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After five years of navigation in the
webclouds, radiobubble is proudly presenting Hackademy, a strain
originating from the community, aiming at training professional or
non-professional journalists about new media and the web radio.
Since September 2007 when we first
started, until now, we have acquired knowledge about how new media
can be accurate, trustworthy and efficient. We have also produced
results that changed the up to then impression about what the new
media are, but also about the practical definition of “citizens’
journalism” and “web radio”.
Radiobubble itself started as a “weird
hybrid”, that was never met before in international literature.
People uploading podcasts on a common website, was already happening.
But people creating radio shows and uploading them on a website,
transforming it gradually to a “radio community” with evident
cohesion was a premiere.
On the other hand, there were several
web radios, even with a community culture, especially abroad. But
combining the “modern way” of a live radio programme with the
“vintage way” of uploaded shows, played in the programme, was
completely new.
It’s even more interesting that later
on, it turned out that an open web community with neither structure
nor conventional media hierarchy (directors, editors in chief etc),
managed to completely change the impression we used to have about
radio, and produce very high level content –a completely opposite
to the mainstream radio one.
Playing music which is covering the
entire spectrum of human creativity and practically ignoring
commercially specified "expertise", defined by the "kind"
of music or the date of production, radiobubble redefined “radio"
in the new era, without getting trapped by the facilities of playlist
and "automation" which prioritizes "conventional
models" whose main objective is commercial profit.
De facto, importance was given to the
personality of the people behind the microphone, and se we found
ourselves at the threshold between the past and the future of Greek
and international radio. This communication produced theater pieces,
radio documentaries, created only to be played by radiobubble. We
ended up scanning the hazy field, where radio show is approaching the
art.
The use of language, especially the
Greek language, in a new media traveling in the chaotic sea of the
web, where in theory everything is allowed, but also everything can
vanish because of the huge load of information, is a constant
challenge. As radiobubble was more and more connected to the culture
of reliable blogs, the culture of the so called “thinking web”,
the living written web “new language”, started finding its volume
and becoming a radio show.
Music and art cannot be conceived
without being connected to what’s happening in the society: it was
therefore normal that we were led to create new forms of
communication, innovation related to journalism.
Swooping by the culture we had already
created via our everyday abrading with all the above mentioned terms,
ideas and values, we created the first open pole of citizens’
journalism in Greece. It operated around the web community that is
transmitting news via twitter, using the hashtag #rbnews. This
community, though open, manages to define itself by its code of
conduct and declaration of principles, which always and on purpose
remain under readjustment.
As we were steadily and more and more
often invited to academic conferences and workshops, asking us to
explain “how we do it” and to analyze the “recipes” and
“methods” of creating a web community, a web radio with the above
characteristics, but also the construction of a citizens’ free and
serious team is producing journalistic results, we started codifying
in a systematic way our knowledge. We soon realized that the best way
would be that we all take the responsibility to transfer it to anyone
who is interested and us willing to learn.
And while checking the CVs of those
participating in the radiobubble community, we realized the high
level of scientific training and professional experience we have as a
team.
Hackademy is the natural result of the
above. Its basic target is to constitute the epicenter of interaction
of the three key poles of the information “ecosystem”, namely the
civil society, the professional journalists and the academic society.
So we had to define as the main characteristic of Hackademy, that
“it’s breaking the codes of learning”, which is accompanying
its brandname.
Developing its curriculum is the result
of months of hard work by Angeliki
Boubouka, @galaxyarchis,
Apostolis
Kaparoudakis and @doleross.
Its current form is a draft, more names
will soon appear on the page of contributors, while we also plan to
create its library.
It’s going to be the center of scientific knowledge that will be
open to anyone and will constitute a useful tool for all those face
journalism and new media with great interest.
The first classes are scheduled to
start by October 2012.
For the moment, we are doing our best
so as to minimize their cost, without compromising the quality of the
offered knowledge.
http://www.hackademy.gr/
Twitter: @hackademy
hashtag: #hackademy
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RadiobubbleHackademy
mail: radiobubble.hackademy (at) gmail.com
We would like to thank @MindThe_Gab for creating the logo and the poster of Hackademy, and also his help to improve the website. We also thank @potmos and @menacius for the technical support and the building of the Hackademy webpage.
We would like to thank @MindThe_Gab for creating the logo and the poster of Hackademy, and also his help to improve the website. We also thank @potmos and @menacius for the technical support and the building of the Hackademy webpage.
Translated by @Krotkie
