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Introduction: Transformation and Continuity
No full textFirst paragraph of introduction: News matters. It remains the main forum for discussion of issues of publicimportance. It offers an arena in which journalists and media firms,politicians, other high-status sources of information, and audiences cometogether to inform, persuade, influence, endorse or reject one another in acollaborative process of making meaning from events. But the news ischanging in ways that are not yet well-understood. The news environment ofthe twenty-first century is being shaped by both emerging transformationsand contested continuities. Content, distribution channels, geographicalconstraints, production values, business models, regulatory approaches andcultural habits are all changing as new media technologies are adopted andadapted by users, often in unexpected ways. Established media organisationsare in many cases struggling to adapt to a changed environment - eventhough, paradoxically, they have driven many of the changes themselves
News produsage in a pro-am mediasphere : why citizen journalism matters
No full textThe rise to prominence of citizen journalism is usually described as a paradigm shift in the relationship between news organizations and their audiences – ‘citizen’ or ‘amateur’ journalists are positioned as inherently different from, and possibly in competition with, ‘professional’ journalists. Some journalists in the industry have taken up this theme, and are at pains to distinguish their professional, supposedly objective and accountable practices from what they describe as the opinionated and partisan ‘armchair journalism’ of amateurs, while some citizen journalists, in turn, give as good at they get and describe the professionals as lackeys of their corporate masters who (willingly or unwittingly) fall prey to political and commercial spin. In fact, the very terminology we use to describe both sides creates the impression that professionals are not also citizens, and that citizen journalists are incapable of having professional skills and knowledges; in reality, of course, the lines between them are much less clear
The Internet of Things
No full textMore objects and devices are connected to digital networks than ever before. Things – from your phone to your car, from the heating to the lights in your house – have gathered the ability to sense their environments and create information about what is happening.
Things have become media, able both to generate and communicate information.
Mercedes Bunz and Graham Meikle discuss the internet of things' promises of convenience and the breaking of new frontiers in communication. They also raise urgent questions regarding ubiquitous surveillance, networked sensors, and artificial intelligence, as well as the transformation of intimate personal information into commercial data
Chatting with the Guardian Science Podcast
No full text<p>In 2011, Graham Steel and James O’Malley sat down with Alok Jha, Mo Costandi and James Meikle from the Guardian to discuss science reporting and related issues.</p>
<p>In this section we covered</p>
<p>Including links to Science Manuscripts in online news articles and</p>
<p><br>George Monbiot’s Guardian article “Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist”</p
Subverting the Versions. "Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet" by Graham Miekle. [review]
No full textIn "Future Active", Graham Meikle roams the electronic landscape picking out highlights and lowlights. Like all travellers, what he finds is influenced by his interests and perspectives. Sometimes this leads to illuminating insights; sometimes Hawthorne marvelled at what he might have seen but didn’t.Australia Council, La Trobe University, National Library of Australia, Holding Redlich, Arts Victori
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