Welcome to the future Top 10 headaches in the citizen-controlled, post-scarcity, distributed,...

Welcome to the futureTop 10 headaches in the

citizen-controlled, post-scarcity, distributed, exploding, remixed

media world

Citizens’ Media

Jeff Jarvis - BuzzMachine.com

1. When anyone can commit an act of journalism

• Using citizens as reporters: sharing content, promotion, training, revenue

• Standing with bloggers as journalists • Shield laws• Access to officials, events• Life is on the record: ‘Son, don’t blog

this’

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2. Libel? What libel?

• Susan Crawford argues that libel is outmoded when all have a means of response

• When we use citizens to report, what is our role and responsibility?

• The dual-edged power of the link.

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3. Publish first. Correct later.

• In forums, we clean up after the fact• Ditto bloggers -- but staff bloggers?• The added difficulty of reviewing,

editing, correcting audio and video• The new notion that news isn’t done

when we print it; that’s when the news process begins

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4. The distributed world.

• The Katrina effect: when what makes big media big is gone. What are we then?

• The age of the centralized marketplace is over: what comes after Craig.

• Neither content nor distribution is king. Conversation is the kingdom. Trust is king.

• So what is our relationship? . . .

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5. RSS is a two-way street.

• We share content with others in a distributed world: our stuff on their site.

• They share content with us: vice versa.• We scrape and are scraped: the great

mandala of distribution, aggregation, distribution

• We lose control of content (among other things)

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6. Remix and pass on.

• The people want to remix. When we give them stuff to remix, what is our responsibility?

• If you’re not in the conversation, you’• The people will distribute for us (see:

Jon Stewart on CNN Crossfire v. iFilm). • How can we be open-source?• Reconsider fair comment with

copyright

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7. We become ad networks.

• See NashvilleIsTalking.com: sharing promotion, content, training, money.

• We will become brokers of trust for advertisers and brokers of money for minimedia.

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8. Can we ever be too transparent?

• The highest virtue of this world is transparency (see: Dan Rather). We must catch up.

• So what happens when reporters do say what they think? What’s the crime in that?

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9. Who owns the wisdom of the crowd?

• Google, Flickr, Del.icio.us, forums, blog aggregations all capture the wisdom of the crowd, the whole greater than the sum of the parts. Who owns what then?

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10. Small is the new big

• Beware the cash cow in the coal mine (see: TV Guide). We, too, will get small.

• Where is our true value?• What are our businesses then?

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So, we need:

• Education• Discussion and study• Updated law

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