{"id":1947,"date":"2004-01-15T00:22:55","date_gmt":"2004-01-15T04:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/01\/15\/beware-the-citizen-blogger\/"},"modified":"2004-01-15T00:22:55","modified_gmt":"2004-01-15T04:22:55","slug":"beware-the-citizen-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/15\/beware-the-citizen-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the Citizen Blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2290'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There has been a lot of discussion around the &#x2018;Sphere (at least the corner of it that the Dowbrigade inhabits) about the idea of &#x201C;Citizen Blogger&#x201D; or &#x201C;Citizen Journalist&#x201D;.  The expressions seem to have struck a chord, to express something essential about what we are doing here, but we have yet to read a succinct definition of the concept.<\/p>\n<p>A daunting task, defining a concept.  However, the Dowbrigade is not easily daunted, so we&#x2019;ll give it a shot. The word &#x201C;Citizen&#x201D; came into Middle English from Anglo-French in the 14th century, related to the root <i>cit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of discussion around the &#x2018;Sphere (at least the corner of it that the Dowbrigade inhabits) about the idea of &#x201C;Citizen Blogger&#x201D; or &#x201C;Citizen Journalist&#x201D;. The expressions seem to have struck a chord, to express something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/15\/beware-the-citizen-blogger\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}