This document makes a case for increased participation in media. It discusses how technology has led to universal authorship and the rise of citizen journalism. It highlights several examples of grassroots organizations and activists using digital tools to give voice to marginalized groups and drive positive change. The document argues that as more people participate in content creation and distribution, the role of traditional media must adapt to better serve communities.

1. A Case for
Participation
http://proyecto-ceibal.blogspot.com/

2. Journalism - b. 1665
London Gazette

3. The Rise of the Fourth
Estate: How Newspapers
Became Informative and
Why it Mattered
Matthew Gentzkow, Edward Glaeser, and Claudia Goldin
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/matthew.gentzkow/research/FourthEstate.pdf

4. Wood Pulp

5. Technology Does Matter

6. Approaching
Universal
Authorship

7. The Twitter Press
One in five internet users update their status

8. Universal Authorship
Denis G. Pelli and Charles Bigelow

9. What is the role of the
media if everyone is part
of the production process?

10. People at the center of media
Jessica Clark of the Center for Social Media

11. A decline in the demos?
Like, seriously?

16. A Case for Participation

17. Onbehalfism
http://www.miafarrow.org/

18. HUMAN RIGHTS
POVERTY PORN

19. Pavel Kutsev, Substitution Therapy Activist

20. Drop-In Center, Ukraine
http://depo3p.livejournal.com/

21. http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/projects/dropin-center/

22. HiperBarrio
http://hiperbarrio.org

23. http://hiperbarrio.org

24. Foko
Madagascar
http://club.foko-madagascar.org

26. http://ceasefireliberia.com/

27. ★ activists not victims
★ rescue cultural history
★ re-define communities
★ new public spheres
★ prepare for crises
★ issue-based networks

28. The Walls Between Us

29. ★ censorship
★ language
★ access
★ platform
★ skills
★ attention/popularity
★ media literacy