Arsip: Research
OhMyNews Forum Recap
MediaChannel.org has put together the package below to highlight some of the issues discussed during the OhMyNews 2007 International Reporters’ forum. You might want to check them out. OhourNews Can ordinary citizens actually function as journalists? Or, as many in the mainstream media would have it, is journalism some sort of priesthood of professionals who venture, Moses-like, [...]— ikram • July 7th, 2007
Download MacKinnon’s WJEC Paper
Rebecca MacKinnon is in Singapore this week, presenting an academic paper in World Journalism Education Conference. Her paper (titled “Blogs and China Correspondence: How Foreign Correspondents Covering China Use Blogs,”) summarized the results of a survey she conducted last Fall of foreign correspondents who cover China. Please click here to download the paper in PDF [...]— ikram • June 27th, 2007
Watch Out for MySpace
Newspapers need to watch out for online competition from a less obvious source like social networks, in addition to Google and Yahoo. According to a global study of youth media behavior commissioned by the World Association of Newspapers, “the importance of the social network as a disseminator of news and information is on the rise.” Many [...]— ikram • June 24th, 2007
Old Media Is In Trouble - Really?
I once wondered whether the newspaper are being killed or no. On August 24th 2006, a London-based weekly news magazine The Economics wrote a provocative-titled article “Who Killed The Newspaper?” but if we look at a report by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), the newspaper sales are increasing by 12.93%. So are they being [...]— ikram • June 21st, 2007
Coming Up: NMK Forum 2007
The New Media Knowledge annual forum 2007 is being held on August 13th, 2007. This forum will discuss the business and digital issues of the day, the year, and the age. It is said that the forum will act as a melting pot of the essential strategies for commercial success in a digital age. Senior executives [...]— ikram • June 9th, 2007
Questioning online journalism
Leaders of online news operations across the globe are at Poynter this week, trying to make sense of journalism online. They were asked to write down their questions and concerns and in ten minutes, there were 129 of questions. Here are some of the questions “that generated the most interest in the room” that I found [...]— ikram • June 6th, 2007
Grandpa Is Surfing the Internet, Too
Who said that old people are hopeless with technology and that most wouldn’t know one end of a computer from the other? A recent study conducted by the National Seniors Productive Ageing Centre, Australia, indicates that not only are many elderly Australians Internet savvy, but their uptake of other forms of assistive technology is well and [...]— ikram • June 1st, 2007
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