‘We Media’ and Citizen Journalism

What are the news headlines today?

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Who decides?

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/• http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/• http://uk.yahoo.com/• http://uk.reuters.com/news/world

Some alternative views…

• Insurgency Watch: http://www.insurgencywatch.com/about/

• Healing Iraq: http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/• Indymedia: http://www.indymedia.org/en/• McSpotlight:

http://www.mcspotlight.org/help.html• Ohmynews: http://english.ohmynews.com/

Clay Shirky

‘How social media can make history’http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.htmlMorozov: the opposing view http://blog.ted.com/2009/09/22/how_the_interne/