Herman and Chomsky thought that government and corporate bureaucracies subsidized the media by supplying news, as it was rather expensive to have correspondents everywhere. And they were right. But now it costs almost nothing to get evidence from wherever you… Read More ›
Guerilla journalism
Does the internet bring nationalism back?
When media shift from broadcasting to engagement, other countries may have their own Trump and Brexit waiting ahead. Douglas Rushkoff published a great article The New Nationalism Of Brexit And Trump Is A Product Of The Digital Age. “TV… Read More ›
Three threats to journalism
Read the full article Classical journalism is being forced out by: – Guerrilla Journalism, driven by the Viral Editor; – Brand Journalism, driven by content marketing; – Robot Journalism, driven by news algorithms; The third threat, Robot Journalism, poses the… Read More ›
10,5 prompts on how (and why) to use listicles for your blog
“Listicle” comes from “list + article” A listicle is a short article written in the form of a list. You have most likely seen them with titles like “10 Amazing Facts About Spider-Man” or “7 Of The Oldest Pieces Of… Read More ›
“Human as media. The emancipation of authorship” is available on Amazon
“Over 6,000 years of literary civilisation, there have been perhaps 300 million authors: people capable of communicating their opinion beyond their own physical circles. Now, thanks to the Internet, in the historical blink of an eye, the number of authors… Read More ›
The Viral Editor as a distributed being of the Internet. The Manifesto of the Viral Editor
The first “Artificial Intelligence” has emerged in the technological world, made up of real people: the Viral Editor of the Internet. It is currently building a new social reality, creating an alternative form of guerrilla journalism and begetting a new… Read More ›
The Emancipation of Authorship. This picture explains everything
Free content, the crisis of media, guerilla journalism, death of newspapers, content marketing, Arab Spring, social media boom, the Viral Editor, civic journalism, the end of the Gutenberg era, the shortening of the length of reading, the debates on the… Read More ›