South Africa’s smallest businesses are punching above their weight when it comes to job creation – but the system is still actively working against…
Why can’t we all just get along?
The media world is undergoing profound change. We know the great catalyst for these changes has been the onward march of the digital age and the arrival of the internet.
This changing mediascape is often incorrectly portrayed as a battlefield, with two main skirmishes on the go. In the first “battle”, the soldiers have grown weary or just rather bored. This battle involves traditional media (newspapers, radio, TV) versus online media. The second “battle” is a much more interesting to look at. This skirmish involves mainstream media (which in this instance includes online publishers as they mostly practise traditional journalism) versus citizen media, which includes bloggers, vloggers and podcasters….
Online media – growing pains
I did a PDF of my powerpoint presentation (3mbs) at the recent Captivate Student Media conference that I popped down to Grahamstown for on…
50m bloggers, 6bn people — but who gets to speak?
Ethan Zuckerman, the founder of Tripod and activist site Global Voices Online, emphasised just how difficult it is to get news about Africa, especially…
Online is no ‘threat’
It’s time to leave the dark ages. The traditional advertising and media industry needs to see the potential of online or get left behind….
