In the age of the Internet, everyone is a journalist

When Bradley Manning's defense attorneys wanted someone to explain journalism to the court trying him, they did not call on a journalist, they called on a legal scholar and expert in networks: Yochai Benkler, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard and author of The Wealth of Networks. For as Benkler explained to the court, journalism is now a network – a "network 'fourth estate'". In this network, there are many roles that can be linked together...

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