http://beatblogging.org/2009/06/23/tuesday-dose-of-social-media-trouble-in-citizen-journalism-land-for-flickr/ Pushing the practice of beat reporting Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:26:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://beatblogging.org/2009/06/23/tuesday-dose-of-social-media-trouble-in-citizen-journalism-land-for-flickr/comment-page-1/#comment-5670 Bill Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:41:29 +0000 http://beatblogging.org/?p=4102#comment-5670 You are certainly right that the ease with which accounts can be frozen certainly does pose a large problem for citizen journalism. Even an appeal process wont do the trick, though, if you are looking to get word out swiftly about events happening right now. For something like the Iran situation, a delay of a week or just a few days might be more than enough for the government to accomplish its ends. We do, after all, live in very very fickle times. Perhaps what should be arbitrated is the freezing of the account rather than its re-initiation. There are some great interviews with top journalists about challenges facing the future of professional and citizen journalism at http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid69 which I have found useful. You are certainly right that the ease with which accounts can be frozen certainly does pose a large problem for citizen journalism. Even an appeal process wont do the trick, though, if you are looking to get word out swiftly about events happening right now. For something like the Iran situation, a delay of a week or just a few days might be more than enough for the government to accomplish its ends. We do, after all, live in very very fickle times. Perhaps what should be arbitrated is the freezing of the account rather than its re-initiation. There are some great interviews with top journalists about challenges facing the future of professional and citizen journalism at http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid69 which I have found useful.

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