A Citizen Journalism Primer
(2007) A Citizen Journalism Primer. In Proceedings Communications Policy Research Forum 2007, University of Technology Sydney.
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Abstract
Citizen journalism is a hot topic at present, but there remains a degree of conceptual wooliness about its definition and meaning, with everything from lifestyle blogs to live footage of freak weather events being included in this category. This paper will identify factors underpinning the emergence of citizen journalism, including the rise of Web 2.0, rethinking journalism as a professional ideology, the decline of ‘high modernist’ journalism, divergence between elite and popular opinion, changing revenue bases for news production, and the decline of deference in democratic societies. It will consider case studies such as the Korean OhMyNews web site, and connect these issues to wider debates about the implications of journalism and news production increasingly going into the Internet environment.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Status: | Published |
| Keywords: | citizen journalism, public spehre, user-created content, democratisation, dumbing down, celebrity journalism, blogging, media professionalism |
| Subjects: | 400000 Journalism, Librarianship and Curatorial Studies > 400100 Journalism, Communication and Media > 400104 Communication and Media Studies 400000 Journalism, Librarianship and Curatorial Studies > 400100 Journalism, Communication and Media > 400101 Journalism |
| ID Code: | 10232 |
| Deposited By: | Flew, Terry |
| Deposited On: | 19 October 2007 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://www.networkinsight.org/events/cprf07.html/group/6 |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2007 (please consult author) |