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Jean K. Min presentation to the 'Non-Western Persepctives' section of the Culturemondo. Roundtable on Monday 10th December 2008.
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OhmyNews was founded on the premise of “Citizen Reporters”
“Every citizen's a reporter. Journalists aren't some exotic species, they're everyone who seeks to take new developments, put them into writing, and share them with others.”
– Oh Yeon Ho, founder and CEO of OhmyNews
Number of Citizen Reporters exploded from 727 to 60,000+
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OhmyNews Editorial Process
Citizen Reporters(60,000+)
Staff Reporters
(54)
Essays & ColumnsFilm & Book ReviewsMedia Criticism
Screening by News GuerillaDesk
Hard News AnalysisColumns & Editorials
Screening by Editorial Desk
PublicationPublication
CitizenJournalism
Do It Yourself Journalism
6 billion people as Advertisers
Audience as Content
Education and Training
CJ as People’s Ad Agency
Potential business models for citizen media or UGC
A long tail economy? U
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Items
Misses
Hits
Tale of Two Internet News Media
Content
Reader participation
Use of technology
Updates
Attitude
News consumption
Use Web as…
Quality news, analysis, editorials and op-eds
Limited feedback to the editor via “Readers’ Opinion”
Web as a carrier of print news to cyber space
New York Times Digital
10~15 times per day
Modernistic elite media
I produce.
You consume and leave.
a pipe for news delivery
Focused news on politics and social issues by staff reporters
Essay style reports by citizen reporters
Write as a citizen reporter, post your comments or give money to reporters
HTML, Web-radio, Web-TV, Mobile news and Weekly print edition
OhmyNews
As many as necessary; 24 times per day in case of live text casting
Post-modernistic “We” media
We produce.
We consume and stay.
a playground for readers
Stumbling int’l web brands in Korea -- Can a home-grown web platform transcend cultural barrier?
Struggling Korean web brands in the global market – Can a home-grown web platform transcend cultural barrier?
MY BIG QUESTION: Every web service is uniquely home-grown and reflects
its cultural idiosyncrasy. Then how can a web platform overcome cultural barriers and be transplanted to other cultures? If it can succeed in doing so, what would be the transcendent element that would have an universal appeal across different social and cultural context?
