Dan Gillmor, director and founder of the Center for Citizen Media and the author of “We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People,” shared some interesting perspective on trends he is seeing.
- Recognition of Citizen Media – growing references on the web and research studies underway
- Traditional Media Get It Now – more and more are applying content co-creation techniques via blogs, new media, etc.
- Backlash – fears raised by the late adopters (e.g. Encyclopedia Britannica)
- Tools and Ideas – an explosion of new applications, devices for people to use to create and manage content
- Business Issues – challenge to find the right model
- Experimentation Is Cheap – cost of failure gets lower
- Experiments – mobile platforms and apps and objective-level content
- Ethics, Reliability, Civility – opportunity for further improvement
- Assisting Trust – new ways to identify and manage “quality” contributions
- Media Literacy – principles to live by as consumers and producers of content
