"We the Media" Goodreads Review

I finished up Dan Gillmor's "We the Media" and I was really interested in some of the things that he had to say and the way that he constructed the current state of journalism.

I gave this book four stars out of five. Here is what I wrote about it on Goodreads.

I don't think that Dan Gillmor was the first one to propose the idea that modern technology is evolving the ways that we produce and consume news, but he traced it and explained it in a way that was highly effective and very informative. As a student who is about to graduate and who is thinking of a career in media, it was fascinating to hear his take on the current status of journalism. This set the stage for how media was changing now, and what that means for the general population.

Gillmor feels very hopeful about the ways that journalism is changing, and and I feel the same way. I really liked in this introduction when he said, "The rise of citizen journalists will help us listen. The ability of anyone to make the news will give new voice to people who've felt voiceless--and whose words we need to hear. They are showing all of us--citizen, journalist, newsmaker--new ways of talking, of learning." He clearly shows his reader that these changes are not only important to the ones making the news, but to everyday citizens too who may not have even taken note of the great changes, improvements, and of course some set backs that have occurred in the past years. The biggest problem that I had with this book is that in many ways it is already outdated. Technology changes so fast that it is difficult for a book to be current on everything for more than a couple years. I would be very interested to see Gillmor's opinions on how social medias, especially Twitter, are effecting the current state of journalism.


I've been following Dan Gillmor on Twitter to see if he has brought up any ideas from his book, but updated for everything that has happened with technology since its publication, but haven't seen him circiling back to this idea in recent posts. I am sure that he has through and am really interested in doing some searching around to see what he and other people in the technology and journalism fields are saying about this now.