Week 12-Global Voices…
Global Voices, a non-profit citizen media project blog worth looking at, focuses on global conversation covering the people and places the media ignore.
In an attempt to take some sort of control of the ‘blogosphere’ and with an international team of authors, regional-blog editors and translators Global Voices aims towards helping people navigate through the abundance of blogs and information they provide.
By utilising various forms of media the site offers a place where citizen’s voices can be heard and considered, calls attention to the important issues concerning citizens and advocates freedom of expression all over the world.
A recent example of a blog on Global Voices is USA: Homeland Guantanamo by Solana Larsen. The post covers a interactive on-line game produced by the human rights organisation, Breakthrough. The article explains the game and how it will effect people’s perceptions of detention centres.
This blog has articles that are relative to citizens covering a wide variety of topics ranging from politics to foreign news and special coverage. Interview with a blogger for Global Voices
In comparison to our mainstream news we experience, these blogs invite us into a more personal representation making the news easy to relate to.
Covering countries all over the world, Global Voices allows you to, by following a link, tap into your own countries blogs relating to current news and events.
Each blog opening up the forum for discussion goes toward an increasingly positive on-line citizen community building communication all over the world and supporting multi-media journalism.
A video link to Global Voices, regarding mobile journalism and web blogging: MobileActive08: Mobiles and Citizen Media
