Re: Final paper on public journalism
Mike,
I like your paper very much.
I don’t think you should make a choice between social networking and a design career. One of the things that is dooming many of the advanced social networking/Web 2.0 applications for journalists is that they are so ugly and clunky (think Ning, Drupal, etc.). We haven’t yet designed an interface that works as beautifully as a well designed newspaper page. If you can combine your talents with design and your passion for networking you’d be in such a sweet spot.
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You write: “Civic journalism will refer to the intertwined work of both the professional and the citizen who have mixed their work to create something else.”
Everyone I know is having trouble naming whatever it is that comes next. Civic journalism was used interchangeably with public journalism for so long that I’m not sure it has a chance. Public journalism has so much baggage that Cole refused to let us use that term anywhere in our literature about the graduate program, despite the fact that it was our real focus.
See this blog post: