Brief overview of crowd-sourcing

1. News media’s changing
Relationship with
Audiences

2. 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

3. Origins of Term
• Jeff Howe, Wired, 2006

4. Wisdom of Crowds
James Surowiecki
• Individuals operating independently of each
other will collectively make better decisions
than experts

7. Examples

12. Crowd Funding
• Audience pays for news to get reported

15. Meaning?