About
Signcasts is a non-profit news organization dedicated towards building the Deaf and Signing community by informing and engaging its citizens.
We use both Civic and Participatory (or Citizen) journalism. We are civic journalism since Signcasts works in interest of the community. We are dedicated towards using the news to strengthen the social bonds within the community, and foster community engagement, organizing and development. Signcasts is also participatory or 'citizen' journalism since we are dedicated towards including all members of the Deaf and Signing community in the production of the news.
Signcasts was founded and is run by Brein Mcnamara. View my explanation of the project for the 2008 Knight News Challenge
View/read more about my idea to use journalism for deaf community building.
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To learn more about Citizen Journalism, check these references : Wikipedia Citizen Journalism Entry "We the Media" weblog and book by Dan Gilmore NYU Professor Jay Rozen's "A most useful Definition of Citizen Journalism" "10 Preconditions for the Value of User-generated Content" from Korean Citizen Journalism site OhmyNewsCopyright notice
This site uses 'user-generated-content'. All rights are maintained by the authors. All other materials owned by Signcasts are (unless otherwise noted) licensed under a Creative Commons License.
