These are the slides I used for a talk about the Internet, grassroots media and global information trends at Fudan University.

1. Public communication in the
Internet age
Rebecca MacKinnon
University of Hong Kong, Journalism & Media Studies Centre

2. “Read-only” vs. “Read-write”

3. Journalism 2.0
Journalism 1.0
Conversation
LECTURE

4. Then... Now...
High cost of Low cost of
production production
Scarcity of space, Scarcity of
airtime, etc. attention

5. My blog as simple example
Of Web 2.0

6. Writing...

7. Linking Out

16. Syndicate

17. Feeds
from
NYT

18. Content freed from container

19. Friends recommend information

20. Conversation & info-sharing

21. “Baghdad blogger” Salam Pax

22. “I try to dispel the
image that Muslims
and Arabs suffer from -
mostly by our own
doing I have to say - in
the rest of the world. I
am no missionary and
don’t want to be. I run
several internet
websites that are
geared to do just that,
create a better
understanding that
we’re not all nuts hell-
bent on world
destruction.”

26. A portrait of global media attention:
(Data from Google News, July 2006)
Countries in red have more stories
Countries in blue have fewer
(Courtesy Ethan Zuckerman at: http://
h2odev.law.harvard.edu/ezuckerman/)

27. 127 million people 130 million people
2nd largest world economy 54th largest world economy
12582 CNN.com stories 937 CNN stories
(Data courtesy Ethan Zuckerman http://ethanzuckerman.com/)

32. Mass media to
citizen media

33. Blogs are important to
foreign journalists in China
(2006 study)

34. Chinese-English
“bridge blog”

35. More “bridge blogs”