Who on Earth was it that said,
That journalism was dead?
Maas-Media believes there are stories to be told. Stories about human beings reinventing their surroundings, thinking and acting outside boxes, stories about empowerment and creativity. Stories to get us to think, to challenge accepted paradigms, and in some cases, to give us some hope about the world that we live in. If the scenario of these stories is profoundly local, their significance is in fact global. Maas-Media is a platform bringing local stories to any other locality, creating a global dialogue around the virtual dinner table. Through the emphasis on the local, we can regain a democratic element that is otherwise still severely lacking in our contemporary media landscape. Yet this narration is not only limited to a virtual dimension, but rather we believe that the sharing of these stories also necessitates a physical space in which to be performed. Therefore, integral to our mission is the facilitation of such spaces in which people from various walks of life can meet face to face and become narrators of their own realities. These stories are and can be told in a whole variety of different forms of media, from text to photograph to audio to video, whereby these media serve as different, yet equally important glasses through which these stories can be seen and re-seen.
Now, this platform having been created, Maas-Media makes a call to you, the reader, the journalist, to submit your own stories, whatever format they be in. After all, it is thanks to them that the discussion around our bonfire stays alive. So write on, and let your stories be heard!
All submissions can be sent to: info@maas-media.org
The Manifesto of Participatory Journalism from Maas Media on Vimeo.
