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Dunning and Kruger’s “Incompetent People Are Clueless” and Converged Media

Incompetent people are clueless. And I mean this in the nicest way. (I also happily count myself among the clueless at every stage of early adopting)  Marc Abrahams cleverly reviews the study produced by psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger and notes the key findings: 1 Incompetent people dramatically overestimate their ability; and 2 Incompetent people are [...]

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  • First Place Award for AEJMC Best Practices in Teaching of Diversity "Civic Engagement, New Media and Journalism: A Template for the Organic Incorporation of Diversity into a New Journalism Curriculum" will be presented in Boston, Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 #
  • Newspapers and Coal “Nothing focuses one’s attention so well”, wrote Churchill, “ as the prospect of being hanged in the morning”. #
  • Making web developers full-fledged members of the editorial team changes content...in a good way: The New Journalism #
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  • NON-PROFIT MODEL FOR NEWSPAPERS MAY BE THE ANSWER   Before newspaper owners whittle their newsrooms and their product down to nothing, they owe it to themselves, their employees, their still-loyal readers and their communities -- not to mention their shareholders -- to try the not-for-profit route. By Joe Mathewson #

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