January 20, 2009

Middle schoolers as citizen reporters

Just watched the Inauguration and inaugural address. I’ll let the blogosphere’s version of the punditocracy dissect it (I’ve confined my remarks to Twitter.) Meantime, back in the social media/citizen media space:

Taking the media into your own hands has filtered down to the middle school level. I bumped into the reporting team from the Santa Barbara Middle School Teen Press a couple of times at Macworld Expo but others where interviewing them so I decided not to distract them with another interview request.

Michael Aivaliotis at VI Shots has the lowdown on these young media makers.

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