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The newspaper business---not that people around here look to hasten its demise---has folks that want to rip apart the model and reassemble it. "Don’t Mourn the Passing of Business Models" is a brief post from a Cato blog that says, bluntly, "The news business as we know it today is just a historical contingency and in no way essential to democracy or an informed society." (I love libertarian writers. In a jungle, they'd be the ones poking tigers.)

We have more media options than ever, except that less and less do they include print newspapers. So what to do with those media options?

What opportunities does a newspaperless future afford?

For those who take seriously the idea of creative destruction---that innovators destroy business structures in order to create something better---how do you envision reassembling the essential parts of a dismantled newspaper business? What would you do with the writers and editors? The foreign offices? The databases and sources?

Each of those is a valuable resource, to someone, in some way. So how would you re-use them---and ultimately increase their value---once their home newspapers cease printing?

Henry Jenkins: I do think that the concept of networked publics has a great deal to offer us in terms of identifying a way of addressing some of the concerns you raise here, but I also think you need to go into that realm with your eyes wide open.

Henry Jenkins: I do think that the concept of networked publics has a great deal to offer us in terms of identifying a way of addressing some of the concerns you raise here, but I also think you need to go into that realm with your eyes wide open.

Henry Jenkins: I do think that the concept of networked publics has a great deal to offer us in terms of identifying a way of addressing some of the concerns you raise here, but I also think you need to go into that realm with your eyes wide open.

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Dayna Cunningham: Thank you for reminding me that we are talking about institutions and cultures and politics and that media are nothing more than tools within these contexts. We need social organizations, not just technology. Drat. I was hoping for a quick fix.

Dayna Cunningham: Thank you for reminding me that we are talking about institutions and cultures and politics and that media are nothing more than tools within these contexts. We need social organizations, not just technology. Drat. I was hoping for a quick fix.

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Henry Jenkins: Thanks for this really rich provocation, Dayna. These are questions which we need to be discussing as a society and they should be central to our understanding of "civic media," "social media," whatever we want to call it.

Henry Jenkins: Thanks for this really rich provocation, Dayna. These are questions which we need to be discussing as a society and they should be central to our understanding of "civic media," "social media," whatever we want to call it.