Nosotros, el medio: cómo las audiencias están modelando el futuro de la noticias y la información

70 p.: il.Libro ElectrónicoHay tres maneras de ver cómo es informada una sociedad. La primera es que las personas son crédulas y leerán, escucharán o verán casi todo. La segunda es que la mayoría de las personas requieren un intermediario informado para decirles qué es bueno, importante o significativo. La tercera es que las personas son muy inteligentes. Dados los medios, pueden organizar las cosas para sí mismas y encontrar su propia versión de la verdad. Los medios han llegado. La verdad está afuera. A lo largo de la historia, el acceso a las noticias y la información ha sido un privilegio concedido a poderosas instituciones con la autoridad o la riqueza para dominar la distribución. En los dos siglos anteriores, una prensa independiente ha servido como defensor de la sociedad y su derecho a saber, un papel esencial durante una era de tolerancia democrática. En algún nivel, Nosotros, el medio revelará algo sobre la sociedad y la forma en que las personas aprenden de los otrosEstamos en el comienzo de la Edad Dorada del periodismo –pero no es periodismo como lo hemos conocido hasta ahora–. Los futurólogos de medios han pronosticado que para el año 2021 "los ciudadanos producirán colaborativamente el 50 por ciento de las noticias". Sin embargo, los medios tradicionales tienen todavía que adoptar o experimentar significativamente con estas nuevas formas de noticias. Históricamente, a los periodistas les ha sido encomendado informar a la democracia. Pero su futuro dependerá no solo de qué tan bien lo hagan sino también de cómo estimulen y hagan posible el diálogo con los ciudadanos. Ese es el desafío. Este informe plantea importantes consideraciones cuando se explora un esfuerzo colaborativo entre la audiencia y un medio tradicional.Contexto cultural: detrás de la explosión. --Cómo está tomando forma el periodismo participativo. -- Las reglas de la participación. --Implicaciones para los medios y el periodismo. -- Beneficios potenciales de ‘Nosotros, el Medio’. --Cómo podrían responder los medios

Do you have a source for that?: Understanding the challenges of collaborative evidence-based journalism

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Citizen participation in news

The process of producing news has changed significantly due to the advent of the Web, which has enabled the increasing involvement of citizens in news production. This trend has been given many names, including participatory journalism, produsage, and crowd-sourced journalism, but these terms are ambiguous and have been applied inconsistently, making comparison of news systems difficult. In particular, it is problematic to distinguish the levels of citizen involvement, and therefore the extent to which news production has genuinely been opened up. In this paper we perform an analysis of 32 online news systems, comparing them in terms of how much power they give to citizens at each stage of the news production process. Our analysis reveals a diverse landscape of news systems and shows that they defy simplistic categorisation, but it also provides the means to compare different approaches in a systematic and meaningful way. We combine this with four case studies of individual stories to explore the ways that news stories can move and evolve across this landscape. Our conclusions are that online news systems are complex and interdependent, and that most do not involve citizens to the extent that the terms used to describe them imply

Stretch goals and the distribution of organizational performance

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Nosotros, el medio. Cómo las audiencias están modelando el futuro de la noticia y la información

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