citizen journalism and mainstream media in germany
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My presentation at the Bloggerreise (Blogger Tour) des Auswärtigen Amts (Foreign Office)TRANSCRIPT
A tale of two citizen journalisms
Blogger Tour 2010Visitor‘s Programme of the Federal Republic of Germany At the Invitation of the Federal Foreign OfficeBerlin, May 14, 2010
Matthias [email protected]: @spielkamp (mainly in German...)
www.immateriblog.de (since 2003)
www.iRights.info (since 2005)
www.recherche-info.de (since 2005)
Citizen journalism in Germany
1977: Radio Dreyeckland, Freiburg i.B.- "pirate radio" (Germany, France, Switzerland) - background: fight against nuclear power plants- legalized since 1988- funding:
- dues of approx. 1.500 members- 0.01 percent of public broadcasting fees of the state
of Baden-Württemberg
Free / Citizen / Non-commercial Radio
- 81 stations in Germany- radio and TV (so called "open channels")- instituted by law and publicly financed in three
states (Bremen, Lower Saxony, Northrhein Westphalia)
taz - die tageszeitung
taz - die tageszeitung
founded 1978/79 in West Berlin by journalists and non-journalists as a response to the political and journalistic situation during and after the so-called German Autumn ("Deutscher Herbst")
taz - die tageszeitung
today an established left-wing nationwide daily with a circulation of >55.000 copies, 250 employees
indymedia
indymedia
"Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage."
Wikinews
Weblogs
- few general interest / politcal weblogs- no German equivalent to Huffington Post- no German equivalent to Spot.us or ProPublica
Weblogs
Weblogs
Weblogs
Weblogs
Weblogs
Weblogs
Crowdsourcing
- no example of crowdsourcing project by German mainstream media I know of
Crowdsourcing | Data Driven Journalism
- Open Data Network
abgeordnetenwatch.de
mapnificent.de
bundestagger
wahlversprechen.info
Crowdsourcing | Data Driven Journalism
none of these is financed or supported by mainstream media
S.B. Johnson: Five things...
S.B. Johnson: Five things...
...all sane people agree on about blogs and mainstream journalism (so can we stop talking about them now?) - August 1, 2006
S.B. Johnson: Five things...
1. Mainstream, top-down, professional journalism will continue to play a vital role in covering news events, and in shaping our interpretation of those events, as it should.
S.B. Johnson: Five things...
2. Bloggers will grow increasingly adept at covering certain kinds of news events, but not all. They will play an increasingly important role in the interpretation of all kinds of news.
S.B. Johnson: Five things...
3. The majority of bloggers won't be concerned with traditional news at all.
S.B. Johnson: Five things...
4. Professional, edited journalism will have a much higher signal-to-noise ratio than blogging; examples of sloppy, offensive, factually incorrect, or tedious writing will be abundant in the blogosphere. But diamonds in that rough will be abundant as well.
S.B. Johnson: Five things...
5. Blogs -- like all modes of contemporary media -- are not historically unique; they draw upon and resemble a number of past traditions and forms, depending on their focus.
S.B. Johnson: Five things...
So here's my proposal:if you're writing an article or a blog post about this issue, and your argument revolves around one or more of these points -- and doesn't add anything else of substance -- STOP WRITING. Pick a new topic. Move on. There's nothing to see here.
MSM
MSM - FAZ, May 3, 2010
MSM - FAZ, May 3, 2010
... the casual reader is sickend bythe smell of the gutter that arises from the blogs...
It ain't over yet...
Thank you!
Matthias [email protected]: @spielkamp
www.iRights.infoTwitter: @iRightsinfo
www.recherche-info.deTwitter: @rechercheblog
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