I teach journalism at NYU, write the blog PressThink, direct NewAssignment.Net, and try to grok new media. I don't do lifecasting but mindcasting on Twitter.
I thought this was a weak, weak article. He conveniently neglected to mention that people will cell phones gave us this video capturing a murder in a chicago schoolyard http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp... and this video of a BART police officer shooting a man in the back: http://www.youtube.com/watch.... Weak, weak. He then goes on...
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- j1m
Yes, I really like that term. Contrarianism, like being "meta", is often used as a cheap way of faking depth without doing any actual work.
- Ruchira S. Datta