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Crunch Time
In case you wonder what the book link on the right is all about – here’s an interview trail I just did with video journalism guru David Dunkley Gyimah. Hopefully it explains it all a little. We did it at BAFTA, which has just announced it’s dropping current affairs from its roster of TV awards.…
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Academic interest
One of the smartest and most sensible social scientists writing about journalism and the news is Michael Schudson. He has a piece in the Cuadernos de Información (N°19, 2006) which is published by the Communications Faculty at Santiago’s massive Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. It’s called The Anarchy of Events and the Anxiety of Story…
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A second look at Second Life
Unfortunately, as the interview was commencing, the event was attacked by a “griefer,” someone intent on disrupting the proceedings. The griefer managed to assault the CNET theater for 15 minutes with – well, there’s no way to say this delicately – animated flying penises.Second Life – let the backlash begin. Back in December, the Second…
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Bob Jones blogs the gap between local journalism and the web with this story about how it feels to be on the wrong side of the mental health system in Britain.