Citizen Media | david sasaki

Mobile Active 08: 6.5 Billion Text Messages Don't Make World Peace

by David Sasaki | Oct 18, 2008 | English

After the twenty-hour three-leg flight from Monrovia to Accra to Nairobi to Johannesburg, I arrived smelling like an aborted hippo fetus and with a healthy serving of skepticism about the conference format for Mobile Active 08, the third annual international gathering...

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...

Fire Eagle and the Future of Citizen Media

by David Sasaki | Apr 7, 2008 | English

Originally published on Idea Lab. Buenos Aires Leads the Way Two months ago I was back in my old stomping grounds, Encinitas, California. It had been several years since I last coasted along Highway 101 as it sucks in its asphalt belly between San Elijo Lagoon and the...

[Work] An Update

by David Sasaki | Feb 19, 2008 | English

More than a few of my friends have told me that they have no idea what I do for work anymore. “Wait, so you don’t translate things from Spanish to English anymore?” is how most of them put it. So, I think I need to be more clear and more repetitive....

[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.

[Review] The First Six Months of Rising Voices

by David Sasaki | Dec 27, 2007 | English, Rising Voices

Cross-posted on Rising Voices and Global Voices. As we all get ready to enter 2008, Rising Voices celebrates its first six months of existence. Thanks to the generous support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Rising Voices has been able to distribute...

Engage, Ignore, Suppress: How Governments Respond to Citizen Media

by David Sasaki | Oct 9, 2007 | English

I am grateful to Malaysian blogging pioneer Jeff Ooi and all the members of the ALL-BLOGS alliance for inviting me to speak in Kuala Lumpur about how various governments worldwide have responded to the opportunities and challenges posed by the rise of citizen media...

Rising Voices, Helping the Global Population Take Part in the Global Conversation

by David Sasaki | May 23, 2007 | English

Cross-posted at Global Voices. Thanks to the generous support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Global Voices is now starting a new outreach project, Rising Voices, which aims to spread the benefits of citizen media to regions, languages, and communities...