Citizen Media Watch » future http://citizenmediawatch.com Keeping an eye on Tom, Dick and Harry being very creative Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:13:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Twitter as news source, and the unthinkable http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2009/03/14/twitter-as-news-source-and-the-unthinkable/ http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2009/03/14/twitter-as-news-source-and-the-unthinkable/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:58:55 +0000 Lotta Holmström http://citizenmediawatch.com/?p=788 Twitter is becoming the one stop place for relevant reading these days, especially since I’m way behind with my Google Reader feeds. Today’s most retweeted post, and a required read, must be Clay Shirky’s long and insightful look at past media revolutions and the one we’re going through right now, Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable.
There’s also a thought-provoking follow-up from Cathy Davidson, asking:

So for the sake of argument, let’s reverse the question: is there something to be gained by the end of newspapers as we know them in this historical moment?

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