A blog for CS400 - Citizen Media and the Public Sphere

Welcome! This is the instructor blog for CS400H - Citizen Media and the Public Sphere. It will act as a clearing house for information, a central location for our blogroll, and a place where I post links and other networked communication points of access that we will be exploring in class. Please consider bookmarking for ease of access.

Bad hypertext. Bad. (A Peer Review Exercise)

Citizen media is awesome. It brings people closer together and it erases the separation between us as it makes the distances between us not matter anymore. Citizen media is made by citizens. This means that people who are usually audiences get to have their voices hear and we don’t have to only hear what mainstream news media wants us to hear. Citizen media is sometimes biased but that’s okay because mainstream media is biased too, but citizen media acknowledges that it is biased which is better than mainstream media. Citizen media is always on the internet. The internet let’s us share information without any barriers. Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and blogs are all the same when it comes to allowing citizens to share the messages they produce. Here is a link to a story about citizen media: http://summit2010.globalvoicesonline.org/2010/03/gv-summits-are-awesome/ Also, citizen media helps mainstream journalists a lot. Now, instead of going out to report on a news story they can just sit at home and wait for us to send in pictures of a car accident or something. All in all, citizen media makes our lives better because it helps us hear the news from multiple points of view and leads to a more democratic world.