Citizen Journalism

PAGE ONE of today’s New York Times is a lesson in the power of detail.

I’m surprised when I see friends and colleagues reposting dubious claims about the coronavirus and the 5G network on social media. They…

Improbable that it might seem, the admins of a facebook set up to encourage migration to Tasmania have decided to disallow any post about…

The true value of the internet is being revealed in the public response to the coronavirus pandemic. In bringing people together and…

“…stopping misinformation requires social media platforms, journalists, fact checkers, and citizens all to take action”

Like a car following a road, our stories traverse the terrain of the imagination. Where we start our story, and our looping back or…

Communicating for change

Civic affairs reporting can be challenging for citizen journalists because it requires the dedication of time and defining the motivations…

WAY BACK, I worked in radio news and current affairs and learned how important it is for interviewees to be able to get their message…

Online media thrust organisations into the reputation economy.

How stories spread and why citizen journalists should be wary of them

This is an excursion into the world of publishing and photographic interpretation. It is about images and the meaning people draw from…

Online journalism is visual journalism. Adapting how newspapers use photographs can increase the number of readers who look past the image…

A FEW YEARS back my partner and I decided to catch the lake boat from Cynthia Bay to Echo Point hut on Tasmania’s Lake St Clair. Our plan…

A simple request for dialog, not authoritarianism, in managing social media

THERE’S an interesting exhibition in the Mid-North Coast NSW town of Wauchope. I found it pasted on the walls.

RT has been implicated in foreign interference in the US election. An agency in Russia’s information warfare program, RT has a presence in…

A word salad is a mash-up of words strung together to make something sound credible.

REMEMBER 9/11 and the conspiracy theories about moslems being warned to stay away from the World Trade Centre just before it was attacked?

What do we do when we are attacked online?