Getting Beyond Oppositional Frames of Old & New Media?
How do "we" think about new/digital media? In the room today, several posited ideas of ways to get beyond a binary approach.
"The role of media is to inform the public and encourage them to engage and participate. The role of new media is to give them the means to do it," noted Stephen Salyer, president of the Salzburg Global Seminar and the former long-time president of Public Radio International (PRI).
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"What Would Jarvis Do?"
This afternoon -- a Skype talk with Jeff Jarvis (new media savant and author of "What Would Google Do?")
Jarvis made some compelling arguments about the power of new media, and the reconfiguration of journalism on every level -- starting with the "atomic element of journalism":
"It's no longer the long article -- it's the post."
Jarvis called for an explosion of entrepreneurship online, supported through grants, investment, prizes, and "incubations" that help to grow new media businesses.
You can read the basics of his argument here:
http://newsinnovation.com/models/
and see the slide presentation we saw in Salzburg here:
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SPEAKERS SAY: Jarvis
Jeff JARVIS, associate professor & director, Interactive Journalism Program, Graduate School of Journalism, City University of New York; founder of Buzzmachine:
"One of the things I argue to my students is that if they are going to work collaboratively with their audiences, they need to become generous with the news... How to help their communities cover themselves?"
"We need to reduce the cost of failure. The notion of 'Beta' requires it – but too many are allergic to it. We as citizens need to give [legacy players & new media platforms] the license to fail."
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QUICK HITS: Hoffman, Newton
David HOFFMAN, president and co-founder, Internews Network: "I think most of the discussion [in the post-morning break session] avoided the fundamental structural problem that multi-lateral organizations, like the World Bank, fund governments which are reluctant to improve their media. That was the question that Stephen King (of Omidyar) raised which was never fundamentally answered."
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SPEAKERS SAY: Deane, Levy, Førde, Quon, Williams
FRAMING QUESTION: James DEANE, director of Policy, BBC World Trust: "This is where I think the governance consensus is - there is agreement that there is a problem to be solved in understanding how media development assistance fits into the governance agenda.... Information communication is understood in development to be absolutely critical – but what about the media?"
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