CNN vs. the Internet? Who Do You Trust?

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Mar 06, 2010, 05:22 PM

Credibility?  It seems singularly lacking these days in traditional media.  I don't have an answer but I'm positive that "the Internet" is not the cause of these bad news days.  Quite the contrary, I turn to my own reliable Internet sources when credibility and credulity are both strained in traditional sources.   What about you? 

Call for Research Proposals: Civic Discourse and the Public Sphere in the Age of the Internet

The background to this project is a concern about preserving the potential of the Internet and new media technologies to foster open communication practices vital to sustaining a healthy public sphere essential for democracy. Our concerns about internet civility are not just limited to the political sphere. Indeed, the most egregious attacks on internet civility have been outside the political arena in on web forums such as JuicyCampus and social networking sites such as Facebook.

Social Media and Blogging Guidelines

Submitted by NancyKimberly on Feb 03, 2010, 02:37 PM

Social media and blogs are important elements of journalism. They narrow the distance between journalists and the public. They encourage lively, immediate and spirited discussion. They can be vital news-gathering and news-delivery tools. As a journalist you should uphold the same professional and ethical standards of fairness, accuracy, truthfulness, transparency and independence when using social media as you do on air and on all digital news platforms. 

Student Journalism 2.0 Methodology

Submitted by akozak on Oct 01, 2009, 06:55 PM

Since it's just a couple weeks before we start gathering data, I'd like to give a quick introduction to the methodology ccLearn (the education program at Creative Commons) is using for our Student Journalism 2.0 research project.

Is the End of Newspapers the End of Journalism?

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Mar 14, 2009, 12:01 PM
This is a link to a very thought-provoking piece by Clay Shirky. Key line: "Society doesn't need newspapers. Society needs journalism." What is interesting about Shirky is how he can separate nostalgia from functionalism and agency. By that I mean, many things that we decry as "bad" in the face of "new technology" (and this is true whether we live in 1790 or 2009) are really our resistance to change. Even if one does not agree with a statement like Shirky's underscoring a distinction between newspapers and journalism, it is crucial to be able to separate out the parts of what something like "newspapers" means in a functional way, that speaks to the needs of a society, not to the habits of a society. http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthink...

Journalism and Video Games

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Nov 18, 2008, 09:20 AM
Here is a message from our friend Ian Bogost about a new project he is engaged in on Journalism and Videogames.  Tune in at
http://jag.lcc.gatech.edu/blog/

Journalism of the Absurd

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jun 16, 2007, 08:07 AM
Technology and culture theorist's Jonathan Sterne's Super Bon blog has a hilarious column on journalists trying to blame FOOD FIGHTS on the internet and videogames. Oh, yeah. We believe that, don't we? Some comments of my own, plus a reblog of Jonathan's blogspot.