Category: Civic media

Sustaining democracy in the digital age

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America needs “informed communities,” places where the information ecology meets people’s personal and civic information needs. | Read more.

In: Civic media, Collaboration, Collective knowledge, Communications, Curation, Journalism, Noted, Social curation, Society, Transparency

Digital First, Print Last: Journal Register’s John Paton

“To be in the News business now means you must run your business as Digital First.  And that means Print Last. Print Last because that is how this new world works. Print is a slow medium and digital is fast. Atoms will never beat bits…. “Digital First strategy is centered on the cost effective creation … | Read more.

In: Civic media, Journalism, Noted, Open Web, Society

Towards a new civic ecology by @henryjenkins

“The contemporary communications system is at once struggling with the threat that many major news outlets which have been the backbone of civic information over the past century are crumbling in the face of competition from new media. We may not be able to count on the traditional newspaper, news magazine or network newscast to … | Read more.

In: Civic media, Collaboration, Commons, Communications, Favorites, Noted, Social curation, Society, Technology, Transformation
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