European Media Culture: New Media in Europe

Course: European Media Culture
Unit: New Media in Europe
Instructor: José Luis Orihuela
Plan: Calendar

Online references and recommended readings

European Information Society: Scenarios, issues and policies

EC Directorate General: Information Society and Media
EC Thematic Portal: Europe’s Information Society
EC Action Plans: i2010 (2005/10) and Media Programme (2007/13)

The new vs. old media debate: Changing paradigms and new players

10 principles of the new media scenario
European Media Landscape

Social and participatory media: When audiences become content producers

Dan Gillmor: We the Media
Chris Willis and Shayne Bowman: We Media
Videos: EPIC 2014 – Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us – Introducing the book – Because of YouTube
Tools: Facebook badge

The European contribution to the Internet: From the Word Wide Web to Quaero and Europeana

A Little History of the World Wide Web
Europeana: European Babel Takes on Google Empire

European and global blogosphere: State of the art of an ongoing revolution

The European Blogosphere Wiki
Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008
Best Weblogs About Media and Journalism

Readings

European Commission: Towards a knowledge-based Europe. The European Union and the information society (October, 2002).

Nieman Reports: Goodbye Gutenberg (Winter, 2006)

Orihuela, José Luis: Blogging and the eCommunication Paradigms: 10 principles of the new media scenario (May, 2003).

European Resources for Journalists

European Journalism Centre
EC Audiovisual Service
eu4journalists
EU Press Room
Journalists @ Your Service
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