{"id":2161,"date":"2004-02-28T09:24:45","date_gmt":"2004-02-28T13:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/02\/28\/a-revolution-in-news-production-and-co"},"modified":"2004-02-28T09:24:45","modified_gmt":"2004-02-28T13:24:45","slug":"a-revolution-in-news-production-and-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/28\/a-revolution-in-news-production-and-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"A Revolution in News Production and Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2813'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ohmynews.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/ohmysplash.jpg\" width=\"147\" height=\"112\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a><br \/>\n        <strong>&quot;Every citizen&#8217;s a reporter. Journalists aren&#8217;t some exotic species, they&#8217;re<br \/>\neveryone who seeks to take new developments, put them into writing, and share<br \/>\nthem with others.&quot; &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/ohmynews.com\/specialpage\/special_view.asp?menu_code=04219\">(Oh Yeon Ho) <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the past several days the Dowbrigade has been researching an upcoming<br \/>\n        article on the world&#8217;s first Internet President &#8211; Roh Moo-hyu of South<br \/>\n        Korea.&nbsp; A<br \/>\n        virtually unknown labor lawyer just two years ago, he rode a wave of<br \/>\n        Internet organizing and fundraising to the Presidency of the most wired<br \/>\n        nation on earth (80% of homes have Broadband access to the Internet)<br \/>\n        one year ago. There are many valuable parallels and lessons to be learned<br \/>\n        from Roh&#8217;s electoral saga and first year in office.<\/p>\n<p>But that is a story for a later date and another publication (although<br \/>\n        it will indubitably be posted to the Dowbrigade News). What is currently<br \/>\n        blowing our mind is the discovery that the Roh victory was part of a<br \/>\n        major media revolution spurred by thousands of &quot;Citizen Journalists&quot;.<br \/>\n        All of the stuff that is starting to explode on the US media scene is<br \/>\n        already in full-blown implementation in Asia! Who knew?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/newjour.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"165\" align=\"right\">This<br \/>\n        merely reinforces for the Dowbrigade the absolutely necessary global<br \/>\n        nature of the revolution which is just starting to make its true dimensions<br \/>\n        and potential know.&nbsp; We in America are not necessarily the center<br \/>\n        of the Universe, or even of CyberSpace. Furthermore, in many cases we<br \/>\n        are not even close to the cutting edge. Digital democracy is starting<br \/>\n        to look like one of these.<\/p>\n<p>Much more on this as our investigation continues.&nbsp; Meanwhile, check<br \/>\n        out<a href=\"http:\/\/ohmynews.com\/specialpage\/special_view.asp?menu_code=04219\"> OhMyNews.com<\/a>, the site that reputedly got Roh elected in South Korea.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Every citizen&#8217;s a reporter. Journalists aren&#8217;t some exotic species, they&#8217;re everyone who seeks to take new developments, put them into writing, and share them with others.&quot; &#8230; (Oh Yeon Ho) For the past several days the Dowbrigade has been researching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/28\/a-revolution-in-news-production-and-consumption\/\">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-2161","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\/2161","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=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}