Now It’s Civic and Citizen Journalism Interest Group
The Civic Journalism Interest Group, an approximately 100 member wing within the greater Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), will now take a on a new name, the Civic and Citizen Journalism Interest Group. We spoke earlier here and here of how some members feel about it. But now, after a vote, it is a done deal.
In the interest of full disclosure I was the one who made the motion to change the name at the AEJMC convention in San Antonio. So now the question is, is it time to change the name here to the Public and Participatory Journalism Network?
In someways it does not matter because at least here the site has defined itself as an international clearinghouse of information about public, civic, open source, participatory, and citizen media–and we might add we media.
Now the issue is how do we figuratively, and maybe literally, link all those together– in the end that is what both the PJNet.org and the Civic and Citizen Journalism Interest Group are all about.
