"Este trabajo está basado en un sondeo online diseñado por Guillermo Franco con el apoyo de Diego Fajardo, realizado entre el 5 de junio y el 20 julio de 2009, en el que participaron 588 personas de la región, que representaban medios tradicionales, blogs en plataformas públicas, medios online,
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sitios gubernamentales, empresariales, universitarios o vinculados a organizaciones sociales o centros de investigación. Entre las principales conclusiones que arrojó este estudio se encuentran que “para los creadores de contenidos web en América Latina, la mayor necesidad en términos de formación es aprender a contar historias en video y otras formas complejas. Aunque identifican como su mayor problema la generación de ingresos para financiar el sitio o medio en internet, paradójicamente tienen muchísimo menor interés en aprender sobre modelos de negocios o venta de publicidad”. Además, los resultados del sondeo se presentan discriminados por país o región; por tipo de sitio; por origen; por filiación del sitio y por tamaño de la operación. Incluye también un inventario muy parcial de la oferta de capacitación online disponible y una reflexión final acerca de las implicaciones de los resultados de la investigación." (Introducción)
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"Breaking news überwinden dank Internet und Satellitenfernsehen in Sekundenschnelle Kontinente und Staatsgrenzen. Alles wird global verbreitet und kann in Blogs und Internetforen von jeder und jedem kommentiert werden. Längst nutzen auch totalitäre Staaten und global agierende Terroristen Medien
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und das Internet. Vielerorts besteht der einzige Zugang zu ungefilterten Informationen noch immer über Kurzwellenempfang von Auslandssendern. Die internationalen Sender verstärken ihre Internetpräsenz." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Chapter 1 sets the scene for this book, looking in a broad-brush way at how the Internet and related technologies have changed journalism and media. It notes how audiences are fragmenting in an environment of excess information, and considers the boom in online advertising relative to mainstream me
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dia revenues. It also discusses the way that the Internet threatens traditional commercial media business models. All of the chapters that follow are more hands-on and specific. Chapter 2 shows how to use various parts of the Internet such as the UseNet and listservs to generate story ideas that are beyond the often PR-generated news agenda, and how to find experts to interview for those stories. Chapter 3 does the same with blogs and related new media such as moblogs and podcasts. Chapter 4 considers the issue of citizen or participatory journalism and discusses how this phenomenon, often called audience-generated content, relates to newsgathering and the future of journalism. Chapter 5 looks beyond the usual suspects such as Google and offers ways to use the Internet technologies to find background information for stories. Chapter 6 works from the premise that the multimedia reporter will need to adopt different information-gathering processes compared with the mono-media reporter, and shows how to do that. Chapter 7 looks at how to assess the quality and veracity of information we find on the Internet. Technologies give us access to a vast amount of data, but how reliable and accurate are those data? Chapter 8 shows how to develop a beat using the Internet. It offers strategies for developing an area of expertise. Chapter 9 reflects the generosity of journalists on the Internet. It introduces the vast array of resources that reporters have made available for their colleagues around the world. Chapter 10 considers the legal implications of gathering information online and reporting news on the web. Chapter 11 shows how to do deeper forms of journalism using the Excel spread sheet and drawing on the wide range of statistics available on the Internet." (Pages xi-xii)
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"Discussions on how to support sustainability of independent media generally focus on the political conditions, the legal framework and – especially in German development cooperation – on the quality of journalistic coverage. Nevertheless, economic factors are of equal importance, not only for p
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ure survival but also with respect to editorial independence and the resources available to enhance or guarantee the quality of media outlets. The German Forum Medien und Entwicklung (Media and Development) highlighted in its annual international Symposium, “Money Matters – How independent media manage to survive”, two dimensions marking economic sustainability: factors constituting a restricting or enabling media environment; factors supporting the business management of media in their endeavour to become self-sustainable." (Executive summary, page 5)
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"Das Internet besitzt das Potenzial, neue Formen von gesellschaftlicher Vernetzung und Kommunikation hervorzubringen und trägt damit wesentlich zur Ausgestaltung sozialer und politischer Systeme bei. Auch in Iran hat sich das Internet trotz infrastruktureller Schwierigkeiten und staatlicher Zensurm
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aßnahmen zu einem wichtigen Medium für bestimmte gesellschaftliche Bereiche entwickelt. Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt unter Berücksichtigung des politischen Systems, der Infrastruktur sowie der gesetzlichen Vorschriften, welchen politischen und sozialen Wandel das Internet in der iranischen Gesellschaft angestoßen hat." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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