Len, thanks for the intro. Enjoy your Spanish summer!
Andrea, considered rhetorically, your question about teaching civic journalism actually revisits Putnam’s old theory of television causing a decline in social capital. Participatory journalism seems like an antidote to decreasing civic engagement if we can operationalize “participatory journalism” in a widely acceptable manner. One type […]
I just returned from an amazing few days at the American Press Institute participating in its Journalism Educators Seminar. One of the key threads throughout the week focused on public journalism initiatives and hyper-local news projects. Jan Schaffer, J-Lab Executive Director with the Institute for Interactive Journalism, offered a particularly fascinating presentation on […]
Nikhil Moro
Hi, I want you to meet Nikhil Moro, a professor and colleague at Kennesaw State University. He along with Andrea Frantz, a professor at Wilkes University, will be a guest blogger here for the next few weeks as I take a break.
Andrea Frantz
I’ll still be blogging, but probably not as intensely […]
The professors were terrified about what could go wrong with a hyperlocal project discussed at Northwestern, but Jeff Jarvis writes in part:
The students shrugged at all the whipped-up fears and quickly said that the community edits itself and corrects errors. And because this medium — at last — lets the people have proprietorship over content, […]
Maybe newsrooms need their own wake-up calls. They should take notice of how Cingular will use cellphones to get youth politically involved in the election. This from a press release:
Calling all young voters! Cingular Wireless is giving America’s youth a voice in the political process during the 2004 Presidential Election. Through morning “wake-up calls” from […]
Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.