User-generated content
Number of views for a single news release
60,000 for some on Stanford University’s public relations portal, a staff member told Ars Technica.
Will collaborative, user-driven journalism reshape reporting?
As more activities traditionally carried out on desktop computers continue to move to “the cloud” – online data centers that host everything from video editing software to office applications to e-mail – so is the reporting process. Some users see it as a way to do journalism in areas where no one else is, while [...]
Consumers of user-generated content
155,000,000 U.S. Internet users in the year 2013, according to estimates from research firm eMarketer.
Let users suggest, then vote among questions or ideas
Google Moderator lets you create polls where users can decide between competing questions, suggestions or ideas. Except it’s different than a traditional poll in that you, the creator, don’t have to provide the ideas for users to choose among. Instead, the tool harnesses the power of the crowd to create the ideas and to moderate [...]
Are bloggers journalists?
There are people in the States right now tying themselves into knots, trying to figure out whether or not bloggers are journalists. And the answer to that question is, it doesn’t matter, because that’s not the right question. Journalism was an answer to an even more important question, which is, how will society be informed? [...]
Not all online content producers are journalists
The popular claim that ‘we are all journalists now’ must be refuted; perhaps we are all producers of online content, but the great values associated with journalism must be nurtured to ensure the high quality reporting that a thriving democracy has the right to expect. — Ernest Wilson, Dean of the USC Annenberg School for [...]