Introduction: toward a (new) media literacy in a media saturated world / Dan Gillmor -- Journalism's evolution in the era of the active audience. Journalism, citizenship, and digital culture / Mark Deuze -- The citizen is the message: alternative modes of civic engagement / Zizi Papacharissi -- Institutional roadblocks: assessing journalism's response to changing audiences / Wilson Lowrey -- The public's relationship with digital content. Producing citizen journalism or producing journalism for citizens: a new multimedia model to enhance understanding of complex news / Ronald A. Yaros -- Information surplus in the digital age: impact and implications / Hsiang Iris Chyi -- Blogs, journalism and political participation / Homero Gil de Zúñiga

The many faced "you" of social media / Sharon Meraz -- The impact of the citizen as mass communicator. What the blogger knows / Donald Matheson -- "Searching for my own unique place in the story": a comparison of journalistic and citizen-produced coverage of Hurricane Katrina's anniversary / Sue Robinson -- Mapping citizen coverage of the dual city / Lou Rutigliano.