shouting loudly

[Update: read Jay Rosen's account and analysis of how this all turned out.  I agree entirely.] There’s a post I meant to write after the Shirley Sherrod incident this summer.  Instead it became a lecture that I give to my students in my Media, Government, and Politics seminar at Rutgers.  Given ABC’s announcement last night [...]

Markos Moulitsas of DailyKos announced Monday that he is suing Research 2000 for fraudulant activity, based on a statistical analysis conducted by Mark Grebner, Michael Weissman, and Jonathan Weissman.  I won’t comment on the details of their study here — Nate Silver has done a much better job of that already — but instead want [...]

I was excited when Carol Pardun, President of the Association for Education and Journalism and Mass Communication, told me that the group would be issuing a statement supporting network neutrality. I was ecstatic when she asked for my input on the statement. Now, the statement is out, and I’m listed as a contact. Later today, [...]

It is with a joyous heart that I welcome our latest co-conspirator contributor, Paul Falzone. Like the rest of us, he has a big “Penn” stamp on his arse, having earned his PhD from Annenberg in 2008. He started in 2003 (same year as Jason and me), and it quickly became apparent that he was [...]

1:20 Begins the Q&A session. Forgive me for getting names wrong or not knowing them; will try to clean this up later. Ethan Z. gives David Weinberger the “ceremonial first question.” DW: Hospitality has been a big deal since the Old Testament. Has there been less focus on hospitality because of the fake intimacy with [...]

1:11: Replacing objectivity with intersubjectivity. The internet features a new proliferation of voices. So now, our attention is the scarce resource. How do I deal with the overload of information? We look to institutions to solve this problem–to steer attention. We can judge these institutions based on their hospitality–the dialectical negotiation between objectivity and hospitality. [...]

12:50: Is Global Voices (GV) journalism? Rebecca McKinnon: No. No fact checking, no objectivity, most participants don’t see themselves a journalists and even refuse the label. This question is a red herring–it’s like asking Lok whether he’s Chinese, Dutch, etc. What’s more interesting is what it says about what journalism is for, why it’s important, [...]

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 [...]

My dear friend and fellow ShoutingLoudly blogger Lokman Tsui is about to begin his talk at the Berkman Center, “Beyond Objectivity: Global Voices and the Future of Journalism.” Stay tuned.

Most of you perhaps don’t know that I am writing my dissertation about Global Voices. But this is an incredible group of people who make sure that parts of the world that otherwise gets ignored in the mainstream media get their voices heard. They are currently looking for donations that will help them sustain the [...]