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Crowd Sourcing: News media’s changing Relationship with Audiences
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Brief overview of crowd-sourcing
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Crowd Sourcing:
News media’s changing Relationship with
Audiences
Reasons for Changes
• Technological: networked comm enabled by internet and comm devices
• Social/Cultural: de-professionalization, some claim flattening hierarchies
• Economic: Funding models for news collapsing
Origins of Term
• Jeff Howe, Wired, 2006
Wisdom of CrowdsJames Surowiecki
• Individuals operating independently of each other will collectively make better decisions than experts
Examples
Crowd Funding
• Audience pays for news to get reported
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