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1: Paul Levinson vs. Jesse Ventura on media sensationalism

If You Can't Trust The NewYork Times Who Can Ya!

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

Rethinking the way we understand you and me.

The Answer

Documentary (Do androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

This is Turining Readers into Reporters

Participatory journalism is a bottom-up, emer­gent phenomenon in which there is little or no editorial oversight or formal journalistic work-­flow dictating the decisions of a staff. Instead, it is the result of many simultaneous, distributed conversations that either blossom or quickly at­rophy in the Web’s social network.

Will mainstream media willing to relinquish some control and actively collaborate with their audiences? Or will an informed and empowered consumer begin to frame the news agenda from the grassroots?

Even this blog is considered peer to peer journalism. In fact it is even published to on line news outlets like Google reader, Digg, and others that I may not even know about. Even you the reader can scroll down to the bottom of this Blog site, click subscribe and be regularly updated on your Google reader or home page. Blogger life is the new news media.

Top Down Vs. Bottom UP

“Blogs are in some ways a new form of journal­ism, open to anyone who can establish and main­tain a Web site, and they have exploded in the past year,” writes Walter Mossberg, technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

Participatory journalism: The act of a citizen, or group of citizens, playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information.

This form of journalism is in direct contrast with its counterpart and traditional form of Top down journalism, where the mandates of Advertisers and interests of media corporation owners and investors matter so much. In essence, top down journalism is a form of hegemony, which is the dominance of one group over another. In this case Big media dictates the news to the mass public based partly on their own interests $.

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