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Oblique Strategies for Ambient Journalism
Alex Burns (alex@alexburns.net)
Published in M/C Journal, 13(2), May 2010.
Alfred Hermida recently posited 'ambient journalism' as a new framework for para- and professional
journalists, who use social networks like Twitter for story sources, and as a news delivery platform.
Beginning with this framework, this article explores the following questions: How does Hermida
define 'ambient journalism' and what is its significance? Are there alternative definitions? What
lessons do current platforms provide for the design of future, real-time platforms that 'ambient
journalists' might use? What lessons does the work of Brian Eno provide-the musician and
producer who coined the term 'ambient music' over three decades ago?
My aim here is to formulate an alternative definition of ambient journalism that emphasises craft,
skills acquisition, and the mental models of professional journalists, which are the foundations more
generally for journalism practices. Rather than Hermida's participatory media context I emphasise
'institutional adaptiveness': how journalists and newsrooms in media institutions rely on craft and
skills, and how emerging platforms can augment these foundations, rather than replace them.
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On this day of great celebrations worldwide, we also invite to celebrate the impressive wealth of knowledge, information and beauty that today, like every year on this day, becomes freely available to humankind. Every year on New Year's Day, in fact, due to the expiration of copyright protection terms on works produced by authors who died several decades earlier, thousands of works enter the public domain - that is, their content is no longer owned or controlled by anyone, but it rather becomes a common treasure, available for anyone to freely use for any purpose.
Such works can also become a building block for new creations: people can transform a poem into song lyrics, or make a movie based on a public domain novel (check your local movie theaters to see how often that happens!). Literary works can be published on personal website and/or printed for friends or school distribution. Of course, you can also decide, for instance, to professionally print a beautiful hardcover leather-bound edition of a public domain book and sell it for a profit, while the book content will remain available for anyone to use freely. And the same goes for images, art works and other kinds of creative works entering the public domain under the same term expiration rule.
This Public Domain Day (each year's January 1st) website is an initiative of COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain, with the special support of the Open Knowledge Foundation. Our aim is to raise worldwide awareness about the role of the public domain in our societies and to provide resources and information. Please feel free to browse our website and related links and pages - to find greater inspiration and enjoy the creative and entrepreneurial freedom granted to everybody by the public domain.
Now that the waters have calmed and the Google+ communities hype has reduced, we can analyze the benefits of how as users we can gain value from it.
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"An introduction to a broadly interdisciplinary study of cooperation and collective action." Random thoughts: Egypt, - after the crisis is over, can the collective action progress to create a more optimum government and society?
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