Revolutions in Journalism

The latest revolution in journalism was released yesterday. A book that allows the reader to actively participate by making changes and adding information is available on the internet.

Dan Gillmor's book, "We The Media" was released yesterday under a Creative Commons License. This means that the public is given rights by authors/artists to use their work; whilst keeping some of the original rights. Readers can log on to the site and make changes, add information or even make audio recordings of the work. This approach is hailed as a journalistic rennaissance.

In his book, Gillmor traces the development of the rise of personal media. For him, September 11th marked a change in the way people communicated news. For the first time "Big Media" was simply not fast or accurate enough and people wanted more. E-mails, websites and even SMS's became a way to get the story out there.

The Creative Commons License Law provides a way to give a voice to the voiceless. This could the the first few steps towards a truly democratic media.

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