Mediactive Dan Gillmor 9780984633609 Books
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We're in an age of information overload, and too much of what we watch, hear and read is mistaken, deceitful or even dangerous. Yet you and I can take control and make media serve us -- all of us -- by being active consumers and participants. Here's how. With a Foreword by Clay Shirky.
Mediactive Dan Gillmor 9780984633609 Books
I've always been interested in communications, both the content and technical side. While flirting with content, I've have long been focused on the technology, including in my work.With the growth of newer media, a couple of years ago I was cajoled by a friend into blogging, despite my objections. I didn't think think I had much to say other than 140-character messages on Twitter.
It turns out my friend was right and I was wrong. I do like it, and some others like what I write. I've been looking, off and on, for more guidance in either what I'm doing now or a possible next step, and this book serves that purpose well. It outlines a principled approach toward being a valued and trusted contributor to media. It also deals with important business issues, and it sparks me to consider if there may be a business angle to my writing that I have not considered. Very valuable to me is the discussion of the tools for media creation. Though I am a technologist, it is not in this area, and reading Dan's clear, concise discussion of tools makes me so grateful I did not try to figure it all out on my own. There is excellent advise on taking ownership of your media presence, so others do not.
Media creation is half the book. The other half is media consumption. Through following Dan on Twitter, I had some sense of some of this already. The book goes much further. As with media creation, a principled approach is described, along with a summary of useful tools for media consumers. A key principle is to be skeptical of everything, but not equally skeptical of all things.
Finally, I recommend the book for anyone raising kids or who works with young people. These principles are important to impart to them, in my view, and this book has good advice on how to do so.
If you have become too cynical on journalism, or are sitting on the fence about being a content creator, I recommend you get this book and see if the principles promoted might help.
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Mediactive Dan Gillmor 9780984633609 Books Reviews
Very interesting approach to analyze the influence of the new information environment. Is easy to understand for me and my level of english.
Gillmor gives some good insight into the ever-changing communications landscape. He offers tips and advice for becoming active in social media, the blogosphere, and other emerging technologies.
He has a good view of media today. The examples are helpful and very effective. Touches on media literacy and professional media production.
Both as a primer and refresher Gillmor makes sense of the anarchic new internet era. His list of do's and dont's are required reading for journalists, business executives, and especially politicians who wish to avoid 'interneticide'. The prescriptive changes he recommends to our policy makers and industry leaders will result in a vastly more humane and more universal internet.
I reviewed this book for my job as a media researcher. Some of this review is modified from my longer review for the Center for Social Media, which you can read here [...].
I found Mediactive to be both personally and professionally inspiring. Professionally, Gillmor got me thinking with his thoughts on ethics, norms and the big legal issues of our time (free speech, privacy, copyright, and corporate media consolidation, etc.) and his thought-provoking lists of ideas ideas for running a hypothetical news organization (his would link prominently and often to competitors, ideas for reshaping journalism education (he'd encourage cross-disciplinary study and require courses in research methodology and business concepts) and ideas for reshaping the ways in which stories are written and disseminated (he'd include a "Big Topic" overview for each story, and make revisions and updates transparent, similar to Wikipedia articles. Personally, Gillmor got me thinking about my own online "brand" and the ways in which I use social networking sites. This book has made me much more systematic and conscious about the way I present myself online.
Mediactive is easy-to-read and can reach a large audience, but this strength is also its weakness. As the reviewer Len Feldman points out, readers may find certain parts of the book more useful than others. I personally thoroughly enjoyed Gillmor's thoughts on journalism education, but I was less enthralled with his chapter on media literacy. In it, Gillmor includes quotes from experts in the field about why media literacy is currently lacking in schools, but I think he could have made a stronger argument for systematic media literacy education at all levels. That being said, this book is a terrific read! It's fun enough to read for pleasure, and it would also make for a great textbook in a college-level media studies or journalism course. I highly recommend checking it out!
Basically, stuff that common sense should tell you Ask questions, think for yourself, don't believe anything you are told unless you have the proof of it in your hands. Participate, ask those questions. Demand answers, demand the truth.
But something like this should be required reading for all High School students, because we don't, as a society, really question the information we are fed daily...where does it come from, why is it important, who thinks it's important, is it slanted to influence me, and why and by whom?
We don't at the very least, think about it.. and we should.
Recommended reading.
There are cases presented in here that just smoked me. I thought I was pretty jaded and savvy, and I found I had been suckered in like everyone else. Very eye opening.
I've always been interested in communications, both the content and technical side. While flirting with content, I've have long been focused on the technology, including in my work.
With the growth of newer media, a couple of years ago I was cajoled by a friend into blogging, despite my objections. I didn't think think I had much to say other than 140-character messages on Twitter.
It turns out my friend was right and I was wrong. I do like it, and some others like what I write. I've been looking, off and on, for more guidance in either what I'm doing now or a possible next step, and this book serves that purpose well. It outlines a principled approach toward being a valued and trusted contributor to media. It also deals with important business issues, and it sparks me to consider if there may be a business angle to my writing that I have not considered. Very valuable to me is the discussion of the tools for media creation. Though I am a technologist, it is not in this area, and reading Dan's clear, concise discussion of tools makes me so grateful I did not try to figure it all out on my own. There is excellent advise on taking ownership of your media presence, so others do not.
Media creation is half the book. The other half is media consumption. Through following Dan on Twitter, I had some sense of some of this already. The book goes much further. As with media creation, a principled approach is described, along with a summary of useful tools for media consumers. A key principle is to be skeptical of everything, but not equally skeptical of all things.
Finally, I recommend the book for anyone raising kids or who works with young people. These principles are important to impart to them, in my view, and this book has good advice on how to do so.
If you have become too cynical on journalism, or are sitting on the fence about being a content creator, I recommend you get this book and see if the principles promoted might help.
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