You can replay a live blog of the event below. You can also view Steve’s slides from the presentation online.

Steve also presented four session on ethics on November 19. That live blog is also available online.

(Journalism) is not business model; it is not a job; it is not a company; it is not an industry; it is not a form of media; it is not a distribution platform. Instead, journalism is an activity. It is a body of practices by which information and knowledge is gathered, processed, and conveyed. The practices are influenced by the form of media and distribution platform, of course, as well as by financial arrangements that support the journalism. But one should not equate the two.

— Robert Picard, Professor of Media Economics, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Sweden, writing in his blog, The Media Business

There are people in the States right now tying themselves into knots, trying to figure out whether or not bloggers are journalists. And the answer to that question is, it doesn’t matter, because that’s not the right question. Journalism was an answer to an even more important question, which is, how will society be informed? How will they share ideas and opinions? And if there is an answer to that that happens outside the professional framework of journalism, it makes no sense to take a professional metaphor and apply it to this distributed class.

— Clay Shirky speaking at a TED Talks event on the net’s collaborative culture

Contradictions, confusions, and multiple perspectives should be anticipated at a moment of transition where one media paradigm is dying and another is being born. None of us really knows how to live in this era of media convergence, collective intelligence and participatory culture.  These changes are producing anxieties and uncertainties, even panic, as people imagine a world without gatekeepers and live with the reality of expanding corporate power.

— Henry Jenkins writing in Convergence Culture, Where Old and New Media Collide

The popular claim that ‘we are all journalists now’ must be refuted; perhaps we are all producers of online content, but the great values associated with journalism must be nurtured to ensure the high quality reporting that a thriving democracy has the right to expect.

— Ernest Wilson, Dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication in a piece for Poynter, “Where are J-Schools in Great Debate over Journalism’s Future?”