Dan Gillmor is visiting Internet, Law and Politics at HLS today.
The topic is the changing nature of the citizen in a “we the media” world.
– I asked him what he thinks about Global Voices, which we covered a few weeks ago in this class. Of course he loves it, but he said he wishes that Global Voices would call itself “journalism.” He says it would make his job easier.
– “We live in a state of perpetual beta,” Dan says. I got the sense that he thinks that’s good.
– He’s a fan of self-assembling newsrooms, such as Command Post, Center for Cooperative Research, and Oh My News.
– “I wouldn’t rely on Wikipedia for any life-changing decision,” Dan says. “Hell, I wouldn’t rely on the New York Times for a
life-changing decision. This is largely a discourse on media literacy.”
- (My aside: What does make news credible? How can we improve that online?)
– Despite his obvious bullishness about the decentralization of the media regime, “most people won’t be participants, probably,” Dan claims, “because they are too damn busy, leading their lives, spending time with their kids.”
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