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June 20, 2005
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Video or Text?
As citizens' media continues to grow and spark changes in old media, creating a new ecosystem of information, some are still dismissive (Forbes | Citizens Media Entrepreneurs ).
It all sounds great--but I predict most citizens media sites will fizzle unless they take America's pathetic literacy rate into account. According to the National Institute for Literacy's Web site, only half of Americans aged 16 to 65 are literate enough to succeed "in today's labor market"--and that research was published in 2002. Are Americans better readers and writers today? I doubt it.
I agree with
Citizen Paine, who sees other forms of media as important, but text remaining critical (
Are Video and Audio Critical to a Site's Success?).
Bottom line: Incorporate all media, but don't underestimate the value of text as a means of making the user part of the conversation.
I definitely would not underestimate text. It is and will remain one of the best ways to transmit information.
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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