Gatewatching, not gatekeeping: Collaborative online news
Bruns, Axel (2003) Gatewatching, not gatekeeping: Collaborative online news. Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources, 107. pp. 31-44.
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Abstract
This article introduces a new form of collaborative web-based editing which has become increasingly popular in recent years. It involves web users as reporters and co- roducers for specialist news sites by allowing them to submit their own news reports and pointers to relevant articles elsewhere on the web, and sometimes even hands over editorial control to the online community altogether. Websites of this type move on from traditional journalistic gatekeeping approaches, where editors publish only what they regard as 'fit to print', to what is here termed gatewatching, where almost all incoming material is publicised, but with varying degrees of emphasis. Gatewatching sites frequently become major repositories of specialist information, turning into resource centre sites for their interest community, and are particularly common on the fringes of the open source software development movement. Some of these sites can be seen to directly apply open source ideals (direct involvement of the community, open access to all aspects of the development process) to the reporting of news, in effect making news itself an open source
| ID Code: | 189 |
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| Item Type: | Journal Article |
| Additional Information : | This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Please refer to the journal (link above) for access to the definitive, published version. |
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| Keywords : | Collaboration, web, based editing, Editorial control, Online communities, News reporting |
| ISSN: | 1329-878X |
| Subjects: | Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > LANGUAGES COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE (200000) > COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES (200100) > Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified (200199) |
| Divisions: | QUT Faculties and Divisions > Faculty of Creative Industries |
| Copyright Owner : | Copyright 2003 University of Queensland. |
| Deposited On: | 09 Jul 2004 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Jan 2009 03:15 |
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