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Glossary Report Outline

Possible Case Studies / types of local media:

Forums -- Wikis -- Blogs -- "Newspaper sites" (ex MetroMode below, describe this better) ad-hoc, citizen funded

  • RocWiki http://rocwiki.org/ // http://civicwiki.org
    • more of a repository, but ours in Ann Arbor is used to document city changes, etc.
  • New Orleans citizen media (MH has source through http://thinknola.com/ )
  • DetroitYES forums, many other examples http://detroityes.com/
  • Local news blogs, ex http://arborupdate.org
  • Libraries and local news? (only a couple progressive examples)
  • Local digital "newspapers" with organized funding, ex: http://www.metromodemedia.com/ and cousins
  • Down to the scale of neighborhood-level discussion lists?
  • CurrentTV -- Al Gore TV. UGC. Shorts. Pulled from audience content in some way. They pay for it. They buy all the rights forever and always. Aspiring producers go here to get their stuff? Learn stuff? Launching an IPO.
  • The Root. Af am. target. Owned by Wash Post. Not user generated.
  • WikiLeaks
  • GroundReport -- an attempt to do national news, most of it submitted by users
  • ChiTown Daily News. Knight Grantee. Ex-journalist started a paper.

Being written:

  • Global Voices by an Annenberg PhD candidate

Looking for: Aggregator, News Agency

Look at what they're doing in terms of community

Cases in Progress

The Forum – (audience-contributed, nonprofit, hyperlocal, all authors volunteer) Summer Interns Best of the ones we have; needs tying in to typology, additional content analysis of the site

Backfence – (audience-contributed, commercial, hyperlocal, all authors volunteer, FAILED) Summer Interns needs to be re-written from the ground up

Vocalo – (Public radio bold experiment, audience-generated)

Summer Interns Tie to typology, additional content analysis of the site, and some up-to-date quotes as the project is really new and changing fast.

Baristanet – (Author-centric, hyperlocal, hobbyist business model) Summer Interns Tie to typology, some additional content analysis of the site, additional quotes, analysis.

Ohmynews – (Publisher, international, pro-am, unique and possibly non transferable business model) Summer Interns This is a shortened and differently focused version of Mary’s. Needs re-writing to typology and format.


Global Voices (Publisher with elements of agency and audience-generated, nonprofit, successful in everything but commercial revenue and mass media reach on non-crisis stories) Lokman Tsui, Annenberg East, to write


STEP - (non-media nonprofit using online video for activism) Summer Interns Not a traditional case study, nor part of typology, but an example of non-media NGO. We have a 9-minute video produced by KSG class and a paper. Needs filling out, clean-up and tie into whatever our conclusion is about non-profits and new media.


Notes from case-studies

Include the population size as well publication reach (census + reported stats) to give some perspective. The Off Track video is one ex.