Citizen Media | david sasaki

Citizen Journalism and Drug Trafficking in Mexico

by David Sasaki | Sep 20, 2010 | English

My feelings about the coverage of organized crime, drug trafficking, and violence in Mexico are many, and they are complicated. I am disappointed by the focus on violence — rather than the causes of that violence — by the Mexican media. But I am far more bothered by...

The Pacification of Rio’s Favelas

by David Sasaki | May 15, 2010 | English

Weekends like this. Locked up in my room, or in various cafes, with a constant intake of caffeine to keep my fingers tapping on the keyboard to the rhythm from my tinny laptop speakers. Right now: J-Live. Yesterday I worked about 12 hours on a single post, a general...

Desde Bogotá

by David Sasaki | May 11, 2010 | English

Often times I work myself harder than my body is able to support, but this past month has been especially rough. And now I’m paying the price. I arrived to Bogotá yesterday morning with deep purple bags under my eyes, a sore throat, and about enough energy to...

Global Voices Summit 2010

by David Sasaki | Mar 30, 2010 | English

This year’s 2010 Global Voices Summit will take place on May 6 and 7 in Santiago, Chile. If you would like to attend you can register here. Solana, Georgia, Ivan and I have been so busy working on the fundraising, agenda, and logistics that we haven’t done...

[Translation] Global Voices' Project Lingua: A complementary and alternative perspective to traditional media

by David Sasaki | Aug 24, 2009 | English, Translations

The following is my translation of Paula Gonzalo’s interview with Juan Arellano about the Lingua Project on Global Voices. Links have been changed to their English-language equivalents when possible. Juan Arellano is one of the bloggers who, beginning in 2007,...

A critique of Global Voices

by David Sasaki | Jul 9, 2008 | English, Global Voices, Globalization, Rising Voices

It’s not very hard to convince people – friends, family, strangers – that Global Voices is amazing and deserving of their support. In fact, not once have I described what I do for a living to anyone and heard the reaction, ‘well, that sounds...

Prison Diaries: Prisoners use blogs as a start to social reform

by David Sasaki | May 13, 2008 | English

Sometimes I feel like there are more websites dedicated to documenting citizen journalism than actual citizen journalism initiatives. Among them: J-Lab, Idea Lab, Media Shift, Press Think, MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media, Contentious, Online Journalism...

[Local] EveryBlock

by David Sasaki | Jan 24, 2008 | English

I’ve got a billion things to do before giving a workshop on digital photography and Flickr this evening at the Biblioteca Publica Piloto (come by if you’re around!), but this is way too cool to not comment on. So, Dunstan Orchard, an avid Faceballer...

[Document] An Introductory Guide to Global Citizen Media

by David Sasaki | Jan 16, 2008 | English, Rising Voices

Rising Voices proudly announces the first in a series of outreach guides meant to explain the fundamentals of citizen media to a non-technical readership. The first guide, An Introduction to Citizen Media, offers context and case studies which show how everyday citizens across the world are increasingly using blogs, podcasts, online video, and digital photography to engage in an unmediated conversation which transcends borders, cultures, and differing languages.