Janine’s blog

Howard Rheingold is one of the original users of the term “online community” from way back. He is currently lecturing at Stanford University offering a course on Digital Journalism. The course outline is available and includes extensive references and readings. Assignments for students include writing their own blog, contributing to wikipedia. The course begins with the topic When old journalism met new media and goes on to include The Emergence of Collaborative Citizen Journalism, Social Software and We Media, Reputation Economies and Information Networks,  Code as Law, Architecture as Politics, What is journalism for, now?