Nearly 1 in 3 people said they trust blogs AND 1 in 4 said they dropped a news sources in the last year because it lost their trust, according to a BBC/Reuters/Media Center Poll on Media Trust released in May.
The Media Center is working on three issues to explain culture in the connected society. The “Know-Trust” networks, digital everything and the empowered individual. Information is slowly starting to filter out from the We Media Global Forum held earlier this month in London. One interesting idea to emerge from the conference (more than 300 people from 27 countries) is the We Media Global Initiative, a work in progress (Wiki here), to harness the power of information technologies and human ingenuity for the common good by inspiring and incubating investment in bottom-up media.
We live in a remixed mash-up world and we need to move over the mindset of MSM vs. Bloggers, according to Richard Sambrook with the BBC in an interview with Media Center’s Andrew Nachison. He spoke also about citizen journalism and how it can be broken down into eyewitness, blogs and opinions, breaking news…and he mentions that there are experts out there.
It will be interesting to watch talk-back journalism, participatory media and media from sources outside of the mainstream media emerge during this dynamic period. The news will never be the same...
A question to ponder: how can we create a place for solutions to our country's problems. I believe that establishing a nonpartisan place, a "center aisle" as it were would be a great help. What we have now is a place in which people lock onto labels and in which there is little civil discourse. Oddly, I blogged on this earlier today. Would love to know your thoughts, Mother.
Posted by: Mamacita | May 18, 2006 at 10:02 PM