2005 - Year of the Digital Citizen

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by mtippett | January 3, 2006 at 09:51 am
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The BBC is calling 2005 the Year of the Digital Citizen. I agree.

In the last 18 months we have seen tectonic shifts in the media landscape. More power is in the hands of the ‘former audience’ than ever before. News is being reported by people on the scene. The definitions of our language are being supplied by readers and the way we contextualize this information is being reviewed by an army of bloggers and citizen pundits.

The implications of this are enormous. We are, after all, talking about how we create knowledge. News and media reports are the creation of history in real time.

By changing the way we create knowledge we determine what we know. Of course knowledge is the basis for all decision making - we will make different choices depending on what we know. So by blogging, using mobile technology and broadcasting from a laptop we are not only changing the headlines but are potentially altering human history.

This story features some of the photos and videos that played a part in the citizen media movement over the last year and a half. If you’ve got others you think need to be added please put them in the story. We are - after all - making history.

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bicyclette
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at 11:02 on December 21st, 2006

Don't you mean 2006?

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