Web journalism
Subtitle: a new form of citizenship?
By: edited by Sean Tunney and Garrett Monaghan.
Contributors: Monaghan, Garrett.; Tunney, Sean.
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Portland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9781845192785; 9781845192792
Subjects: Citizen journalism; Online journalism; User-generated content
Description: Provides a much-needed analytical account of the implications of interactive participation in the construction of media content. Although web journalism is a fast-changing technology this book will have sustained appeal to an international readership by seeking to critically assess Internet news production. ... With the rise of blogging and citizen journalism, it is a commonplace to observe that interactive participatory media are transforming the relationship between the traditional professional media and their audience. A current, popular, assumption is that the traditional flow of information from media to citizen is being reformed into a democratic dialog between members of a community. The editors and contributors analyze and debate this assumption through international case studies that include the United Kingdom and United States. ... While the text has been written and designed for undergraduate and postgraduate use, this book will be of use and of interest to all those engaged in the debate over Web reporting and citizen journalism.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene. News blogs, mainstream news and news agendas / Vincent Campbell ... [et al.]; title: Gotcha : how newsroom norms are shaping participatory journalism online / Neil Thurman and Alfred Hermida; title: We are not all journalists now / Gary Hudson and Mick Temple; title: The case against the democratic influence of the Internet on journalism / Tim Markham; title: Professional and citizen journalists. Blogging journalists : the writing on the wall / Paul Bradshaw; title: "An essential service in the life of the nation" / Kevin Marsh; title: Citizenship and public service: The case of BBC news online / Einar Thorsen, Stuart Allan and Cynthia Carter; title: Shut out but switched on : web forums, border identities and the evolving narrative of post-Devolution Wales / Simon Gwyn Roberts; title: Local voices : the regional press and user-generated content / Andy Price; title: Changing auntie : a case study in managing and regulating user-generated news content at the BBC / Janet Jones; title: A free market of ideas? the utility of citizen-generated content / Lian Zhu; title: The blog in Slovenian traditional journalism : gate-keeping, audience and citizenship / Igor Vobi; title: A study of journalistic and source transparency in US online newspaper and online citizen journalism articles / Serena Carpenter; title: The role of citizen journalism. Seeing the unseen : is new-media journalism reshaping questions of race? / Aaron Barlow and Annie Seaton; title: Citizen journalism online : promise of an alternative conflict discourse? / Dmitry Epstein and Dor Reich; title: Rehearsing democracy : new media, political freedoms and censorship in Uganda / Ryan Bowman; title: Facilitating participatory communication in China : an analysis of citizen journalists and media regulators in the Qiangguo forum and its discussions on income inequality / Quian Gong; title: Web-oriented public participation in contemporary China / Rena Bivens and Chen Li; title: Mainstream journalism. Online journalism : the changing media ecology from an Indian perspective / Saayan Chattopadhyay; title: Let's talk : how blogging is shaping the BBC's relationship with the public / Alfred Hermida; title: Online television : a threat to balanced political reporting? / Nicholas Jones.