Citizens everywhere are getting together via the Internet in unprecented ways to set the agenda for news, to inform each other about global issues, and to create new services in a connected, always-on society. An executive summary of We Media 2.0, which will be released at The Media Center’s We Media conference in October, will describe the forces reshaping the media landscape.

We Media 2.0 describes how mass collaboration disrupts control-based enterprises, shaking up communications channels and businesses. It documents the emerging mediascape by providing context, rules, implications, applications and resources for participation. The report updates and revises the original We Media report, seminal research from The Media Center that forecast how audiences would shape the future of news and information.

Participants at October’s We Media conference will receive an executive summary of the report.

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In 2002, The Media Center commissioned Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis to document an emerging phenomenon: the rise and impact of participatory journalism. We called it "We Media". Their prescient report published in 2003 has become the reference point for a movement that engages citizens everywhere in the transaction of content and commerce online.

We Media launched a global conversation. The report, which has been translated into Spanish, has been downloaded more than 25,000 times. To participate in a thread of that conversation and to learn more about Bowman and Willis, go to:

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"It looks like [We Media will] be the reference point for any serious discussions of this topic from now on."

David Weinberger Author of Small Pieces, Loosely Joined and Co-Author of The Cluetrain Manifesto

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