shouting loudly

12:38: How did Lok get to studying Global Voices?

Started by being interested in Chinese internet, as well as Dutch dislike of difference.

Chatted w/ Andrew Lih (of Wikipedia Revolution fame), who urged him to find something amazing that’s not well understood. Global Voices also allowed him to work on something that straddles multiple cultures–like Lok himself.

12:44: How does the world come to know itself?

The public is where strangers come together to discuss the news. How does the internet change this?

It urges us to rethink the relationship between and constraints around journalism and democracy.

Let’s imagine a better journalism together. How can we design better institutions that take advantage of the new media environment?

12:47: Point of comparison: Ethnographies of newsroom culture in 1970’s. Assumed that newsroom culture shaped production of news.

Ex: Newsroom production needs breed reliance on government sources as authoritative, reliable.

Global Voices (GV) newsroom happens online. What sort of affordances and constraints does this lead to, and how does this affect journalism?

Need a new conceptual toolkit to explain this.