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June 3rd, 2006


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Journalism 3.0 in Cuba: A Utopian Wish?

A small portrait of the translator David Sasaki · 19:28 · Americas

First we must understand the significance of Periodismo 3.0 or “Journalism 3.0.” To the best of my knowledge, the popular term was first coined by Spanish blogger Juan Varela (ES) who explained in an interview last year that it “refers to the new journalism and journalist ‘that should utilize intellectual instruments, professionals, technologies, networked information, and above all else, pay attention to the interactivity and socialization of the information that comes through the new media.'” He distinguishes Journalism 3.0 and civic journalism by calling the former the perfection of tools to enable the latter. In the Spanish-speaking blogosphere the term has become as ubiquitous as “Web2.0″ amongst anglophone bloggers and has inspired websites like 3.0 (ES) in Argentina and a lively discussion (ES) among Venezuelan bloggers.

The term also recently found itself at the center of a debate about the current and future state of online journalism in Cuba. It began with a post by Spanish-Argentine Communication Professor Hugo Pardo Kuklinski entitled “Journalism 3.0 in Cuba: A Utopia,” which was then criticized by University of Havana Professor Milena Recio Silva with her guest post, “The Necessity of Not Abandoning Good Talent (Or, the Hurricane Around the Cuban Blogosphere).” Let us start with Pardo's critical skepticism.

Luego del encuentro de la Red Iberoamericana de Comunicación Digital en nuestra Universitat de Vic me queda un sabor un tanto amargo del D-Day. Como siempre, Piscitelli propuso nuevas lecturas y enfoques, en tanto que los diferentes invitados contribuyeron a brindar otro evento de calidad a nuestra facultad y van…

La desilusión viene de la mano de la participación de Milena Recio Silva, profesora de la Universidad de La Habana, en la mesa redonda sobre Periodismo digital en Iberoamérica. Allí se negó la realidad sobre el consumo de Internet en Cuba y el control que el régimen ejerce sobre la red y los contenidos que el ciudadano cubano puede o no consumir-producir.

After the meeting of the Iberoamerican Network of Digital Communication in our University of Victoria [in Spain], I was left with a sour taste in my mouth from the “Digital Day” events. Like always, Alejandro Piscitelli proposed new courses and focuses just as the various invitees contributed to providing another quality event in our department.

The disappointment came at the hand of Milena Recio Silva, professor at the University of Habana, in the roundtable about digital journalism in Latin America. There she dismissed the reality about internet consumption in Cuba and the control that the regime exercises over the network and the content which the Cuban citizen can or cannot consume or produce.

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Landing at the Iraqi Blogodrome

A small portrait of the translator Salam Adil · 01:09 · Middle East & North Africa

When it comes to food, I know where I would rather live. And, those of you who have never eaten ‘Masgoof' before or tried Iraqi fruit and vegetables, will not understand me when I say that as far as food is concerned Iraq is the most civilized countries in the world. I still, for the life of me, cannot understand how British people accept to pay for hugely overpriced vegetables that taste of nothing more than water. But I digress…

Today I will highlight bloggers talking about food and that is not all, there is also the rich variety of posts that the Iraqi bloggers always serve up. As it is topical I also must cover the Haditha Massacre.

If you read no other posts this week, read these.

You will hear much about the those that died but less about the survivors of a bomb blast. Two bloggers this week survived and write about the aftermath.

Morbid Smile's is feeling “hopeless, Helpless, Angry, … Simply, I feel like a hell burning inside of me.” A motorcycle exploded in her local market and 22 of her neighbors died. I will let her describe the rest in her own words.

Thankfully, we were all at home that night. I begged Mom to go out and buy some stuff from the market but she kept telling me to postpon it to the next day. If we were there at that time, I would be writing this from Heaven by now. Or from Hell maybe!

We knew most of the people who died. One of them was a girl preparing for her wedding day which happened to be the next day! Three little brothers were inside a car waiting for the parent. One of them had his brain popped out of his head and died immedeatly, the two others lived but with a traumatic disease now. And many more…

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