E-flections

In A Most Useful Definition of Citizen Journalism, Jay Rosen of NYU’s Journalism programme defines citizen media as
‘When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press tools they have in their possession to inform one another, that’s citizen journalism.’
That got me thinking as always as to how this insight about the media might [...]

Mashing up google maps and news events is a potentially killer app for delivering a better understanding of events on both a local and global scale. Ushahid is a very interesting site that was set up during the post election violence in Kenya to act as an incident reporting and tracking monitor for acts of [...]