tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-394751201869491915.post4594466794718613495..comments2023-09-12T01:00:54.512-07:00Comments on New Media Narratives : Trying to understand the appeal of Pinterest Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-394751201869491915.post-58808236141588766322016-02-13T20:13:55.843-08:002016-02-13T20:13:55.843-08:00Ah Cara, this is a personal argument for me! Not t...Ah Cara, this is a personal argument for me! Not the print book vs e-book as I don't think they are a dichotomy but rather two different kinds of things that require different mind-sets. I like both, at different times and for different purposes. But, my anguish with the word curate and it's (my opinion), misuse. That element of care, as Raquel and I have noted at length, must be apparent but whether the care taken by a five year old is any less important than that of an educated adult...that is where I'd talk about something akin to information literacy. Yes, there is lots of information on the internet (as your hilarious fire-hydrant photo jokes) but, is all that information pertinent to me? Viable to my search? Reputable to me and my research? Hrm. I wouldn't necessarily use the pinboard by the five year old (unless my research concerns that age group etc)...so I think the clarifying idea is of literacy. Those citizen journalists, that Jennifer mentions, were/are they literate in journalism? Do they strive for objectivity etc? Probably not, it is more of a personal reaction and in-the-moment capturing rather than a deciphering, analysing and (attempting to be) objective re-telling. It is not a profession for the former.<br /><br />Thanks so much for adding your pinboard and your comments. It is great to see the many sides to this discussion. :)Dr. Jessica Laccettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12820510348273741004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-394751201869491915.post-78381548274109451742016-02-13T16:30:45.591-08:002016-02-13T16:30:45.591-08:00Cara I really loved your pintrest board. It is a r...Cara I really loved your pintrest board. It is a really great way to get into the debate and it was very visually appealing. <br /><br />I feel the same way you do about the curation debate and your blog post made me think of when I was working on a Web 2.0 pilot for what we called "Citizen Journalism" then. Because "real" journalists at my organization wanted there to be a differentiation from what we do, that we've trained to do, and what "regular" people were doing by contributing to our website. So we gave it a second-tier name. <br /><br />Like curation, I wonder where the line is for journalism. At the time, the Taser death of Robert Dziekanski was a big deal, and the story from the police changed when the video surfaced, taken by "regular" person Paul Pritchard. Was he a citizen journalist? Or a journalist? Or a person with a video camera? I wonder does it take a reputation or mainstream organization to give a regular person credibility as a journalist? It's not a profession like doctors or lawyers, so where is the line? Like curation, is it to add context? Or do something for others to more easily understand information? If getting dressed in the morning is curation, is gossip journalism? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com