VW Golf Club Kazakhstan

At this post I really want to express my opinion of OPJ in Kazakhstan. What is Online Participatory Journalism? Different people understand this words in different meaning and they have a lot of opinions that may vary… do you think the weblogs that you created could be considered as an example of Online Participatory Journalism? Some of you will say “yes, it is” and some of you will say “no, it’s not”. It is called “Differences Opinion”…

There are many-many websites in KazNet (Kazakhstan Network) that can be seen as an example of OPJ in Kazakhstan. I choose one that is very close for me and I find it interesting. That is Volkswagen Golf Club Kazakhstan. VWGC is a website that’s dedicated to the auto fans and mostly to the people who own the car of that brand. The Club has a huge number of members that interact with each other, so it is as a big community. The site also has blogs, chat and forum where everybody can take part in different disscussions and find answers to the questions they really want to.

This is the group project. The authors of the website are young people from Almaty city. I know all of them and actually confidently can say that they are devoted to their work. The project was prepered and implemented to loyal fans of VW Golf. In the site of the Club you will get to know a lot of interesting and useful stuff… at least you will definetly find something new. The members of the community can post and publish interesting articles, facts and not only in their blogs and forum, but also in the site… of course after the administration gives permission to do so. That’s why I see it as a good example of Kazakhstani OPJ.

Links that I commonly use…

There a lot things I look for everyday and the Internet is the most comfortable and easy-to-find source. Here are some links I use almost everyday to find smth, check my e-mail, to read the latest news, to prepare my paper works and etc.

1. Wikipedia

2. Gmail

3. VW Golf Club Kazakhstan

4. KIMEP SG Forum

5. My personal weblog on wordpress

Information about the Neweurasia Kazakhstan site

1. Neweurasia Kazakhstan – http://kz.kazakhstan.neweurasia.net/

2. The site uses Kazakh, Russian and English languages.

3. The site authors are:

Leila is an authour of neweurasia-Kazakhstan and execucutive editor of the neweurasia weblog in general. She also contributes to the Global Voices Online, and blogs on her LiveJournal.

Her email is leila@neweurasia . net.

Askhat Erkimbay is coordinator and the editor of the news in kazakh language on “Neweurasia.net” weblog.

His E-mail: urimtal@gmail.com and his personal weblog: http://urimtal.wordpress.com

Bakhytgul Salykhova is an advisor of CAECN (Central Asia Education Cooperation Network). When she has free time out of work she writes an articles in kazakh langauge on different blogs including Neweurasia.

Her e-mail: baqytgul@gmail.com and weblogs: http://adebiet.wordpress.com/ http://qazaqblogshilar.wordpress.com/

Adam is a coordinator of the neweurasia’s Kazakhstan weblog.

Skype: adam_kesher2000, icq: 174-421-941

Kuanish Magzuov is a blogger who dreams to increase the popularty of Kazakh language inside the internet. E-mail: huanysh@gmail.com

neweurasia is a network of weblogs coordinated and written by bright young individuals from Central Asia and the Caucasus together with their peers around the globe.

4. All authors of Neweurasia Kazakhstan site are from Kazakhstan, and live in Almaty city.

5. The site has been active since Sep. 2005. It has unlimited number of users and members that publish their own articles. There are 5 or 6 entries per week.

6. Yes, the site allows it’s users to leave comments, but there are few articles in the site, probably the reason is that it is not so popular at the moment, but it develops and I hope it will attract many people in near future.

7. Yes, the site provides RSS feeds. If someone would like to subscribe for its RSS feeds here is the link to do so.

8. What community? Community of CIS countries (almost all countries of CIS). Also group of different people with different tastes and points of view, but all of them are attracted by the interest of the development of journalism and mass-media in the country.

9. Topics are mostly news oriented.

10, 11. Well, when you visit the website for the first time you see very simple and primitive project, but when you start to observe and explore it from the title to the core you become a person who realises that his/her first impression was misleading… it has really huge data, information, news, articles and so much more… that’s why it makes Neweurasia Kazakhstan a good example of online participatory journalism…

Open Production and Closed Production

 We were given two examples of collaborative production, those are Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britanica. Both of them are available online and have many information in their servers, so you can find almost everything you are looking for. It shows us that they are open sources. But for me, to the guy who used Wikipedia for a log time to find what I want when I need to, Britanica seems to me as a very primitive and not so interesting website, and it does not even have some simple stuff that most people want to know. On the other hand Wikipedia is really easy to use and consist of many-many different articles and news that make people to pay attention when they enter the site. Even when you search something at Google it gives you a link(s) straightly to Wikipedia. I am not actually saying that Britanica is boring and unuseful, but the problem is that Wikipedia is more popular at the moment rather than the other one. Perhaps it should take some particular period of time to Britanica to become as popular as Wikipedia.

Zhanara’s post

http://zhanara.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/assets-weblog/

Here is the link to Our Group Project

Social networks/communities we are part of…

Social networks are all arround us and we are as a part of it… Scince network itself and Internet became popular and available we were all involved in social community. We communicate and iinteract with each other very easly at the moment, even if those two or groups of people are far far away one from another and live or stay in different parts of the world. As an example we can look at the telephone that makes us closer… and of course all other modern entertainment stuff like e-mails, online chats, forums and etc. A group of people that are interested in some things that make them part of that community, of that society using new technologies and opportunity that was given in a new world as a gift.

(c) Asset Mashanov

What is journalism?

Journalism is the reporting of events at different levels, such as  local, provincial, national and international levels. This reporting includes the gathering of information through interviewing and research, the results of which are turned into a fair and balanced story for publication or for television or radio broadcast etc.

You may ask why journalism is important? Because journalism is part of each day of our lives. Most of all we do not notice the participation of ourself in journalism or vice versa.

Journalism and news provide us with the latest information and events in the world that surrounds us.

We get and eat news and information every day as a part of our meal, not even having an attention on that.

Experience

I’ve never had such experience. Neither interactive, nor non-interactive.

Also I’ve no idea what is interactive and what is not.