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Jay’s lessons on news “crowdsourcing”

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

I’ve been meaning to get to this for days now, but I wanted to post about Jay Rosen’s lessons from Assignment Zero, the “crowdsourcing” journalism experiment he put together between his NewAssignment project and Wired magazine, with help from a t ... Continue reading »

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  • This is really interesting and seems to point out that such efforts need to be managed. Is anyone surprised at that? It also reminds me of what happens whenever a volunteer effort among geographically distributed individuals needs to be coordinated. Usually a small core of individuals emerges who take it upon themselves to shoulder the burden of leadership and coordination. With today's systems, though, the numbers of people and decisions can be increased by orders of magntude, and this increases the likleihood of people veering off in the wrong direction; this in turn increases the need for oversight and management.

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