Mediactive

6. October 2009 by ohowell.

Dan Gillmor’s new project is called Mediactive, a blog that will create a “User’s Guide to Democratized Media”.  The blog will result in a book to be published later.  At the same time it is an ongoing conversation about new media, journalism, participation and eBooks, and a public writing project.  It is certainly not the first blog that is designed to become a book, but prehaps one of the most interesting.

The core of the project is to show every user of online media how to become a creator of media with their own means and following their own agenda and interests.  The very essence of civic media and citizen journalism.

The project is based upon previous work by Gillmor at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society: Principles for a New Media Literacy.

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