Blogging: the (re)birth of citizen journalism? By Evgeny Morozov, Transitions Online Prague, March 22/2007

That’s citizen media in the 70s...

Fanzines & Zines: first examples User-Generated Content (UGC)‏

Self-published Samizdat Counterculture Low Budget Self-expression/not $$$ DIY Community Easy to produce

DIY: from counterculture to mainstream

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% of Population Going Online Source: State of the News Media 2007

I N T E R N E T

Internet: more and better

Web 2.0

FLICKR

YouTube

WordPress

Technorati

Result?

Blog @ Google

TOP 10

What do most blogs write about?

Political blogs: Echo Chambers? Source: Adamic, Glance, “ Blogosphere and 2004 US election”

Outside of TOP10: weird, but good

Source: Citizen Media, Fad or Future of the News, Feb2007, JLAB Value of Citizen Journalists

ZeroAssignment’s Objective is… to test "whether large groups of widely scattered people, working together voluntarily on the net, can report on something appening in their world right now, and by dividing the work wisely tell the story more completely.“

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