MIT Convergence Culture Consortium project manager Sam Ford discusses the ethics of citizen journalism and the blogosphere referring to a debate between Morgan Ramsay and Microsoft’s David Edery about a communications incident involving Sony Computer Entertainment America and Kotaku.

Biography

Sam Ford is project manager at MIT Convergence Culture Consortium (C3) where he writes on television culture, fan communities, narrative archives, and the media industries. In addition to working on research projects, he serves as editor-in-chief of the internal newsletter Weekly Update and the C3 Weblog.

As a professional journalist, Ford currently writes the weekly column “From Beaver Dam to Boston” for The Ohio County Times-News. He won the Kentucky Press Association award for best feature story in a weekly newspaper for his work with The Greenville Leader-News.

Websites

Company: MIT Convergence Culture Consortium
Blog: MIT Convergence Culture Consortium Weblog