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Citizen involvement in media creates more opportunities in the changing landscape of journalism
Journalism ain’t what it used to be. Nor, in this shifting state of professional blogging, inexpensive HD video production and high-distribution podcasting, should it be. A networked, collaborative approach to making media (and making a living from it) not only brings in multiple perspectives on issues, but allows for a story to be followed along its lifespan, regardless of whether it will sell papers or reel in advertisers. Idealistic? Nothing new would happen without that kind of vision.
Montreal‘s second Citizen Media Rendez-vous seeks to pragmatically explore these issues by creating an open environment ripe for discussion on access to and appropriation of citizen media, as well as citizen use of new media for the defence of human rights.
“People who are coming to the event are either making media themselves or have set up systems and software to create networks to help people create media,” says David Widgington, co-ordinator of this year’s day-long Rendez-vous. “Citizen media is based in non-fiction and trying to inform people about something, rather than marketing ideas.”
Out of so many voices in the social media world, a broader grouping has emerged: “media practitioners” include journalists as well as “anyone who’s using new media, social media and web-based technologies to inform others about things they know about,” says Widgington, whose educational background is in geography, with years of experience in publishing, filmmaking and documentaries. His own involvement in media reform
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