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Old media content – New Media platform. An example.

By sofiagk, on February 7th, 2005

Contemplating the Open Democracy concept â€“ a merge of traditional media values and new media ones. This is a good example of how things could work and how things do not work when trying to apply old medium ways of thinking to a new medium. Substitute Open Democracy with numerous other websites and you get the same blog post more or less.

Traditional media values surviving in Open Democracy are strict editorial control and thorough fact â€“ checking. New media ones are the forums, links etc.

What is wrong? Two things mainly.

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Trust me I work in the Media

By sofiagk, on January 18th, 2005

Very interesting Globalization & Media Cultures tonight with two guests. A journalist (Greek foreign correspondent) and the owner of a strategic management gathering and communications consulting company.

Iâ€™m not including names and details as I plan to be critical so indulge me.

The journalist was very good, took us through Habermasâ€™ theory of the public sphere, the role of the media, globalization as it affects a small country media correspondence.

And then there was the consultant. Extremely intelligent, well read, very upfront. Good on him I say. He didnâ€™t try to say that he is not a spin-doctor, that he does not take advantage of the media, that he does not play the game. He admitted that not only he does all that but that he also does it happily because he wants to survive and be successful in this market.

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