Citizen Media: Media Literacy And The State Of Citizen Journalism - Dan Gillmor Reports :: Robin Good

Citizen Media: where are we?

Dan Gillmor does a wonderful job of distilling and identifying the state of citizen media which keeps growing and broadening its interest at a relentless pace.

In this article Dan published just a few days ago, he not only outlines with insight the many developments, successes and failures occurred in the citizen media universe, but he also underlines and compares such developments with the parallel free-fall experienced by traditional media. Even independents who have repeatedly failed to listen and look at the changing rules of the vast media landscape are now paying an increasingly high price to their own lack of analysis.

But the good news is that the grassroots inspired citizen media projects are rife with experimentation and new ideas, and nonetheless only few succeed, the opportunities opened to the many that do have those ideas is indeed huge.

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