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and Paramilitary America. 37. O’Connell, Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World. 38. “The Rise of Cloud Cities & Citizen Journalism with Balaji Srinivasan,” The Paradox Podcast, July 29, 2020, https://podcastnotes.org/paradox-podcast/balaji-srinivasan-on-the-paradox-podcast/. 39. Kosloff and Srinivasan, “#3
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the Future of the Internet,” Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist, August 11, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMuIyspn7s0. 42. “The Rise of Cloud Cities & Citizen Journalism with Balaji Srinivasan.” 43. Balaji Srinivasan, Twitter post, August 28, 2020, http://twitter.com/balajis. See Anna Verena Eireiner, “Promises of Urbanism: New Songdo City
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of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (New York: Metropolitan, 2019). 56. “The Rise of Cloud Cities & Citizen Journalism with Balaji Srinivasan.” 57. On the place they ended up see Justin Gaudet, “Paddle Prairie Metis Settlement,” Canadian Encyclopedia, August 3, 2021, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia
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protesters, and later organized cultural nights. Toward the end of the movement, the Hong Kong government deported an Indonesian migrant worker, Yuli Riswati, over her citizen journalism on the protests. At a rally my partner and I attended, Yuli addressed the crowd in Cantonese through a long-distance call, and told Hong
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one that had hammered Apple stock down by 5.4 percent, less than a month after the UAL presumed accident: CNN’s plunge into online citizen journalism backfired yesterday when the cable-news outlet posted what turned out to be a bogus report claiming that Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs
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.skygrid.com) and StockMood (www.stockmood. com). Firstrain.com aggregates a wide range of services. The Text Fr ontier 225 3. James Callan, “CNN’s Citizen Journalism Goes ‘Awry’ with False Report on Jobs,” Bloomberg News, October 4, 2008. 4. Paul Tetlock, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky, and Sofus Macskassy, “More Than Words: Quantifying
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start-ups, any interest in journalistic innovation seems to come from the desire to cut costs, which is why more of them are experimenting with “citizen journalism” than, say, professionally shot video. For all the talk about how people now consume information differently, the real online revolution is in advertising. For more
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push traditional publications to adapt online economics: inexpensive ads and content that costs as little as possible. Their ideas for the future of journalism include citizen journalism, nonprofit-funded reporting, and various innovations based on publicly available data. But they don’t seem to involve many journalists. Few companies have done more
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social production, and my view is that they haven’t really delivered the goods.” Although nonprofit groups like the Knight Foundation have become enamored with citizen journalism projects, their track record has been uneven at best. A 2010 study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism that examined
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are willing to pay for, while those that give away content will have to cut costs and attract the broadest audience possible. They’ll embrace citizen journalism, maximize page views by creating photo galleries, or use “search engine optimization” to choose stories and headlines that will score high in Google’s search
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economics inhibit cooperation?’ Journal of Economic Perspectives, 7(2): 159–71. Frank, R. H., T. Gilovich and D. T. Regan (1996) ‘Do economists make bad citizens?’ Journal of Economic Perspectives, 10(1): 187–92. Franklin, J. and A. Daoud (1988) Introduction to Proofs in Mathematics, New York: Prentice-Hall. Freeman, A. and
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everything from CFCs to social media has the potential to cause collateral damage.43 The Internet used to be exciting because of the creative collaborations, citizen journalism and networked science it enabled. Instead it first became about time wasting, pointless rancour and advertising, and then about an exercise in monopoly capitalism and
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decentralized access to unedited stories. In this medium, contributions by intellectuals lose their power to create a focus.”25 To be sure, the rise of citizen journalism brings us information that the mainstream media lacks either the budget for or fortitude to cover. Initial reports of damage during Hurricane Katrina came from
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and American Life Project, 52 Pew Research, 51 Pinchbeck, Daniel, 253 Pinker, Steven, 227–28 planking, 43 plastic surgery, 149–51 play. See games politics: citizen journalism and, 52–53; fractalnoia and, 209, 212, 216; generational issues and, 18; narrative collapse and, 7, 18, 28, 43–50, 52–53, 64, 67; overwinding
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of video are uploaded every minute. In some ways, YouTube could be considered the largest volunteer organization in the world. Or consider the rise of citizen journalism, flourishing on sites such as Wikinews and the South Korean OhmyNews, which offers anyone who has knowledge of breaking news events the opportunity to circumvent
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