Comments on: Items that might become posts http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/02/items-that-might-become-posts/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:17:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Mathew Ingram http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/02/items-that-might-become-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-11806 Mathew Ingram Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:47:41 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/02/items-that-might-become-posts/#comment-11806 I agree, Anne -- "participatory journalism" has a kind of clinical, laboratory-type feel to it, while "citizen media" sounds like something Chairman Mao might have come up with. Just for fun sometimes, I greet my co-workers at the Globe and Mail with a hearty cheer: "Greetings, Citizen Journalist!" I guess the inability to come up with a satisfactory term for it says volumes about how much we are still struggling with what it is and what it means. Thanks for the comment. Mathew I agree, Anne — “participatory journalism” has a kind of clinical, laboratory-type feel to it, while “citizen media” sounds like something Chairman Mao might have come up with. Just for fun sometimes, I greet my co-workers at the Globe and Mail with a hearty cheer: “Greetings, Citizen Journalist!”

I guess the inability to come up with a satisfactory term for it says volumes about how much we are still struggling with what it is and what it means.

Thanks for the comment.

Mathew

]]> By: Anne http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/02/items-that-might-become-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-11798 Anne Sat, 03 Jun 2006 13:23:49 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/02/items-that-might-become-posts/#comment-11798 Great set of links here. Thanks. I prefer "participatory media" to "citizen journalism" too. Calling bloggers journalists sets them up for the kind of critique Tim O'Reilly launched last week; e.g., why didn't the bloggers who commented on the service mark issue do the same fact checking the NY Times did? Um, because we're not journalists for the most part and we don't own our own fact checking departments. But "participatory media" doesn't quite capture it for me either. That makes it sound like some sort of interactive TV show where the audience merely gets to choose what ending is shown. I'm going to think on it some more. Great set of links here. Thanks.

I prefer “participatory media” to “citizen journalism” too. Calling bloggers journalists sets them up for the kind of critique Tim O’Reilly launched last week; e.g., why didn’t the bloggers who commented on the service mark issue do the same fact checking the NY Times did? Um, because we’re not journalists for the most part and we don’t own our own fact checking departments.

But “participatory media” doesn’t quite capture it for me either. That makes it sound like some sort of interactive TV show where the audience merely gets to choose what ending is shown. I’m going to think on it some more.

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