Last wednesday I had a final oral exam, and the main topic was citizen journalism and user generated content. You can find the pdf with some thoughts on citizen journalism here. It’s in german, sorry English speakers. Did I mention, it was my last exam and I finish studying journalism?
Diesmal zu spät, aber besser als gar nicht angekündigt. Heute um 12 Uhr an der Universität Dortmund in der Veranstaltung “Junior Research Lunch” der Amerikanistin Eriko Ogihara ein Vortrag über Thema und Methode von mir. EF50, Raum 3.208a. Hier die Folien.
On the 23 Chaos Communication Conference (23c3) in Berlin I held a presentation on quality and media activism/ citizen journalism in the workshop room on Haecksen Day. You can find the pdf here. Before I was able to finish the first part of the presentation on the content quality in journalism and the different academic [...]
“Qualitätspudding”, funny term found on page 5. Means something like “jelly of quality”, and is used here to describe somewhat easy and surface-scratching trials to define quality in journalism and media. I like the word so much, that I let it lead and help me in this weekends workload on quality.
Now, this has been a bad summer. Maybe you know these "incidences" which all happen at once, while you have to write your final thesis for finishing studies and finally getting your degree. At least, some of my colleagues said, that this is typical for this time in the life of people. However, I am [...]
Global Activism, Global Media Different case studies and analysis dealing with NGOs, Third World and development topics as well as civil society, peace movement and environment activism. While criticism of media is broadly done among activists, analyzing and finding strategies to cope with nowadays media structures and practice is seldom. Although it should be done [...]
Yesterday was womens day, and: Blog against sexism day. According to this blogs mission, here is a search in scholar.google.com, Googles new search engine for academic literature, a search for the terms "gender media". Check out and read: gender&media@scholar.google.com
This book is a bibliography and adress collection of several independent media groups and networks in the USA. The “Project Censored” seems to be run by student (and other) volunteers for finding out about important news, that didn’t make thier way into the media, it obviously exists for 28 years now. Its german follower seems [...]
Chris Atton is recently working at the School of Communication Arts in Edinborough, Scotland, UK. He is working on Alternative Media, the Internet and Media Criticism. Sage Publications, OurMedia, The last big collected edition of Atton is about the Internet in all its niches for alternative publication. It also steps in to the “far (political) [...]
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