What Is This Blog?

I’m Will Hirzy, a senior at School Without Walls in Washington, DC, and I’m completing my Senior Thesis Project on the role of citizen journalism in online media. So far, I’ve written a 15-page paper on the subject, drawing upon many primary sources, as well as the analysis of scholars.

This blog is the second phase of my project. Here, I will share with you several examples of citizen journalism and interactive multimedia packages, including a few I used in my paper. Each post will include one primary source and several discussion questions. This is where you, the readers, come in. I ask that you comment on the posts, addressing the discussion questions. I also ask that you give me your profession and age (if you feel comfortable) for demographic reasons and your email address for follow-up research. If you would rather not include this information in your comment, please email it, with some way of identifying your comment, to me at: whirzy [at] gmail [dot] com.

Thanks to everyone who reads and comments on my blog. By doing so, you are helping me a great deal with my paper. Most of all, thank you Ms. Schulz for teaching the Senior Project class and thank you Lindsay McCullough for being my project mentor and coming up with the idea for this blog.