Today while reviewing my Tweets and Facebook newsfeed, I came across this video posted to the Facebook profile of a friend. It is a video created by The Guardian, an advertisement for the media companies approach to open journalism. Open journalism describes a form of innovative publishing wherein the new story is a collaboration of digital and Internet-based content and sources, not necessarily from a professional journalist. It is a term akin to citizen or participatory journalism.
The advertisement provides an example of how open journalism with and through digital social technologies could cocreate a news story about The Three Little Pigs, a fairytale first printed in the 1880′s. This is a story many of us maybe familiar with, where the three little pigs act to defend their home from a big bad wolf intruding into their personal social space. » Read more: Who is the Big Bad Wolf in Open Journalism?
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