[it’s not new media, it’s a new relationship]
Great quote from Jeff Jarvis, via Kristine Lowe:
They think this is ‘new media.’ And they think that’s something they need to try. (I would have hoped they’d have come to that conclusion about 12 years ago.) Of course, it’s not just new media. This should be a new relationship. It should be about discovering and joining in a conversation.
I saw another sign of this at the BBC the other day when staffers kept fretting about filling a blog, as if it were a show rundown or a blank page. I told them to stop looking it that way and instead to take the advice I’m giving my students: Find the conversation. Join in. Contribute to it — indeed, contribute journalism, answering questions, finding facts, fact-checking the ones that are there. But to do that — beware — you have to talk at a human level with other humans with opinions (who don’t want to talk to a closed door).
Makes me happy not to be in a new media department. Rather a different approach, really.
November 12th, 2007 at 15:25
Hi,
My name is Alessandra Micalizzi and I’m a PHD student in New media and communication. For my final progect I created a blog to share the information, the analysis and the content of my research (that is about the use of the net for mourning and bereavement)… It was (it is yet) a good instrument to identify other bloggers that used the e-journal to “live” their grieves, but also to have a track of my thoughts, bibliographivcal references ets…By my blog I recieved also the support of other researchers or simple interested in this argument…
I would know if you have some information about studies that used blog as instrument of research..
I would be very happy if I could have a short talk (via e-mail or msn) with you about your interesting perspective of study blogging…
I download the article about distributed narrative..but I think could be very interesting also
Blogging Thoughts: Personal Publication as an Online Research Tool
could you tell me how can I have a copy or an abstract, please?
thanks a lot for your attention
alessandra
November 12th, 2007 at 15:37
Alessandra, you can download the article from my publications page at jilltxt.net/txt! Good luck with your blogging and with your thesis!
November 13th, 2007 at 12:27
Thanks a lot!
I hope to read you again :)
alessandra