Content curation: a new form of journalism? è il sottotitolo del paper che ho scritto nel corso della mia fellowship di sei mesi al Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. In esso analizzo alcune case history in cui la "curation" ha svolto un ruolo fondamentale, dal raid a Zuccotti Park per Occupy Wall Street, ai London Riots. Intro e link al paper, qui: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/news/item/article/newsroom-... Dall'intro: "Without giving up their traditional skills, journalists are becoming more and more information “managers”. They are behaving like human filters which due to the absence of boundaries (i.e. space limitations, like television's airtime or newspapers’ pages) typical of the digital world, verify and add context to what user-generated content they think to be relevant, and feed it onto Web pages or mobile applications. Thanks to the rise of new social media curation platforms, the same role can be played by independent professionals (whether journalists or amateurs), who are “independent storytellers”. They might be freelancers or amateurs, or they might be working for a news organization, although with such a level of independence and visibility to transform their job into a one-man-show. My research shows that this increased participation has both its drawbacks and opportunities. For news organisations, one of the dangers is to assume that what you find and hear on social media is the real and only “voice of the crowd”, without taking the time to analyse in more depth other possible points of view. Resources are scarce and this could be a real temptation; but not everybody is on the Internet, especially in developing countries, and even if they are, it should not be taken for granted that they are willing to testify online what's happening in their surroundings. As for independent storytellers, they could play a double role in the future: supplement, replace or somehow integrate the coverage done by mainstream media; or just take advantage of the new possibilities offered by curation tools just to transform them into propagandistic platforms. To strike a balance, to make use of user-generated content without “being used” by it, it's not an easy task”. Ciao. Grazie, Federico -- https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fellowships/journalist-fellows/jo... www.federicoguerrini.com Il mio ultimo libro: Vivere Social http://www.bol.it/libri/Vivere-social.-Manuale/Federico-Guerrini/ea978889713...