CITIZEN JOURNALISM
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- Author: MELISSA WALL
- ISBN: 9781138483156
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Citizen Journalism explores citizen
participation in the news as an evolving disruptive practice in digital
journalism. This volume moves beyond the debates over the mainstream news media
attempts to control and contain citizen journalism to focus attention in a
different direction: the peripheries of traditional journalism. Here, more
independent forms of citizen journalism, enabled by social media, are creating
their own forms of news.
Among the actors at the boundaries of the professional
journalism field the book identifies are the engaged citizen journalist and the
enraged citizen journalist. The former consists of under-represented voices
leading social justice movements, while the latter reflects the views of
conservatives and the alt-right, who often view citizen journalism as a
performance. Citizen Journalism further
explores how non-journalism arenas, such as citizen science, enable ordinary
citizens to collect data and become protectors of the environment.
Citizen
Journalism serves
as an important reminder of the professional field’s failure to effectively
respond to the changing nature of public communication. These changes have
helped to create new spaces for new actors; in such places, traditional as well
as upstart forms of journalism negotiate and compete, ultimately aiding the
journalism field in creating its future.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Citizen Journalism at the Margins
Chapter 2 Engaged Citizen Journalism
Chapter 3 Enraged Citizen Journalism
Chapter 4 Learning from Other Disciplines
Chapter 5 Schooling Citizen Journalists
Chapter 6 Conclusion