{"id":162,"date":"2005-05-04T10:54:18","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T10:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2005-05-04T10:54:18","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T10:54:18","slug":"your_news_your_pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/04\/your_news_your_pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"your news, your pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"laun.jpg\" img style=\"margin:10px;\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/laun.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" align=\"right\"\/> &#8220;If you find yourself in the right place at the right time, if an event is unfolding before your eyes and you capture it on a camera or mobile phone, either as a photograph or video, then please send it to BBC News.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/default.stm\">BBC<\/a> has just made a <a href=\"http:\/\/newswww.bbc.net.uk\/1\/hi\/talking_point\/2780295.stm\">bold move<\/a> into user-generated, or rather user-augmented, news. If anyone thinks that a community-built media is only being explored on a smaller, local scale (see <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/a_new_kind_of_n.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/hub_media.html\">here<\/a>), then think again. The world is in a frenzied state of self-documentation &#8211; laying down a vast mosaic of images, video, graphics and text on top of every inch of reality. If the mainstream media is to keep up, it will have to a certain extent &#8220;employ&#8221; everyone as stringers. To put a slight spin on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/\">Shirky<\/a>&#8216;s formulation: <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/the_only_group_1.html\">the only group that can <i>record<\/i> everything is everybody<\/a>.<br \/>\n(image: Andrew Vorobyov&#8217;s photo of the &#8220;orange revolution&#8221; in Ukraine)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you find yourself in the right place at the right time, if an event is unfolding before your eyes and you capture it on a camera or mobile phone, either as a photograph or video, then please send it to BBC News.&#8221; The BBC has just made a bold move into user-generated, or rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing-broadcast-and-the-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}