Dan Gillmor, Center for Citizen Media
As technology collides with journalism, democratizing the tools of media creation and distribution, news is evolving from a lecture into a conversation.
Dan Gillmor is author of “We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People” (O’Reilly Media, 2004), a book that explains the rise of citizens’…
Robert Bateman
Soldiers have been recording their thoughts and fears in personal journals for hundreds of years. Weblogs add a new twist, however, because not everyone who reads them is necessarily a “good guy.” Finding the line, that balance between the impetus of the volunteer soldier from an open society and the need to prevent the enemy from learning about our ta…
Clifford Christians, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
What ethical issues are central now as the new technologies dominate the media professions and global information systems take shape? There are new moral problems such as digital manipulation. Privacy, surveillance, gender discrimination, distributive justice and cultural diversity are more complicate…
