Hello all, I am actively looking for feedback on a document I'm trying to finish by Christmas. The document is entitled the "Global Journalism Manifesto (Beta)" and various formats of it can be found at the following locations... http://www.gonzopj.net/global http://www.gonzopj.net/global/global.pdf http://www.gonzopj.net/global/manifesto.jpg http://www.gonzopj.net/global/manifesto.png It's a pretty quick read at just over 500 words. Please feel free and encouraged to print it out, post it anywhere, or share it with others. Any comments, criticisms, or curses are deeply appreciated and I will do my best to respond to any questions as quickly as my chaotically busy schedule allows. I can be emailed at binjiminyin@gmail.com for anyone who would prefer to send their feedback privately. At the time of this writing it is currently published in it's 6th revision. Most of the prior revisions have been very slight but the 7th revision will ultimately be the finished draft. Any changes thereafter, if any, will appear as amendments after the body of the document. Suffice to say, I want the 7th revision to be perfect and it will most likely be considerably different than the current beta draft. The piece began last year as the unfinished Gonzo PhotoJournalism Collective Manifesto for which the most significant version can be read here: http://www.gonzopj.net/v089.html The original version is more technical and geometric than anything else, whereas the current draft is more philosophical and organic. They are completely different. Ideally, I'd like to publish the finished document by this Christmas which marks the 1 year anniversary of the original GPC manifesto's publication. That gives me just over a solid month to integrate any feedback I hope to accrue from others into the finished draft. I want it to be written for the world and by the world instead of it just being written for and by the Gonzo PhotoJournalism Collective. To some degree, this beta manifesto represents a poetic shortform version of a long argumentative essay I've been writing entitled, "Reforming Journalism for a Global Era" which represents over 3 years of personal research I have conducted on multimedia and global journalism. I intend to have the paper published as an article once completed and I will most likely publish it here on Lightstalkers as well. To give a bit more depth to the message of the piece, I would like to refer those interested to a couple of projects sponsored by MIT... The One Laptop Per Child project ( http://www.laptop.org ) has been developing a near $100 laptop that is hand-powered and wi-fi enabled. These laptops are hoped to be mass-distributed and are partly intended to serve as educational supplements to children in underdeveloped "third-world" countries where access to adequate education is very scarce or limited. As the old saying goes, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Obviously there are very serious social and economic implications surrounding an initiative like this, a couple examples being the destruction of culture or protecting these children from online predators and adult or antisocial material. Additionally, MIT's OpenCourseWare ( http://ocw.mit.edu/ ) makes all of MIT's web courses freely available to the global public albeit without accreditation to those who do not or cannot afford to pay the MIT tuition. Moreover, viewer statistics, ratings, comments, and voting systems implemented into web programs like Youtube or Google Video represent what I believe to be a prototype model for the future of things like journalism competitions or even democratic government. I touch base more on topics like these in the essay I'm currently writing. One reoccurring misconception surrounding the manifesto is that it is athiestic because it states that "there is no room for superstition in journalism." While I personally am agnostic, I firmly believe that the role of journalism should not be that of a religious propaganda machine. Not to mention that religiously or even nationalistically motivated "journalism" will never hold up to any kind of global scrutiny. Again, any kind of feedback is deeply appreciated. Thank you for your time, Patrick Yen 23 2006-11-21T13:49:45Z 0 2008-03-12T12:55:12Z false 9831 false 4806 2006-12-26T01:27:00Z true false global_journalism_manifesto__beta 1 2008-03-12T12:55:12Z 4806