We media
a reaction against
corporate control
fanzine
a rejection of the establishment
meida product by the grassroots
who produced their own inferior
in production values but with their content
sacrificed production values for message
producer
- we the media
- contributors
- peer to peer
- producers
- local
- community
- individual
- small is beautiful
TV Viewing
1st week in Feb 2000
- Eastenders 19.73 million
- Coronation Street 17.8 million
1st week in February 2010
- Eastenders 10.7 million
- Coronation Street 11.4 million
consumer
- they the media
- detached
- global
- business
- big
- corporate
News has changed most in content, style, form
to educate, inform and entertain
New Scientist article: twitter and new media better than conventional media for communicating incrisis emergency situations
Virginia Tech Massacre
wikipedia page listing dead 90 mins after event 20 minutes later facebook page; i'm ok at VT ..' if you know a student is confirmed dead, complete this list here..' people making an effort to confirm and corroborate. 'Instead of rumour mongering, we see socially produced accuracy ' (Leysia Palen, Univ of Colorado
Broadcast = top-down news
Intercast = bottom-up news
what holds it up...... vandalism, law, regulation, copyright, libel
Amazon is a device by producers to entice consumers... to make consuming easier
ebay is a device that enables consumers to become producers
podcasts
get the product when you want it
on your terms
from your platform
empowerment of the consumer
no longer a slave to schedules
web2.0 a platform on which networks vcan be built... by networkers
Iranian elections 2009
The cult of the amateur - Andrew Keen
wikipedia = non expert trust
The evidence of we media
wikipedia
twitter
facebook
ebay
bebo
forums and message boards
napster
edonkey
fasttrack
The Long tail - Chris Anderson
Domestically available production resources
computers
laptops
G2 ++mobile phone
editing software
portable digital recording equipment