www.inmediahk.net

Background

- BBS and forum internet culture in Hong Kong e.g Discuss Hong Kong, HK golden

- Democratic movement: E-politics, Hiradio.net

- Freedom of speech issue: shrinking space in commercial radio and newspapers People's radio Hong Kong

- People's organizations' demand to overcome the segregation of social movement: globalnetwork

- Alternative and independent publication tradition: books and magazines

Overseas references

- Media Activism: IMC

- Intellectual tradition: Z-net

- Citizen reporting: Ohmynews

- Blog culture and grassroots media, e.g Dan Gillmor

- Movement media from Korea: Nodong

- Internet public sphere and organization in China: e.g Tianya

Operation and organization structure

- recent changes: company registration and organization registration

- editorial team base on e-mail discussion.

Review

- Statistics growth: internet company and alexa

members, columnists, column, etc.

- Citizen reporters practice in WTO and media activism

- Chinese internet mediascape: positioning among Taiwan, overseas Chinese, Mainland China

- Overseas networking: interlocal project

Challenge

- Financial

the myth of internet financial support, esp. in Hong Kong.

news's market value is not based on the news item itself (free newspapers, internet news)

- Cultural

internet culture: icq, bbs, xanga rather than public blog / expression. private rather than public sphere. populism in news comments

tech culture: people's living standard and life style behind technological development;

lack of new media agencies: gap in integration between or transformation from traditional practice and new media practice: e.g video power

instrumental rather than creative mentality

- Political

Great firewall: difficult to enter china market as information providers

Government policy: HK vs. Taipei vs. S.Korea: sponsor big corps (digital harbour) rather than social agencies and creating space (digital divide, wireless, public access media center, distribution, crashing BT).