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We the media: technology empowers a new grassroots journalism

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Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the news, transforming it from a lecture to a conversation. Not content to accept the news as reported, these readers-turned-reporters are publishing in real time to a worldwide audience via the Internet. The impact of their work is just beginning to be felt by professional journalists, the newsmakers they cover and especially the former audience, which is now part of the process. The tools are still in the early stages, however, creating substantial needs - and opportunities - for technologist and the new grassroots journalists.

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    HYPERTEXT '04: Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
    August 2004
    284 pages
    ISBN:1581138482
    DOI:10.1145/1012807
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    Published: 09 August 2004

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    1. CSCW
    2. Web log
    3. blog
    4. computer-assisted journalism
    5. news reporting

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    HT04: 15th Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
    August 9 - 13, 2004
    CA, Santa Cruz, USA

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