Abby Martin of Media Roots on Citizen Journalism at SFSU Media Literacy Event

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1. Great education to enforce. Citicen-journalism needs a more non-loud side-kick. In the sense of clear and enabling the non stigmatised non-loud but clear voice which opens the door to the rational not backfired group. Things are outragious – but the antiwar-loud-part does not really encourage or enable the middle-left-progressive CITIZEN journalist. Means the user group of citizens are lost by the gate those create without knowing it who are loud and angry. 

   And it is a goal conflict, the right and NEED TO BE LOAD is one of many aspects to understand use-cases and user szenarios. But well – to selve the dilemma that there is a nealry everywhere easily propping up battle by power structures against people beeing media-content-producers which needs to be countered. 

   Normally things should have developed out of itself and it should be YouTube pushing this enablement of everyone beeing content producer and by that enlarging their market place where they can place ads so it makes sense for them to widen the content base – but reality is, content mafia is too influential and usability not very strong at Google. Means if platforms do no logical and user interface based enablement you do not get content working if not loud or viral or manipulative and so different tools or platforms would be good, which lack range and networks. Even facebook is not providing the enablement inside the user interface logic. 

   So to overcome this people need to develope other ways. As for sure everone can be out of themself somehow journalism: Pictures created and texts posted, episodes of content shared and so on. But this normally lacks personal involvement and style in ongoing NATURAL SELF INVOLVEMENT as it is than too simple – people do not build themselves up by sharing, celebrating brilliant people like you and than – you and others need to take care about that.

   Encourage people to

   1.) translate and comment and discuss own content in OWN VIDEOS (people say or remind oftenly but no easy concrete way to the user – who is lazy, tired, disabled or fought back many times themselve

   2.) crucial is the idea of enabling the imperfect – involving them or make them involve train others in a different way – widening the ways …. why do people not write, think and get involved? taking the barriers away – which need definition and time to be broken …. the possibility of everyone is there to work on content …. why do people not want to be associated or what disables them? they stutter? can not read? think or when starting they look to you and think – they are not worhty or is it shame? adoration of brilliance? the experience of denial and losing friends over fighting evil? the heart of the fighter or polarisiation? lack of knwoledge and so on ….. so i do walkthroughs, and even if it really is not so much viral it anables other groups to o the same …. takes much more time than the professional network build up but is also needed

   3. …. how can people express themselves in videos? when they do fear to be camera shown or fear the matrix or future restrictions? logical normally understood dilemmas which need simply and ground working explainations or reminders, examples and also ….

   4. … much more general abstracted discussions, how people can become content or create it …. content in various loudness degrees and not only the investigative protest direction ….. commenting, thinking aloud and so on … the front people miss that many times as they want the change faster and as they see the negative impact of relativation in other forms which is a danger and real ….

   Whatshowever …. ongoing from that

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