Smart mobs and journalism
9:37am Friday, 11th July 2003
Howard Rheingold predicts that control of the new 'mediaspace' represented by the collision of next generation mobiles and blogging is up for grabs. This represents an opportunity to tip balance in favour of a democratised, peer-to-peer form of media. However, he reckons, the thing to watch is not the technology - which is already cheap and accessible - but whether the practice of journalism itself can become a distributed activity.
OJR article: Moblogs Seen as a Crystal Ball for'a New Era in Online Journalism
Howard Rheingold predicts that control of the new 'mediaspace' represented by the collision of next generation mobiles and blogging is up for grabs. This represents an opportunity to tip balance in favour of a democratised, peer-to-peer form of media. However, he reckons, the thing to watch is not the technology - which is already cheap and accessible - but whether the practice of journalism itself can become a distributed activity.
OJR article: Moblogs Seen as a Crystal Ball for'a New Era in Online Journalism
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