At long last, it's become clear in media and technology circles that upgrading our information supply, while crucial, is not enough to solve the misinformation crisis. We also need to upgrade ourselve...
Dan Gillmor
co-founder News Co/Lab Arizona State University (via video)
Dan Gillmor is co-founder of the News Co/Lab at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. It’s an experimental lab that collaborates with others to improve the information ecosystem and counter misinformation's malign effects by focusing on better demand, not just supply. He co-teaches a course in digital media literacy for ASU Online.
A former fellow at Harvard University's Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, Dan is the author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People (2004) -- the first book to look deeply at the then-emerging citizen-media movement -- and Mediactive (2010), a book aimed at improving digital media literacy. His in-progress book, tentatively entitled Permission Taken, looks at the way governments and corporations are centralizing control over technology and communications, and asks what we can do to reverse this trend.
Dan wrote a popular business and technology column for the San Jose Mercury News (then the daily newspaper of Silicon Valley) from 1994 to 2005 and launched one of the earliest mainstream journalism blogs in 1999. He has co-founded, invested in and advised a number of digital media startups, and is on the board of several journalism-related non-profit organizations.
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#IJF19 /
5 april 2019
Witness vs. forensics: the future of data-driven investigative reporting. #ijf19talk by Julia Angwin
#ijf19talk by Julia Angwin. Moderated by Dan Gillmor. Journalism has long focused on being a witness to events that the public would not otherwise get to see. But now that the public has its own witn...
We definitely need to upgrade the supply of journalism. But we equally need to upgrade *us* -- the "consumers" of media and other information, by also focusing on the demand side of the equation. Jour...
The debate surrounding media literacy is often too focused on the impact of social media platforms (namely Facebook and Twitter) on the one hand, and the ability and responsibility of citizens to eval...
Orit Kopel, co-founder of WikiTribune, will discuss with Dan Gillmor, from the School of Journalism Arizona State University, the inventive Wiki-based news platform which aims to fix the news. Wik...
Facebook and Arizona State University (ASU) last month brought 50 educators, academics, journalists, technologists, platforms and third party organizations together for a working group on news literac...
#IJF17 /
8 april 2017
Journalism after Snowden: the future of the free press in the surveillance state
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The emergence of new technologies within the reach of all and of a wider and more accessible Internet have facilitated the creation and the sharing of non-professional news&opinion and accelerated...
With the emergence of a widespread surveillance system in the NSA files, the Edward Snowden case has deeply affected journalism, both in terms of the role played by the media and of the practices adop...