Tag Archives: journalism

A review of: Blogging

Suzanne Schram | 17 September 2009, 7:19 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Blogging is written by Jill Walker Rettberg. She is a blogger her self. On her blog she presents her self as “an associate professor at the University of Bergen, and I do research on how people tell stories online.” This book is part of the digital media and society series. This

Chitchat with Vision’s Website Editor

Ali Balunywa | 04 May 2009, 10:28 am | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Davis Weddi joined the New Vision in 1996 as a freelance journalist. His first story was placed on the front page of The New Vision on 1st April 1996. It was a fool’s day story of vampires attacking travellers in a bus! He was confirmed as a full time staff in 2004. He has studied in Sweden, German…

Mark Deuze on Media Work

Michael Stevenson | 17 May 2008, 5:12 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Mark Deuze, professor of Journalism and New Media at Leiden University and assistant professor at Indiana University, was the latest speaker in the ongoing New Media Research Lecture Series here at the University of Amsterdam, and spent the afternoon discussing his latest book, Media Work.

Mobile phone makes the sovereign man? Analyzing citizen journalism with Nietzsche in mind

Qilan Zhao | 10 October 2007, 12:19 am | tags: , , , , ,

Nietzsche’s criticism of the mass culture emerged along with the rise of popular literature, journalism, and the modern press. With the explosive rise of weblogs, mobile devices, and online video, traditional journalism has been contested and challenged by a new model of journalism called citizen journalism. With Nietzsche’s critique of mass society in mind, can we actually consider citizen journalism…

Review: Blog! How the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture – David Kline and Dan Burstein

Bram Nijhof | 17 September 2007, 12:35 pm | 9 comments | tags: , , , , ,

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David Kline and Dan Burstein points out that the blogosphere will transform many areas of politics, business, media and culture. In their book ‘Blog! How the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture’ they have…

We the Media – Dan Gilmor

Carolien van der Vorst | 17 September 2007, 10:13 am | tags: , , ,

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In his book ‘We the Media: Grassroots journalism by the People’, Dan Gilmor describes the development in the so called grassroots journalism. Gilmors goal is:

“[…]to persuade you that the collision of journalism and technology is having major consequences for three constituencies: journalists, newsmakers, and the audience.”

The book can roughly be divided into three parts. First Gilmor gives…