By Alette Schoon, TV journalism lecturer at Rhodes University If your phone has a video camera, you are ready to become a video journalist. It’s really not that difficult. The most important first step, is to decide what to shoot. You need to consider the media audience. On our continent bandwidth is scarce, so think [...]
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The theme of our 5th DCI is ‘Africa’s Underdevelopment: Digital Citizens Talk Back’, and aims to closely look at how the development story is being told by digital citizens. Citizen journalists have become central to exposing the ‘development of underdevelopment’ in many African countries, often giving a voice to communities that would otherwise not be [...]
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Concept document for the Digital Citizens Indaba 2010 Theme: Africa’s Underdevelopment: Digital Citizens Talk Back Date: 7 July 2010 Venue: Eden Grove Complex, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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