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7 years ago How will we know a freeport node isn't just a psyop agent?
How will people know what a node is saying is true?
Why district0x?
On 21 August 2017 at 06:29, googooboy notifications@github.com wrote:
Challenge
One of the biggest challenges of media is determining whether or not information from new media sources is valid, authentic and accurate. It is important not to sacrifice the traditional values of media for the speed new media.
Having analysed the media in countries with non-democratic governments like China, North Korea, Iran, Arab countries and etc., we can see a battle between hardliners and reformers. The best way to describe this battle is to call it a public relations struggle. A struggle between the opposition (usually the youth of these countries), which knows how to use technology to get support for their cause, and the government, which tries to block them from doing so.
After any incident in these countries (example: Arab Spring), a public relations war begins as both the government and the opposition try to spin the events in their favore. The governments usually win this battle because they have the power of the traditional state-run media to condemn the opposition. However, few times the oppositions have been able to speak out against the governments, and it was only by voicing their own arguments through new media, like facebook, twitter and other social media.
Nowadays, new media plays an important role in our lives. Because, unlike traditional forms of media, new media is not a one-way sources of information; citizens are able to use new media to both send and receive information. During the protests in Arab Spring, citizens used digital cameras and cell phones to capture images and video of the protests, which they then posted on YouTube. They also used Twitter to link to blogs and other web pages with videos and pictures of the protests. Facebook played an important role in garnering support for the protests; opposition leaders Facebook pages gained thousands of followers. Solution
All of these together resulted in the idea of FreePort, a decentralised transmedia platform dedicated to facilitate it for each citizen to become a professional source of news to help spread democracy around the world.
This FreePort can give a new meaning to the word “media.” Using FreePort, users are able to see events on the other side of the world unfold right before their eyes. It can also change the course of information. Sections
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Reporting: In FreePort, each person is a node of news. Each person can post Texts, Photos, Videos, Sounds, Location Datas, about different events going on around them. And others can confirm the news by voting for it or simply editing, or updating the initial posted article.
Requesting News: News agencies, institutes, websites and anyone interested in a particular event, can request the community to report on the event. So the News Agencies will no longer be only the providers of news but also receivers of news.
Learning: There’s an special section in the FreePort Platform where people can create MOOCs to teach others how to take a photos by simple cellphone cameras but with journalistic standards, or how to shoot better videos of an event. They can teach others tips or learn from others how to think and how to act while taking a photo or shooting a video to make photojournalistic shots using simplest tools, or for example teach the members how to write a journalistic article.
Reward
People by participating, can earn points and reputation and help the community grow, and at the same time broadcast the reality of the events and news, and not just the Fake News. Expansion in different fields
The idea of FreePort came to my mind mainly about news and political issues. The goal is to give people more power in media than the governments. To change the traditional centralised media. And to have a more reliable source of news. However, one can expand the same platform for different subjects, I mean maybe in a Europe it could be used more for reporting environmental issues.
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Name: FreePort District 📡📻📺🎙
A decentralised platform for citizen journalism
⚠️ Challenge
One of the biggest challenges of media is determining whether or not information from new media sources is valid, authentic and accurate. It is important not to sacrifice the traditional values of media for the speed new media.
Having analysed the media in countries with non-democratic governments like China, North Korea, Iran, Arab countries and etc., we can see a battle between hardliners and reformers. The best way to describe this battle is to call it a public relations struggle. A struggle between the opposition (usually the youth of these countries), which knows how to use technology to get support for their cause, and the government, which tries to block them from doing so.
After any incident in these countries (example: Arab Spring), a public relations war begins as both the government and the opposition try to spin the events in their favore. The governments usually win this battle because they have the power of the traditional state-run media to condemn the opposition. However, few times the oppositions have been able to speak out against the governments, and it was only by voicing their own arguments through new media, like facebook, twitter and other social media.
Nowadays, new media plays an important role in our lives. Because, unlike traditional forms of media, new media is not a one-way sources of information; citizens are able to use new media to both send and receive information. During the protests in Arab Spring, citizens used digital cameras and cell phones to capture images and video of the protests, which they then posted on YouTube. They also used Twitter to link to blogs and other web pages with videos and pictures of the protests. Facebook played an important role in garnering support for the protests; opposition leaders Facebook pages gained thousands of followers.
✅ Purpose
All of these together resulted in the idea of FreePort, a decentralised transmedia platform dedicated to facilitate it for each citizen to become a professional source of news to help spread democracy around the world.
FreePort can give a new meaning to the word “media.” Using FreePort, users are able to see events on the other side of the world unfold right before their eyes. It can also change the course of information.
🌐 Description
Different sections of the platform include:
Reporting: In FreePort, each person is a node of news. Each person can post Texts, Photos, Videos, Sounds, Location Datas, about different events going on around them. And others can confirm the news by voting for it or simply editing, or updating the initial posted article.
Requesting News: News agencies, institutes, websites and anyone interested in a particular event, can request the community to report on the event. So the News Agencies will no longer be only the providers of news but also receivers of news.
Learning: There’s an special section in the FreePort Platform where people can create MOOCs to teach others how to take a photos by simple cellphone cameras but with journalistic standards, or how to shoot better videos of an event. They can teach others tips or learn from others how to think and how to act while taking a photo or shooting a video to make photojournalistic shots using simplest tools, or for example teach the members how to write a journalistic article.
💎 Reward
People by participating, can earn points and reputation and help the community grow, and at the same time broadcast the reality of the events and news, and not just the Fake News.
⚙️ Expansion in different fields
The idea of FreePort came to my mind mainly about news and political issues. The goal is to give people more power in media than the governments. To change the traditional centralised media. And to have a more reliable source of news. However, one can expand the same platform for different subjects, I mean maybe in a Europe it could be used more for reporting environmental issues.
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