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Key Ideas
The growth of internet and related technologies is changing the balance of power between journalists and their readers.
Journalists no longer simply feed us the news, audiences now have a voice.
The audience is in fact "the former audience".
They are no longer the passive masses, they have the tools to challenge traditional media and create media for themselves.
And when they just want to consume, they have so much more choice of what to consume.
He tells us about bloggers who have bigger audiences than many newspapers, and who have become just as influential as any specialist journalist in their sector.
The other party whose lives are changed by all this is those who are written about, "the news-makers", particularly politicians and corporations that can no longer contain and control information about themselves as they might have done before.
Gillmor's ultimate hope is that the result is going to be better for everyone. Journalism, politics and major corporations will all engage with this former audience in new ways to become more transparent and therefore trusted. The result will be better media and better democracy
Journalists no longer simply feed us the news, audiences now have a voice.
The audience is in fact "the former audience".
They are no longer the passive masses, they have the tools to challenge traditional media and create media for themselves.
And when they just want to consume, they have so much more choice of what to consume.
He tells us about bloggers who have bigger audiences than many newspapers, and who have become just as influential as any specialist journalist in their sector.
The other party whose lives are changed by all this is those who are written about, "the news-makers", particularly politicians and corporations that can no longer contain and control information about themselves as they might have done before.
Gillmor's ultimate hope is that the result is going to be better for everyone. Journalism, politics and major corporations will all engage with this former audience in new ways to become more transparent and therefore trusted. The result will be better media and better democracy
Quotations
“Big media ... treated the news as a lecture. We told you what the news was. You bought it, or you didn't. You might write us a letter; we might print it ... ”
"Tomorrow's news reporting and production will be more of a conversation or a seminar. The lines will blur between producers and consumers, changing the role of both in ways we're only beginning to grasp. The communication network itself will be a medium for everyone's voice, not just the few who can afford to buy multi-million-dollar printing presses, launch satellites, or win the government's permission to squat on the public airways."
"in the emerging world of internet-enabled communications, obfuscation and lies will work even less than before".
"Tomorrow's news reporting and production will be more of a conversation or a seminar. The lines will blur between producers and consumers, changing the role of both in ways we're only beginning to grasp. The communication network itself will be a medium for everyone's voice, not just the few who can afford to buy multi-million-dollar printing presses, launch satellites, or win the government's permission to squat on the public airways."
"in the emerging world of internet-enabled communications, obfuscation and lies will work even less than before".