Is there a new form of media being born?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Ronda Hauben <ronda () panix com>
Date: July 4, 2005 6:48:26 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Cc: Ronda Hauben <ronda () panix com>
Subject: Is there a new form of media being born?



Hi Dave

In celebration of July 4, it seems appropriate to consider whether
the Internet will help a new form of participatory netizen media to
emerge. This was the subject that many discussed at the recent
forum held by OhmyNews in Seoul recently. My article reviewing the
forum is in Telepolis. The url is:

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20437/1.html

Below is an excerpt. Ronda



          What will be the future?
     Netizen Media or Another Form of
    Corporate Dominated Mainstream Media?
                       by Ronda Hauben


There is a small staff of reporters writing articles for the Korean  
edition of the newspaper, in addition to the submissions by citizen  
reporters. The newly founded international edition, however, which is  
published in English, is wholly dependent on submissions from citizen  
reporters. Citizen reporters from around the world were brought to  
Seoul for 3 days to meet each other and to meet their Korean  
counterparts....
The issue raised during the forum, not formally, but among the  
citizen journalists there, and afterwards in their comments and  
articles after the forum, is the issue of whether the new Internet  
media will end up being a new form of corporate dominated mainstream  
media or will it be able to be the media of netizens seeking a better  
world.




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