I attended the fascinating Second Citizen Media Rendez-Vous event here in Montreal a couple of weeks ago here. At the event I met several freelancers and media gurus for the first time, as well as running into some familiar faces – including Craig Silverman of OpenFile and Veena Gokhale, a media freelancer who attended the last All Media Mixer event.
I admit, I have been a little remiss in posting thoughts on the event, so I was glad when Veena contacted me to share hers:
I was curious to check out this event given the panic about “the disappearance of the print media as we know it”, contrasted with the proliferation of new media technologies and usage, and accelerating audience fragmentation. Perhaps new “Citizen Media,” whatever that was, would present the empowering face of this cataclysmic change, largely depicted as negative.
This is what I learnt…
Read the rest of this post at Veena’s blog Veen’around.
Veena Gokhale works with a range of media and is a web writer and blogger, maintaining website content as well as editing and distributing electronic newsletters.
A graduate of communication studies, her background is in print journalism and communications coordination work with non-profits, have given her a deep understanding of media values and processes.
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