Dan Gillmor wrote an important post for the Center for Citizen Media, titled “Citizen Media: A Progress Report.” It’s an interesting update on the current state of citizen journalism. Dan looks back over the past year and comments on some of the projects, tools, methods, failures, challenges and opportunities found within the citizen media world.
As a Board member for the Action Coalition for Media Education (with a new website-in-progress), I was pleased to see Dan writing about Media Literacy within this context of participatory media. Here’s a bit from the post:
What becomes increasingly clear is the need to update media literacy for a media-saturated age. When people are creators of media, not just consumers, the task is more complex — but more important than ever.
Think of media literacy in terms of principles, not a bunch of specific must-do kinds of instructions. They differ somewhat depending on the role one is playing in the media ecosystem.
But even those of us who are producers of media are much more often consumers. When we’re in that role, we should consider these principles:”
Read on at Citizen Media: A Progress Report.
