Weblogs link content.
To and about cultures, news, studies, thoughts, concepts, immediate reality, and practically all digitally inter-connected spheres. They allow glimpses into ambigious time and space coordinates, mostly personal and opinionated they speak out and invite to understand, define forms of digital being – enabling the self to re-think itself.
“This is the most exciting moment in the history of news. Anyone from anywhere can cover anything. And send it out to everyone”
– Matt Drudge in his Manifesto.
Some recent thoughts or what Torill Mortensen claims, weblogs “are changing the way we think about thinking.”
An old saying, old news is no news still holds ground, despite communication scholars concerns with a definition of news and less with the question of what is not news. A directed report about a supposed event is inherently information.
At the final presentation, most inspiring, because of my own research relevance, Odag and Schreier from the International University Bremen conducted a study on the credibility of media reports during the Iraqi War 2003.
Remember the early hype about everyone being a Net publisher and the possibility of 1001 viewpoints? Maybe that is what Gutenberg had in mind too. What online media do you consume? How many independent viewpoints do we consume?
