Research 2

A student made an observation the other day which triggered some interesting thoughts. She felt the project should have included non-journalism students because journalists are the ones most threatened by new technology. In other words there is something "wrong" about asking journalism students to come up with innovations that are likely to relegate them in the periphery of the news writing process while mainstreaming citizen participation and engagement. She also observed that the process might have benefited from surveying ordinary citizens to find out what features they would love to see in news sites. Which brings me to my point about possible research opportunity. It seems to me that in future, one could design a research project that might include a team of ordinary citizens as a control group and test a few hypothesis on innovations processes and invested populations.