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Part 5: Group 3 prototype, the nomadic community journalist

GROUP 3 PROTOTYPE

The concept

Our group identified two major problems: the disappearance of local journalism institutions and a public disconnected from journalists. So we wondered, "how might nomadic journalists work and how would community life continue to be successful?" This idea builds on Group 2 (inadvertently), mixes Spot.Us, Innocentive.com, OhMyNews.com, uWeb/iTunes/iNews and other journalism movements: public journalism, ...

Part 4: Group 2 prototype, an incentive for democracy

03.11.2009 · Posted in Citizen journalism, News, think tank, Web

GROUP 2 PROTOTYPE

The concept

This group wanted to develop a point system on a news website. For every activity users do, they receive points. People receive more or less points depending on their level of engagement. For example, commenting on a story nets maybe 2 points, but writing your own story is worth 10. The site basically ...

Part 3: Group 1 prototypes, reviving public spaces

GROUP 1 PROTOTYPES

The concept

They wanted to create a news experience around a physical public space, likened to town halls of Benjamin Franklin's day. So they chose to partner with places like Starbucks, Wal-Mart and other congregation areas within communities. In doing this, you create a cohesive community that centers around news, interest-based conversations and tasty merchandise. As ...

Part 2: Discoveries and highlights, where journalists and IDEO intersect

03.11.2009 · Posted in think tank

DISCOVERIES AND HIGHLIGHTS

How might we?

The rest of the day was spent identifying a series of problems in journalism. I unfortunately can only speak for my group but I think these were important points:
  • News is horribly fragmented/decentralized
  • Journalists produce for journalists because there is no reliable system of feedback from readers
  • If readers need to learn "media literacy" ...

Part 1: The Process, how IDEO leads us to new worlds

03.11.2009 · Posted in think tank

THE PROCESS

IDEO has a particular approach they use to invent or redesign products. They are a design firm with clients ranging from Bank of America to bicycle stores to cleaning companies. Here is part 1 of a video about IDEO's process. You can find the rest on YouTube: