Tag Archives: Clay Shirky
Amateurs may be the future of journalism, but can we count on them?
Timothy Lee has a post from March 25 at TechDirt about the future of hyperlocal news.
Lee tells us something that we already know: the Web provides a decentralized framework that will easily support a disorganized news system that doesn’t look much like the hierarchical one that currently runs the paper-dominated journalism industry.
Rather than a handful of [...]
Revolution and the unthinkable scenario
We are living through a revolution, writes Clay Shirky, just like the one that Gutenberg started around 1500. And all revolutions are more or less the same, he writes: “The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff gets put in its place.”
The old stuff getting broken in this case is newspapers. More and more [...]
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Shirky says micropayments won’t work
The big debate in the media guru world right now is focused on micropayments for news. How do we save the newspaper, or rather, the news industry? Micropayments. How do we get people to be OK with paying for news again? Micropayments! Bald and ugly? Micropayments!
Yes, they’re the current week’s solution to all the news [...]
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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