Journalism

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This video provides explains how the media fits into political and social change and specifically addresses the following questions:

* How is the Press supposed to Work?
* How and why does the Press act like an Echo Chamber?
* How is media changing?
* What does it mean that the "news is becoming a conversation"?
* Will these new media changes affect the nature of politics?
* How does The Echo Chamber Project fit into all of this?

Featuring: Amy Goodman, Lawrence Grossman, Jim Lobe, Jonathan Landay, Richard Sambrook, Jay Rosen, Dan Gillmor, Jeff Jarvis, Doc Searls & Merrill Brown.

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Using new media technology to make the filmmaking post-production process more collaborative has uncovered some interesting theoretical insights. It has introduced some constraints that have allowed me to abstract some broader concepts that can be applied to journalism and collaborative sensemaking.

Below I explore some of the parallels between Collaborative Filmmaking, New Media Technology, Journalism, The Intelligence Cycle, Knowledge Management Pyramid and the Scientific Method...

* Constraints Can Be Good
* Scaling Up Complexity with Folksonomy Tags & Playlists
* Towards a Theory of Collaborative Sensemaking

For the past couple of days, the Drudge Report has been running excerpts from Bill Sammon's latest book "Strategery" [sic]. Today's Drudge top headline was "Bush Cheers Decline of Mainstream Media, Rise of Alternative Press" -- which provides further validation to the trend that I elaborated in this video: Government Bypassing the Press.

Sammon interviewed Bush and a number of senior advisors about the pre-election "Memogate," where Bush claims that CBS explicitly "conspired" to harm his campaign. Drudge writes that "Memogate has helped accelerate the decline of the mainstream media, generally defined as CBS, NBC, ABC, The New York Times and other establishment news outlets."

Listen to the Interview with Merrill Brown, Media Consultant, MMB Media LLC (Length: 21:15)

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Listen to the Interview with Tom Curley, President & CEO of the Associated Press (Length: 11:32)

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Listen to the Interview with Steve Rubel, Public Relations Blogger, MicroPersuasion.com (Length: 13:26)

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Footage from this interview is featured in this video: Government Bypasses Press

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October 5th, 2005

Listen to the Interview with Andrew Nachison, Director, The Media Center (Length: 9:43)

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Listen to the Interview with Lex Alexander, Citizen Journalism Coordinator, Greensboro News-Record (Length: 11:11)

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Listen to the Interview with Susan Mernit, Digital Media Consultant, 5ive (Length: 11:03)

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Listen to the Interview with Duane Elgin, Futurist & Media Activist, OurMediaVoice.org (Length: 9:46)

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July 10th, 2005