia Combinations

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“Help Us Investigate...”

“Cover the Hurricane”

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“Leser-Reporters”

Remember: Even if MediaDon’t Ask...

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...People Will Do It Themselves

They Have Done it Before

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Good News:

Experimentation is Inexpensive

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Low Cost Innovation:

Best opportunity in history to be a

journalistic entrepreneur

Bootstrapping

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New Media Startups

For Profit

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Not for Profit

For People

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Trust, and a New Role For All Journalists

Too Much Information

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Is It Accurate? Trustworthy?

Not Necessarily, in a

‘Photoshop’ World

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(New) Media Literacy

Teach Basic Principles(For Audience)

!Skepticism

!Judgment

!Research

!Free thinking

!Techniques

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Teach Basic Principles(For All Journalists, Pro and Citizen)

!Thoroughness

!Accuracy

!Fairness

!Independence

!Transparency

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