WHO IS DAN GILLMOR?By Dolvani & Sage

DAN GILLMOR

Dan Gillmor is an American technology writer and columnist.

Dan Gillmor is the director of the Knight Center for Digital

Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Walter

Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a

fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard

University. He is also known for his popular weblog covering

technology news and the Northern California technology

business sector, criticizing rigid enforcement of copyrights and

commenting on politics from a liberal perspective

BUT WHAT DOES HE HAVE TO DO WITH

“WE MEDIA?”

Dan Gillmor made an article on “We Media” talking about how technology

has changed the society of journalists. Dan said “the lives of current and

upcoming journalists have changed because of the internet. It has allowed

the public to record tragic and non-tragic events and post them online on

social media websites such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram or even

upload it onto YouTube”. Dan Gillmor said that “We Media has helped our society by giving people a voice which they did not have back when people

news reporters provided them with information but now people have their

own news and record it for themselves”.

OKAY, BUT WHAT WERE HIS VIEWS ON

“WE MEDIA?”

Dan Gilmore suggested that we as humans freeze some moments in time. Every culture has

its frozen moments, events which are so important and personal that they transcend the

normal flow of news.

Dan Gilmore also believed that we as humans had more control over how media was

distributed with the introduction of the internet then before its introduction. He believed we

will learn that we are part of something new, that readers/listeners/viewers are becoming part of the process. He also said that we take it for granted, for example his readers know

more than he does and he described this as a liberating, not threatening, fact of

journalistic life. Essentially suggesting that every reporter on every beat should embrace

this.

THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A SEC

Dan Gilmore also thought that we as journalists of media will use

the tools of grassroots journalism or be consigned to history. Our

core values, including accuracy and fairness, will remain

important, and we’ll still be gatekeepers in some ways, but our

ability to shape larger conversations and to provide context will be at least as important as our ability to gather facts and report

them accordingly.