Mapping Citizen and Participatory Journalism in Newsrooms, Classrooms and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9780367437442 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 248 str.

Melissa Wall

Opis

Mapping Citizen and Participatory Journalism in Newsrooms, Classrooms and Beyond assesses citizen journalism within the context of hyperlocals, non-profits and large global news organizations, critically examining various forms of participation by citizen contributors to the news.

Spis treści

Introduction, 1. How participation is practiced by in-betweeners of journalism  2. Reciprocity and the hyper-local journalist  3.The social reporter in action; an analysis of the practice and discourse of Andy Carvin  4. Looking after Ibrahim; how journalists network, develop and safeguard relationships with citizen journalists and activists in Syria  5. Digital humanitarians; citizen journalists on the virtual front line of natural and human-caused disasters  6. Constructing cholera; CNN iReport, the Haitian cholera epidemic and the limits of citizen journalism  7. The Appropriation/Amplification Model of Citizen Journalism; an account of structural limitations and the political economy of participatory content creation  8. Citizen journalism at the margins  9. "Shared Photography"; (Photo)journalism and political mobilisation in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas  10. Helping Syrians tell their story to the world; training Syrian citizen journalists through connective journalism 11. Citizen health journalism; negotiating between political engagement and professional identity in a media training program for healthcare workers  12. From audience to reporter; recruiting and training community members at a participatory news site serving a multiethnic city  13. Training or improvisation? citizen journalists and their educational backgrounds—a comparative view

O autorze

Melissa Wall is a Professor of Journalism at California State University – Northridge, USA and the author of two previous books about citizen journalism, Citizen Journalism: Practices, Propaganda, Pedagogy, and the edited volume, Citizen Journalism: Valuable, Useless or Dangerous? She is the founder of the Pop-Up Newsroom, a temporary, virtual newsroom for citizen and student journalists.