shouting loudly

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, thanks [...]

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 a [...]

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 strangers from around [...]

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.
Example: Rotten Tomatoes. It’s [...]

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, and so [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

Last night, a friend of mine claimed that blogs have no redeeming value. (He’d had a few beers, so the claim was a bit less, um, polite and articulate; he didn’t know I’m a blogger, so it may have been a good thing I was sober.)
While I’ll grant that many blogs do not have much [...]

What is the role of citizen journalism in crisis situations? Some quick thoughts and anecdotal evidence suggests that the role citizens can play in crisis situations is becoming significant. Consider the example of citizens taking snapshots with their cameraphones during the London subway attack. Or think about how the Sichuan earthquake first ‘broke’ on Twitter, [...]