Considering Citizen Journalism
By J. Richard Stevens, Ph.D.
A presentation to Sandra Fish's Principles of Journalism class,
September 16, 2009.
Journalism Defined
JOUR-nalism (French, "the accounting of the day")
JOURNALism ("the act of recording the events of the day")
Journalism (the post-1920s industry that serves the social function of surveillance, watchdog of the government and corporate institutions and the primary interface between citizen and society)
"The news of the day as it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy."Walter Lippmann, Liberty and the News, 1920
Citizens in the right place ...
The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog
Knights for Free Water (facebook)
Virginia Tech Journalism Student Jamal Albarghouti
Map Mashups
New York in the Movies
GawkerStalker Mashup
AP Mashup
Cabspotting
Presenting Data
Is it better to buy or rent? (NYT)
Can a President tame the business cycle?
Faces of the Dead (NYT)
Word Associations
Election reaction (NYT)
Reader response analysis of Obama Administration (NYT)
Inaugural words (NYT)
"News you can use"
Battle of the Bags (MSNBC)
Seattle Transportation grid (Seattle Post-Intelligencier)
Intertextuality/Remixing
Read My Lips (Mashup Commentary)
Challenge of the SuperDuperFriends
Sunday Bloody Sunday by George W. Bush
Hillary's Baggage
Obama Girl - “I Got a Crush ... On Obama!”
The Future?
History Commons 9/11 Timeline Mashup
The Annotated New York Times
OhMyNews! (South Korea)
Uganda Witness
Student projects
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