Dino Karabeg

Answers to three questions

Difference - How should journalism be different?

The job of right informing is too important to be abandoned to commercial or superficial interests. Journalism first of all must be 'informed' or 'methodologically based'. In other words, there has to be a reliable 'innovation ecosystem' behind journalism, creating what journalism does, and making sure that it works as it should. This 'innovation ecosystem' I see to be a primary social role of the academia (a post-reductionistic notion of 'basic research' is creating how knowledge work works).

Journalism must be able to provide key insights for us. 'Being informed' is about insights (notably 'gestalts'), not about trivia.

Good journalism should be 'a tip of an iceberg' i.e. the visible part of a large and solid knowledge work ecosystem, which includes both the academic and other experts and 'the crowd' and the students, and which identifies, selects, verifies, prepares (...) the relevant material.

Accountability - How can we secure that journalism will answer to its key social role?

Part of the answer is the first point above: There has to be a design behind journalism, specifying what the purpose is and how it is to be achieved.
The work of journalists should be governed by a carefully designed knowledge work ecosystem, which rewards (remunerates) and makes visible that which is truly of interest. The Value Matrix Object is being designed in Knowledge Federation as enabling technology.

Sustainability – How will good journalism make revenue?

Microfinancing – steered by mechanisms based on Value Matrix Object
Two-Step Marketing – i.e. next-generation advertising, one that is based on supporting what is truly good. Again the VMO has a role (distinguishing companies, products and services that truly deserve to be promoted), for Two-Step Marketing see my article Information for Conscious Choice.

Difference – What are the key characteristics of an ‘innovation ecosystem’ or a ‘transdiscipline’?

Community that includes necessary kinds of expertise; notably journalists and knowledge media researchers, but also others.
Designing, not inheriting patterns – thinking 'outside the box', starting from underlying societal needs, technlogical possibilities, insights and principles; using the domain map to organize relevant insights.
The community practices 'bootstrapping' or 'self-organization' (uses itself as model or sandbox to evolve socio-technical solutions).

Transdiscipline dynamics How, and with what technologies as ‘Lego blocs’ should the ‘innovation ecosystem for good journalism’ function?

The Domain Map Object – where the heterogeneous community will organize their resources and create a shared vision. An initial version is improvised here by Mediawiki. We should move on to possibly Debategraph, or a combination of Compendium and Cohere.

New journalism dynamics – How, and with what technological building blocs, should the new media channel function?