"We Media, How audiences are shaping the future of news and information" written by Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis is a very comprehensive paper on the evolving participatory new media ecosystem. At all levels it provides orientation or in-depth analysis for bloggers, digital communities of practice or (citizen) journalists. There is a lot about building trust and credibility as the new currency of new media. It is a long, but very readable piece of work.

"Media futurists have predicted that by 2021, 'citizens will produce 50 percent of the news peer-to-peer.' Mainstream news media , however, have yet to meaningfully adopt or experiment with these new forms."

The U.S. Media Center has the vision "to be the global leader in providing intelligence and insight into the future role and use of media and enabling technology."