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Bloggers Reporting & Representing Meatspace Events
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al-@halavais.net
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Apr 03, 2004 13:15 PST
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Procrastination is the enemy of cooperation! Last minute suggested
session, if I'm not too late. No presentation, just a birds-of-a-feather
open space. We'll use the wiki to raise a set of discussion points.
I've added to the wiki (CollectiveEventBlogging
<http://molodiez.org/wiki/moin.cgi/CollectiveEventBlogging?action=fullsearch&value=CollectiveEventBlogging&literal=1&case=1&context=40>)
a proposed session for (a) those who will be blogging the sessions at
the conference, and (b) those who are interested in discussion how
blogging feeds into re-interpreting, distributing, and understanding events.
There has been a lot of talk about blogging as amateur journalism. At
the same time, it seems as though the future of news via blogs has less
to do with bloggers parroting the practices and processes of
professional journalism, and more to do with the aggregation of a
variety of perspectives, each with a microview of the event. This is
already happening with text, and will be accelerated when images and
audio of events (recorded with camphones, etc.) are assembled into a
fragmentary representation of the original. What does this mean for
participatory journalism, for making meaning, for social action? Is it
inevitable that such work will need to be restructured into a more
cohesive narrative by others (and likely plugged into grand narratives
and news frames)?
Obviously, this is a recursive session, since I expect that those who
are particularly interested will also be blogging the conference. I
envision meeting early on to talk about the larger issues as well as the
more practical questions of how to capture the conference meetings in
blogspace.
Please add your blog below (to the wiki) if you will be blogging about
the event, and if you have a feed, it will be added to an aggregator.
Thanks!
See Also: CollectiveWitnessing, InterAuthorship
Blogs tracking Networks/Art/Collaboration:
* http://alex.halavais.net/news/
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