We the Media (Hardcover)

Description:

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 and the newsmakers they cover. In We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, nationally known business and technology columnist Dan Gillmor tells the story of this emerging phenomenon, and sheds light on this deep shift in how we make and consume the news.

We the Media is essential reading for all participants in the news cycle:

• Consumers learn how they can become producers of the news. Gillmor lays out the tools of the grassroots journalist's trade, including personal Web journals (called weblogs or blogs), Internet chat groups, email, and cell phones. He also illustrates how, in this age of media consolidation and diminished reporting, to roll your own news, drawing from the array of sources available online and even over the phone.
  
• Newsmakers politicians, business executives, celebrities get a wake-up call. The control that newsmakers enjoyed in the top-down world of Big Media is seriously undermined in the Internet Age. Gillmor shows newsmakers how to successfully play by the new rules and shift from control to engagement.
  
• Journalists discover that the new grassroots journalism presents opportunity as well as challenge to their profession. One of the first mainstream journalists to have a blog, Gillmor says, "My readers know more than I do, and that's a good thing." In We the Media, he makes the case to his colleagues that, in the face of a plethora of Internet-fueled news vehicles, they must change or become irrelevant.

At its core, We the Media is a book about people. People like Glenn Reynolds, a law professor whose blog postings on the intersection of technology and liberty garnered him enough readers and influence that he became a source for professional journalists. Or Ben Chandler, whose upset Congressional victory was fueled by contributions that came in response to ads on a handful of political blogs. Or Iraqi blogger Zayed, whose Healing Irag blog (healingiraq.blogspot.com) scooped Big Media. Or acridrabbit, who inspired an online community to become investigative reporters and discover that the dying Kaycee Nichols sad tale was a hoax. Give the people tools to make the news, We the Media asserts, and they will.

Journalism in the 21st century will be fundamentally different from the Big Media that prevails today. We the Media casts light on the future of journalism, and invites us all to be part of it.

 

Table of Contents:

Introduction  

1. From Tom Paine to Blogs and Beyond  

2. The Read-Write Web  

3. The Gates Come Down  

4. Newsmakers Turn the Tables  

5. The Consent of the Governed  

6. Professional Journalists Join the Conversation  

7. The Former Audience Joins the Party  

8. Next Steps  

9. Trolls, Spin, and the Boundaries of Trust  

10. Here Come the Judges (and Lawyers)  

11. The Empires Strike Back  

12. Making Our Own News  

Epilogue and Acknowledgments  

Web Site Directory  

Glossary  

Notes  

Index  

描述：

基層記者正在解構大型媒體對新聞的壟斷，將其從講授轉變為對話。這些讀者轉變為記者的人不滿足於接受報導的新聞，他們通過互聯網實時向全球觀眾發布新聞。他們的工作對專業記者和他們所報導的新聞人物的影響才剛剛開始被感受到。在《我們媒體：基層記者為人民而寫的新聞》中，全國知名商業和科技專欄作家丹·吉爾莫爾講述了這一新興現象的故事，並闡明了我們如何製作和消費新聞的深刻轉變。《我們媒體》對新聞循環中的所有參與者來說都是必讀之物：

• 消費者了解他們如何成為新聞的製作者。吉爾莫爾介紹了基層記者的工具，包括個人網誌（稱為網絡日誌或博客）、互聯網聊天群組、電子郵件和手機。他還說明了在媒體壟斷和報導減少的時代，如何從在線和甚至通過電話提供的各種來源中獲取自己的新聞。
  
  


• 新聞人物，包括政治家、商業高管和名人，受到了警醒。在大型媒體的自上而下的世界中，新聞人物所享有的控制力在互聯網時代受到了嚴重削弱。吉爾莫爾向新聞人物展示了如何成功地遵循新規則，從控制轉變為參與。
  
  


• 記者們發現新的基層記者新聞不僅帶來挑戰，也帶來機遇。作為最早擁有博客的主流記者之一，吉爾莫爾說：“我的讀者比我更了解，這是一件好事。”在《我們媒體》中，他向同事們提出論點，面對眾多由互聯網推動的新聞媒體，他們必須改變或變得無關緊要。

在其核心，《我們媒體》是一本關於人的書。像格倫·雷諾茲這樣的人，他是一位法學教授，他在技術和自由交叉點的博客文章獲得了足夠的讀者和影響力，以至於他成為專業記者的消息來源。或者本·錢德勒，他的意外國會勝利是由對少數政治博客上的廣告的回應所推動的。或者伊拉克博主扎伊德，他的《治癒伊拉克》博客（healingiraq.blogspot.com）超越了大型媒體。或者是acridrabbit，他激發了一個在線社區成為調查記者，發現垂死的凱西·尼科爾斯的悲慘故事是一個騙局。《我們媒體》主張給人們提供製作新聞的工具，他們就會去做。

21世紀的新聞將與今天盛行的大型媒體有根本的不同。《我們媒體》為新聞的未來投下了光明的一線，並邀請我們所有人參與其中。

 

目錄：

引言  

1. 從湯姆·潘恩到博客及更遠  

2. 閱讀-寫作網絡  

3. 大門打開  

4. 新聞人物扭轉局勢  

5. 被統治者的同意  

6. 專業記者加入對話  

7. 前觀眾加入派對  

8. 下一步  

9. 網絡暴民、宣傳和信任的界限  

10. 法官（和律師）來了  

11. 帝國反擊  

12. 制作我們自己的新聞  
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