Introduction

Ivo BurumStephen Quinn

This book introduces a set of multimedia skills and digital tools designed to make citizens, communications students and professional journalists more ready for a convergent change process that's taking place in society. It defines and develops the concept of user-generated stories (UGS), a more complete form of multimedia storytelling created by mobile journalists, henceforth known as "mojos."

Knowledge is freedom. In respect of press freedom we highlight Kovack and Rosenthal's belief that "Civilization has produced one idea more powerful than any other — the notion that people can govern themselves, and it has created a largely unarticulated theory of information to sustain that idea, called journalism" (2007: ...

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