Mainstream Media and Bloggers
CategoriesHistory prof and blogger Juan Cole has a good piece about Mainstream Media and Bloggers that lays out some of the thesis/antithesis dynamics I referred to in my April 19th entry Open Source Journalism and Public Framing of Issues -- especially the movement from centralized and corporate-dependent journalism to distributed and independent journalism. Cole doesn't mention the move from pseudo-objectivity (mainstream media) to free subjectivity (blogs), which is also part of the picture. As noted in Open Source Journalism and Public Framing of Issues, the next movement will (hopefully) be to co-created multiple-viewpoint media produced by inter-subjective citizen journalism.
posted by Tom Atlee on Wednesday April 27 2005
updated on Saturday September 24 2005URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/tom_atlee/2005/04/27/mainstream_media_and_bloggers.htm
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