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My name is Christopher Eck. Experience is the highest level of job training.Veteran journalists specialized in mediums through which each agent best communicated a message.Newspaper staff ,through mastery of article writing.accumulated sufficient style and technique to sustain their career. Broadcasters talked,smiled and cut to commercial.Once a radio personality learned  to engage  audiences and pimp products for the advertisers, his duties were also prone to autopilot mode.Nevermind the reporting trade that each cultivated,season upon season,thereby tracking and compiling their highly commercialized information.     Internet Journalists are expected to perform all of these tedious assignments and then develop microscopic paragraphs,procure and scrutinize all photo,video and documentation to capture their readers, for thirty seconds.          Meanwhile contemporary writers,soon or late, must learn  what it takes to b...

 October 1999 the U.S.-based magazine  Jane's Intelligence Review  decided not to publish an article before allowing the mentioned Slashdot community to evaluate it; the article was criticized by Slashdot's visitors, w hereafter the editor withdrew the original piece and replaced it with on based on the critics' comments (see Leonard, 1999). This was a pure form of open source journalism: the use of so-called 'open' sources on the Internet to check facts. The term 'open-source' stems from the procedure to make software source codes openly available so that experts and regular users will find and correct glitches and modify the original code to their own benefit (O'Reilly, 1998). Open source journalism applies this principle to news stories - making them available for scrutiny and corrections before final publication (Moon, 1999). As Moon summarizes: "Advocates of open-source journalism proclaim it as the new journalism, perfecting all that is wro...

Model 1: Online  Journalism The content-connectivity domain intersects with (vertical axis) the participatory communication domain, where the news site indeed consists of a range of options for users and producers to interact, discuss, up- or download, to communicate in a participatory way (see the discussion on various forms of interactivity below). A brief note has to made regarding the notion of 'content', as - in Web designer terms - everything is content online, including banner ads, chat rooms, research papers and what not. Editorial content is defined here as texts (including written and spoken word, moving and still images), produced and/or edited by journalists. Public connectivity can be seen as what Odlyzko (2001: p. 6) calls 'standard point-to-point' communication, to which one might add the notion of 'public' communication without a formal barrier of entry (such as an editing or moderation process). The vertical axis represents the level of parti...

Online journalism can be functionally differentiated from other kinds of journalism by using its technological component as a determining factor in terms of (operational) definition. The online journalist has to make decisions on which media formats best tell a certain story (multimediality), has to allow room for options for the public to respond, interact or even customize certain stories (interactivity) and must consider ways to connect the story to other stories, archives, resources and so on through hyperlinks (hypertextuality). This is the 'ideal-typical' form of online journalism, as professed by an increasing number of professionals and academics worldwide (in the U.S. see Reddick and King, 2001; in Germany see Friedrichsen et al., 1999: pp. 139-143; in The Netherlands see Stielstra, 1999). The consensus among the online media professionals internationally, such as it is voiced at gatherings like the NetMedia Conference in Great Britain or the Editor & Publisher In...

     The Internet and specifically its graphic interface the World Wide Web is reaching a level of saturation and widespread adoption throughout the world. Specifically for journalism practiced online - in the discipline of computer-assisted reporting (CAR) and a specific kind of journalism: online journalism - we can now identify and theorize about the impacts the global system of networked computers has had on journalism.       Using the Internet as a reporting tool for 'traditional' media - all media except the Internet - can be typified as the use and availability of searchable archives, databases and news sources on the Internet by journalists. This reporting practice is still in its infancy in many countries as compared to for example the U.S. (Verwey, 2000). Several scholars have studied the effects of CAR on journalists and news work  concluding that beyond obvious benefits (more information, more sources, more checks and balances fr...

The history of rock music. This course, part 1 of a 2-course sequence, examines the history of rock, primarily as it unfolded in the United States, from the days before rock (pre-1955) to the end of the 1960s. This course covers the music of Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Phil Spector, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, and many more artists, with an emphasis both on cultural context and on the music itself. We will also explore how developments in the music business and in technology helped shape the ways in which styles developed. Rock emerged in the mid 1950s as a blending of mainstream pop, rhythm and blues, and country and western--styles that previously had remained relatively separate. This new style became the music of the emerging youth culture and was often associated with teen rebellion. We will follow the story of how this rowdy first wave of rock and roll (1955-59) was tamed in the early 60s but came roaring back...

A report by the International Association of Chiefs of Police warns that "recording driving habits" could raise First Amendment concerns. It noted that plate readers might record "vehicles parked at addiction-counseling meetings, doctors' offices, health clinics, or even staging areas for political protests." The association urged members to consider establishing "more specific criteria for granting access" to the information and to designate it only for "official use." The Surveillance Economy View Graphics License-plate databases contain revealing information about people's locations. Police can generally obtain it without a judge's approval. By comparison, prosecutors typically get a court order to install GPS trackers on people's cars or to track people's location via cellphone. License-plate databases don't contain names and addresses of vehicle owners, although that information is available...

 Open Course ware lectures  hooked me in 2006 . I first discovered the free access to college lectures through the website I called MIT FOR FREE . Harvard,Princeton, U.C. Berkeley and many more,still today. The obsession with informal learning was triggered by  an academic suspension from the University of Memphis,which  severed my official pursuit of an  Internet Journalism degree.I am certain that most t every, accredited field of study places upon the learner certain quotas of research and skill development. But the skill set for journalists  in the digital age,according to the 2003 U of M Faculty members, broke the mold.(Fast forward 10 years.) They were right. This is a story about the vessel of education and the freedom everyone deserves. Converge or concede.

Data we live with might seem encoded to us,but programs designed to convert information into stories,maps,and timelines are taking over. Not really,  notice that all preexisting data used in the table is cloned, the convergence of the clone is introduced to the other clones and VIOLA!The hybrid product is a  vessel of evolution.Converge or concede.

Educating People On Demand.Information cops find on a device confiscated during a simple arrest can and will be used against you.FACT.

  Data is useless without motion. Internet access disturbed the capability structure found within the inherent business models used for  print,broadcast, and radio broadcasters.Today,the audience broadcasts clearer. Today, the audience  conveys their message.The audience is the medium of every social network.The increase of membership strengthens  specific layers within the network 'pool of  information'. Free distribution negates the economic support that advertising  slum lords levied to control every vessel of news delivery. Converge or concede.