AgoraVox
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AgoraVox is a French
website of news powered by volunteers and non-professional writers, created by Carlo Revelli and Joël de Rosnay
in March 2005, offering items by single or multiple writers.
AgoraVox was one of the first citizen journalism
website in France, and is similar to the community sites L'Echo du Village (1998) and Indymedia ( 1999 ). Many more or less participatory sites have emerged since, such as Rue 89
, Le Post, Mediapart and Atlantico
. It can be compared to the Korean site OhmyNews
.
As of April 2009, nearly 40,000 volunteers were enrolled as editors of the French version. They were 70,000 in April 2011. At that time, the site had over 1900 volunteer moderators. An Italian version of the site was launched at the end of 2008. Many variations have also emerged: AgoraVox TV, NaturaVox, EducaVox, CareVox, Orser and SportVox .
According to Google Trends
, the site agoravox.fr has on average 50,000 daily unique visitors and agoravox.tv has 15,000 unique visitors.
The starting point was Carlo Revelli's research on strategic intelligence on the Internet: "Indeed, beyond the enterprise, which will revolutionize individual behavior on the Internet, it is this "watchman attitude", which is to keep your eyes open and to enrich yourself at all levels: whether to find unpublished information, check a rumor, enrich your knowledge, forge your beliefs, compare prices of a book, identify the surgeon who introduced the latest technology to treat a rare disease, etc."
Carlo Revelli announced the creation of the AgoraVox Foundation on the site of the newspaper. The Foundation, whose headquarters are in Belgium
, was established on 18 June 2008 and state-approved by the Minister of Justice of Belgium
, thus becoming the first media group of its type to achieve this recognition.
The site also carries many feature articles, stories already published elsewhere, comments and editorials often published in an "open forum" section.
As part of intelligence work that places the citizen at the center of the system as a finder and analyzer of information, commentary on current events is important: to comment on existing information and carry out criticism of its treatment in the media, especially in areas where there is a climate of mistrust about it.
The Editorial Board is composed of members of the team of editors and AgoraVox moderators, each of whom have published at least four articles on the site.
Originally, in order to be a member of the Drafting Committee, it was necessary to have already published a number of articles on AgoraVox and be recognized as an editor of "quality". Since 5 December 2007, becoming moderator only requires a writer to have published at least four articles . This is the first filter when requesting a publication, with the original AgoraVox team taking responsibility, once a quorum of approval is received, to make a final check before validation.
Also, generally (but not necessarily), the members of this Committee are the editors 'historical', present on the platform almost since its launch.
Articles can be changed in form or reproduced by the Foundation via AgoraVox's media partners, and their commercial exploitation is not excluded.
Legal responsibility for an article is left to its author, who has the opportunity to withdraw it from immediate view by marking it with the comment "withdraw".
The team who run the site believe that it benefits from a deep internal tendency in Western societies: "participation" of citizens, whose word would be censored by the mainstream media run by multinationals.
alleged that Dominique Strauss-Kahn
had sexually assaulted her in 2002 during the course of an interview while she was researching Erreurs avouées:"It ended really badly. We ended up fighting. It finished really violently ... I said the word 'rape' to scare him but it didn't seem to scare him much ... " Strauss-Kahn's name was bleep censor
ed when the television program was broadcast, and in the French media only AgoraVox subsequently repeated the allegations.
France. Agoravox is classified as a blog partner of Yahoo! News, but not within the category Yahoo! News category "Daily News."
Google News
lists certain AgoraVox items: they numbered about 600 in December 2006, and there were over 50,000 in February 2009.
The German broadcaster Deutsche Welle
elected AgoraVox "Best Journalistic Blog in French" in 2005.. The launch of AgoraVox was closely followed by most newspapers, television and radio. In 2010, Frédéric Taddei was interviewed on AgoraVox.tv, where he expressed support for AgoraVox as an editorial initiative.
Issue 55 of the magazine Nexus ran a story on the issue of mandatory vaccination, following a survey conducted from July to October 2007 by AgoraVox and coordinated by journalist Jean-Luc Martin-Lagardette for his article "Is mandatory immunization still justified?". A second participatory survey was launched in early May 2008 on the issue of "the state of poverty in France". A third survey was on the issue of participatory surcharges of hotline
phone numbers.
Several politicians and French elected office-holders (MPs, mayors, senators etc.) also regularly contribute columns on AgoraVox.
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
website of news powered by volunteers and non-professional writers, created by Carlo Revelli and Joël de Rosnay
Joël de Rosnay
Joël de Rosnay , Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a Mauritian-born French futurist, science writer, and molecular biologist....
in March 2005, offering items by single or multiple writers.
AgoraVox was one of the first citizen journalism
Citizen journalism
Citizen journalism is the concept of members of the public "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information," according to the seminal 2003 report We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information...
website in France, and is similar to the community sites L'Echo du Village (1998) and Indymedia ( 1999 ). Many more or less participatory sites have emerged since, such as Rue 89
Rue 89
Rue89 is a French news website. It was officially launched on 6 May 2007, on the day of the second round of the French presidential election. Its news editor is Pascal Riché, former Op-ed editor of Libération, and its chief editor...
, Le Post, Mediapart and Atlantico
Atlantico
Atlantico is a French news website. Founded in March 2011 amid much media attention, it quickly attracted notice for scoops related to scandals involving the Socialist politician and International Monetary Fund head, Dominique Strauss-Kahn....
. It can be compared to the Korean site OhmyNews
OhmyNews
OhmyNews is a South Korean online newspaper website with the motto "Every Citizen is a Reporter". It was founded by Oh Yeon Ho on February 22, 2000....
.
As of April 2009, nearly 40,000 volunteers were enrolled as editors of the French version. They were 70,000 in April 2011. At that time, the site had over 1900 volunteer moderators. An Italian version of the site was launched at the end of 2008. Many variations have also emerged: AgoraVox TV, NaturaVox, EducaVox, CareVox, Orser and SportVox .
According to Google Trends
Google Trends
Google Trends is a public web facility of Google Inc., based on Google Search, that shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages...
, the site agoravox.fr has on average 50,000 daily unique visitors and agoravox.tv has 15,000 unique visitors.
History
The company Cybion, created by Carlo Revelli and Joël de Rosnay, is behind this project and provides its funding. The AgoraVox project is the culmination of years of research and experimentation.The starting point was Carlo Revelli's research on strategic intelligence on the Internet: "Indeed, beyond the enterprise, which will revolutionize individual behavior on the Internet, it is this "watchman attitude", which is to keep your eyes open and to enrich yourself at all levels: whether to find unpublished information, check a rumor, enrich your knowledge, forge your beliefs, compare prices of a book, identify the surgeon who introduced the latest technology to treat a rare disease, etc."
Carlo Revelli announced the creation of the AgoraVox Foundation on the site of the newspaper. The Foundation, whose headquarters are in Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
, was established on 18 June 2008 and state-approved by the Minister of Justice of Belgium
Minister of Justice (Belgium)
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, thus becoming the first media group of its type to achieve this recognition.
Editorial policy
Editorial policy, as defined on the site, calls for the "publication of unpublished stories, discovered by citizens" .The site also carries many feature articles, stories already published elsewhere, comments and editorials often published in an "open forum" section.
As part of intelligence work that places the citizen at the center of the system as a finder and analyzer of information, commentary on current events is important: to comment on existing information and carry out criticism of its treatment in the media, especially in areas where there is a climate of mistrust about it.
The Editorial Board is composed of members of the team of editors and AgoraVox moderators, each of whom have published at least four articles on the site.
Originally, in order to be a member of the Drafting Committee, it was necessary to have already published a number of articles on AgoraVox and be recognized as an editor of "quality". Since 5 December 2007, becoming moderator only requires a writer to have published at least four articles . This is the first filter when requesting a publication, with the original AgoraVox team taking responsibility, once a quorum of approval is received, to make a final check before validation.
Also, generally (but not necessarily), the members of this Committee are the editors 'historical', present on the platform almost since its launch.
Articles can be changed in form or reproduced by the Foundation via AgoraVox's media partners, and their commercial exploitation is not excluded.
Legal responsibility for an article is left to its author, who has the opportunity to withdraw it from immediate view by marking it with the comment "withdraw".
The team who run the site believe that it benefits from a deep internal tendency in Western societies: "participation" of citizens, whose word would be censored by the mainstream media run by multinationals.
Uncensored broadcast
On 5 February 2007, during a television chat-show, French journalist Tristane BanonTristane Banon
Tristane Banon is a French journalist and writer. She is the daughter of Anne Mansouret and Gabriel Banon. She is a regular contributor on youth affairs at the French news website Atlantico.-Biography:...
alleged that Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn , often referred to in the media, and by himself, as DSK, is a French economist, lawyer, politician, and member of the French Socialist Party...
had sexually assaulted her in 2002 during the course of an interview while she was researching Erreurs avouées:"It ended really badly. We ended up fighting. It finished really violently ... I said the word 'rape' to scare him but it didn't seem to scare him much ... " Strauss-Kahn's name was bleep censor
Bleep censor
A bleep censor is the replacement of profanity or classified information with a beep sound , in television or radio...
ed when the television program was broadcast, and in the French media only AgoraVox subsequently repeated the allegations.
Agoravox media
Items are listed in the "Blogs/Editorials" of Yahoo! NewsYahoo! News
Yahoo! News is an Internet-based news aggregator provided by Yahoo!. It features Top Stories, U.S. National, World, Business, Entertainment, Science, Health, Weather, Most Popular, News Photos, Op/Ed, and Local news....
France. Agoravox is classified as a blog partner of Yahoo! News, but not within the category Yahoo! News category "Daily News."
Google News
Google News
Google News is a free news aggregator provided by Google Inc, selecting recent items from thousands of publications by an automatic aggregation algorithm....
lists certain AgoraVox items: they numbered about 600 in December 2006, and there were over 50,000 in February 2009.
The German broadcaster Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle or DW, is Germany's international broadcaster. The service is aimed at the overseas market. It broadcasts news and information on shortwave, Internet and satellite radio on 98.7 DZFE in 30 languages . It has a satellite television service , that is available in four languages, and...
elected AgoraVox "Best Journalistic Blog in French" in 2005.. The launch of AgoraVox was closely followed by most newspapers, television and radio. In 2010, Frédéric Taddei was interviewed on AgoraVox.tv, where he expressed support for AgoraVox as an editorial initiative.
Issue 55 of the magazine Nexus ran a story on the issue of mandatory vaccination, following a survey conducted from July to October 2007 by AgoraVox and coordinated by journalist Jean-Luc Martin-Lagardette for his article "Is mandatory immunization still justified?". A second participatory survey was launched in early May 2008 on the issue of "the state of poverty in France". A third survey was on the issue of participatory surcharges of hotline
Hotline
In telecommunication, a hotline is a point-to-point communications link in which a call is automatically directed to the preselected destination without any additional action by the user when the end instrument goes off-hook...
phone numbers.
People who have published or have been interviewed on AgoraVox
- Frédéric Taddeï, journalist, TV host and radio
- Denis RobertDenis RobertDenis Robert is a French freelance journalist and a writer. Robert formerly worked for Libération newspaper for 12 years....
, journalist, writer, filmmaker and visual artist - Jacques CheminadeJacques CheminadeJacques Cheminade, born August 20, 1941 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a French political activist. He is associated with the LaRouche movement, an international network of groups led by the American political activist, Lyndon LaRouche. He was a candidate for the French presidential election, 1995...
, French politician - Nicolas Dupont-AignanNicolas Dupont-AignanNicolas Dupont-Aignan is a French gaullist and souverainist politician. He has been a MP of the Essonne's 8th constituency since 1997 and a mayor of Yerres, Essonne since 1995....
, French politician - Corinne LepageCorinne LepageCorinne Dominique Marguerite Lepage, also known as Corinne Lepage is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the North-West constituency....
, French politician - Philippe Bilger, a French judge
- Loic Le MeurLoïc Le MeurLoïc Le Meur is a French rube entrepreneur and blogger. He served as Executive Vice President EMEA at software company Six Apart after merging French blogging company Ublog with Six Apart in July 2004...
, entrepreneur and blogger French - Akhenaton, rap singer and producer (Member of AMI)
- Daniel IchbiahDaniel IchbiahDaniel Ichbiah is a French author of several books on musical and technical topics. He has written a biography of Bill Gates which was published in some 15 countries and also a big book about Robots, which appeared in the USA and Germany as well as in France...
, French writer and journalist - Véronique Anger, French writer and journalist
- Denis LangloisDenis LangloisDenis Langlois is a French race walker.-Achievements:-External links:...
, French writer - François Hadji-Lazaro, French musician
- Noam ChomskyNoam ChomskyAvram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...
, American philosopher and Ilan PappeIlan PappéIlan Pappé is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, and political activist...
, Israeli historian - Pierre Musso, French philosopher and scientist
- Nathalie Kosciusko-MorizetNathalie Kosciusko-MorizetNathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , often referred to by her initials NKM, is the current Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing of France, appointed in November 2010....
, Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transportation and Housing - Yves MichaudYves MichaudYves Michaud is a prominent Quebec public figure, a sovereignist and pur et dur supporter of the Parti Québécois.-Background:...
, French philosopher - Benoît PeetersBenoît PeetersBenoît Peeters is a comics writer, novelist, and critic. He has lived in Belgium since 1978.His best-known work is Les Cités Obscures, an imaginary world which mingles a Borgesian metaphysical surrealism with the detailed architectural vistas of the series' artist, François Schuiten...
, French writer - Jean-Pierre WillemJean-Pierre WillemJean-Pierre Willem, born 24 May 1938 at Sedan , is a physician and founder of Médecins Aux Pieds Nus. He led numerous humanitarian missions to help victims of catastrophes and conflicts...
, French anthropologist and physician - Edgard PisaniEdgard PisaniEdgard Pisani was a French politician. He was born in Tunis and his parents were Maltese immigrants. He spent his childhood in Tunisia and later studied in Paris. Pisani holds a "licence de lettres" from La Sorbonne. His second marriage was with the daughter of André Le Troquer.He held positions...
, French politician - Dominique Ambiel, television producer and French politician
- Abd al Malik, French musician
- Loïc Decrauze, French author
- Alain LipietzAlain LipietzAlain Lipietz is a French engineer, economist and politician, a Member of the European Parliament, and a member of the French Green Party.-Education:...
, politician (EELV) and economist - Marc Blondel, trade unionist, secretary general of the CGT-Force working from 1989 to 2004
- Stephan-Xavier TranoStephan-Xavier TranoStephan-Xavier Trano is a French journalist, essayist and writer based in Chicago, Illinois.At 18, he signed his first articles in the newsweekly Le Nouvel Observateur, founded in 1950 by philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and former members of the French Resistance movement.He specialized first in...
, French journalist and essayist
Several politicians and French elected office-holders (MPs, mayors, senators etc.) also regularly contribute columns on AgoraVox.