[MGP-Forum Announce] Should Corporations Control Communications?

[steve at coanews.org]

Steven, looks like a very interesting project, and I'm happy it is non-profit.

I would not consider participatory media only journalism or news.  I  
would certainly consider myspace participatory media, but hardly  
journalism or news.

Here is the defination I currently use:

Media production where a “citizen, or group of citizens, play an  
active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and  
disseminating news and information”

So by "information" we could mean any kind of communication.

Anyway, seems like a good project,

Steve

Quoting clift at publicus.net:

>  Back to Steve 'coas' original point, you might find our   
> citizen-based model of governance/non-profit ownership of local   
> Issues Forums to be of interest.
>
> See: http://e-democracy.org/if
>
> We've been building our sustainable model since 1994, from the   
> perspective of 'online citizen participation.' This whole 'media'   
> thing seems to flow from the idea of making media more participatory  
>  online while our approach is to add publicness (and civility) to   
> natural patterns of more or less private interaction online. 'Media'  
>  also seems to imply a headline or news, where we have no such   
> expectation.
>
> One new example of adding publicness is our campaign to encourage   
> people to 'tag' there content across many sites like YouTube and   
> Flickr 'mnpolitics' See: http://e-democracy.org/voices
>
> This is tied to our MN Gubernatorial E-Debate.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven Clift
> E-Democracy.Org
>