Feb
07

Briggs 3

Filed Under (COMM 361, Professor Klein) by on 07-02-2011 and tagged

Briggs, chapter 3: crowd-powered collaboration, was very confusing.

Nonetheless, here are some key terms:

  1. Crowd sourcing– Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call. Check out this video explaining Crowdsourcing
  2. Open-source reporting-Blogs like this, and twitter accounts, twitter.com/bibbyharty, are very helpful in bringing the readers closer to journalists.
  3. Pro-am journalism– No news organization can be everywhere at the same time, which is why some news organizations, such as TBD.com, are letting their readers play reporter.
  4. Link journalism


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