Internet-Manifesto - 0 views
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being cured of its gatekeeping function
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If only. There is a great deal of gatekeeping on the web, which has not changed human nature or undermined all forms of accumulation of authority. There is more openness and the possibility of even more, but this has to be won and organised and then protected.
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journalistic quality
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Statement of high purpose. Shared by all media? Or are we all journalists now? Since the Internet doesn't itself lead to quality, outside social structures are needed.
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The Internet is our society is the Internet
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embrace their forms of communication
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So the media will have to move from delivery to engagement. The challenge is then to say how a media engagement differs from any other.
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blocking access
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Interesting that a right to free speech has become a right to free hearing.
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inadequate technology
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every citizen can
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This seems pious. What are figures? Have we not now just got different aggregators?
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social-educational role
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It has others, surely, that need to be recognised: entertainment, for example.
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boost the findability of outstanding content
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The people using the tools may do this, not the tools themselves. I'm not sure this is yet right for a manifesto: needs to be turned into a commitment or policy.
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from traditional media to the Internet
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Hol on! Since when was geuine political discussion found on the traditional media. Be careful of inter-everything here. The main location of genuineplitical discussion is between human beings who are meeting each other. It still is. the internet can hugely assist and reinforce human interaction. It should not seek to subsitutute itself for what is, indeed, life itself.
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thrives on
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freedom of information.
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active participation of the public
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Not all political discourse goes on in public. There's a risk that journalism (=journalists?) ends up thinking it owns politics. (And often vice versa too). Is activism the test of a healthy politics?
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freedom of the press must hold for anyone
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Yes - with big implications for public freedom in general. The privileges of the press are available to all. So what happens to e.g. press accreditation?
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Tradition is not a business model
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I don't understand this one at all - either relevance or consistency with #10. Can someone help?
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I think it is a strong thesis telling vested media interests and governments not to try and protect existing media businesses which until now have attacked state intervention anyway!
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Copyright is a cornerstone of information organization
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Surely this is untrue. (C) is mostly about exploitation, not organisation.
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Ownership entails obligations
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building an archive of contemporary history
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V. interesting implications e.g. for search. For an org like oD, establishing the direction of an argument, how ideas have developed, would be fascinating - much more than a list of who said what when.
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correct them in a transparent manner
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Sure, but this is about credibility. I'm uncomfortable with the background paternalism here.
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will gain
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appraising the credibility of a source, tracking news back to its original source, researching it, checking it and assessing it—
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Which is what a good journalist does, so are we back to "We're all journalists now?"
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